Introducing: The Brothers Ortiz

The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. 

Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Campsid Media and iHeart Podcast comes a new true
crime podcast hosted by me Sean Flynn.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's birds right here, and the house is going to
be able to laugh, but drive slowly because it may
maintains in the last thirty years.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is Gabriel Ortiz Gabe. He's a cop. In fact,
he's one of the highest ranking law enforcement officers in
the entire state of Texas region Chief Texas Department of
Public Safety. We're looking for a house. It could have been.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay, go up a little further.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I think it's We're in Brazoria County. It's on the
Gulf Coast, south of Houston.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I want to say that was.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Two oh four. I think this is it. Yeah, We've
stopped in front of a beat up little bungalow on
a street of other beat up little bungalows. This one's
a greenish yellow, the color of an over boiled egg yolk,
and there's a fat stripe of mold near the foundation.
We're staring at it as if it's a clue, as

(01:05):
if some grimy secret might come leaking out of it. Nothing,
that's okay, because this isn't surveillance. It's not part of
an ongoing criminal investigation. Instead, Gabe is doing some historical reconnaissance.
He's retracing the steps of a criminal he used to know.
Not a bad guy, just one who did a lot

(01:28):
of things over a lot of years that weren't legal.
He was kind of a big deal in Missouri County
in some circles anyway. And he was shot to death
in January of twenty twenty three. His name was Larry Ortiz,
and he used to live in this little house Gabe
did too. Larry was Gabe's brother. The who of the

(01:50):
murder has been solved. The man who pulled the trigger
has already pleaded guilty and been sent to prison. But
still this might be the most difficult case of Gabe's
career because of the question it raises. How did two
brothers raised by the same parents in the same place
at roughly the same time end up leading such fundamentally

(02:10):
different lives. For years, Gave believed he knew why, believed
he knew the reasons everything happened the way it did,
and he believed he knew Larry. But everyone keeps secrets.

(02:31):
This season on The Brothers are Teas, I guess you
can kind of say, the whole street world opened up
to him with me at all opened up to him.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Don't you ever fucking do that in front of me again.
He's like, bro, He's like, we just we're just out
here hustling.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
When we started making it, the money was coming in.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Bought a car for everybody, bought the house you only
he shot and almost killed him money and you're just
now telling me this.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
He was the head of this gang and nobody was
going to tell him what to do. My dad had
a whole another life that we never knew about.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
All his much shots would always come up every time
I would google his knee. Things were not going to
be the same. Things were going to start changing. And
maybe this is the spiritual side of me felt like,
did he know that his time was coming to an end?

Speaker 1 (03:20):
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