Crude ACTS
We are a TEXAS TRUE CRIME PODCAST that focuses on crimes that occurred in the Lone Star State. On our episodes we shoot it straight: no banter, no jokes, no deviation from the story, just journalistic storytelling with exposition, interviews, and a focus on the facts.
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In this episode of The Houston Mass Murders we explore criminology and the Serial Killers Apprentices - Elmer Wayne Henley Junior and David Owen Brooks.
Dean Corll, the John Wayne Gacy of the south was killed by Henley, leaving the responsibility for what happened on the boys left behind. How culpable were they? And how should we look at them now that we understand grooming and the power of abuse.
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On this episode we talk about what it took to identify the many victims of this case. The important scientists, like Dr. Sharon Derrick, who helped identify them and the closure she gave to many of the families. We will also talk about Lise Olsen's book, The Scientist and the Serial Killer and new facts that have emerged through her research.
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On this episode we will continue talking about the victims of the Houston Mass murders.
Next up… a live episode from the Beyond the Crime Podcast convention.
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In this episode we will go over The Lost Boys of the Houston Mass Murders. The 29 victims of serial killer Dean Corll and his murdering apprentices.
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On this season of Crude Acts we'll be diving into the seedy underworld of missing and exploited children and what happens when they fall into the wrong hands. On this first episode we're picking back up the Dean Corll story. This serial killer along with his two accomplices committed the Houston Mass Murders where 29 young boys and men lost their lives.
Episode one will be a re-release of the last episode of...
This is a re-release of Season 1 episode 9 about The Houston Mass Murders and the Serial Killer Candy Man, Dead Corll, who...along with his two apprentices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. killed an upwards of 29 young boys and young men.
This kicks off the season and from here we dig in to the story.
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On this episode we dive into The Candy Man - Dean Corll. How did this quiet, mild mannered man become one of the most notorious serial killers in America? What were the signs? How did he convince teen boys to do his bidding and how did he get away with killing so many boys right under everyone's noses?
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Loose ends are tied up in this episode of Crude Acts. New names are brought to the forefront. Old leads are brought back to the surface. They all converge in a story that exposes a web of illegal activity that runs deeper than Texas well.
Have a listen to this last episode and see if you can piece together who you believe killed Debbie and Sandy.
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This is episode 9 of season 2 of Crude Acts - Who Killed Debbie and Sandy, a true crime series. In this episode we dig deeper into some connected stories of alleged illegal narcotics smuggling. We follow that story with how it appears that Chambers County Sheriffs Office has been unwilling to investigate the case and why we assume that is the case.
We're getting close to the end, a two part season fina...
On this special episode of Crude Acts we go over how in Texas, Oil and Politics go hand in hand.
And sometimes oil, politics, and illegal narcotics converge to create a storm like no other.
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While trying to figure out who killed Debbie and Sandy we've had to do a deep dive into the illegal narcotics scene in Baytown Texas during the 1980s. We already went over the network of men who were connected to the women so we decided in this episode to go over the scene itself, the outlaws who provided the party favors to cultivate this scene. Come to find out there are other members of law enforcement who we...
This is the 7th installment of the Who Killed Debbie and Sandy series. In this episode we continue picking apart a confession given to police posthumously to Bobby Jarvis' death. The report claims Jarvis was there when the women were killed and he claimed Bob Bass and his brother did it.
But...was the known con artist Bobby Jarvis telling the truth? Or was this report one of his many lies he perpetua...
Welcome back to Crude Acts - Who Killed Debbie and Sandy, and thank you for joining us as we continue to dive into the mystery of their deaths . On this episode you're going to hear another police report, a shocking confession by someone who claimed to know what happened. Will we find answers in it or just more questions
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This is our 5th episode in our series about the homicide cold case of Debbie Merritt and Sandy Terrell. In the episode we will uncover more police reports, one with an informant and another with a person of interest. What did they have to say and where did it lead the case? Tune in for answers.
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In episode 4 of this true crime series we continue to dive into the leads and suspects. Names of local politicians and businessmen are talked about in their relation to a network that the victims seemed to be tied to. More police reports are examined, all to answer the question… who killed Debbie and Sandy?
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This is the 3rd episode in our series about the unsolved murder of Sandy Terrell and Debbie Merritt that occurred in Baytown, Texas in 1985. We are now beginning to dig into the persons of interest and the suspects. So hang on tight!!! It’s about to get cray.
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This is the second episode about the unsolved murder case of Debra Merritt and Sandra Terrell. It’s titled Beyond the Headlines.
On this true crime episode we will talk about who the women were, where they were from and delve into their backgrounds. You’ll come to discover these women were loved and are still missed and that they are more than just a homicide case file and the headlines that described them.
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Two Baytown Texas women, Debbie Merritt and Sandy Terrell, disappeared while on their way on a weekend getaway on November 5th 1985. Two years later, in 1987, their bodies were discovered in Chambers County marshland. They were both murdered, and to this day, the case remains unsolved.
Follow us here at Crude Acts as we and Retired Detective Paul Schaffer re-examine the case. Trying our best to investigate ...
The Houston Mass Murders occurred during the years 1970-1973. A trio of serial killers David Brooks, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr, and a man known as The Candy Man - Dean Corll, were responsible for 29 murders of boys and young men. In this 6 part series we’re going delve into what happened, who the killers were, who the victims were, and how where and why this atrocity even happened.
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In Houston Texas in the 1980s and 90s people were on high alert. There was a serial killer abducting and killing young women and girls dumping their bodies in the remote fields off I45 known as the Texas Killing Fields. Little did we know at the time there were more killers in the midst. Bodies started turning up behind restaurants and convenience stores with one signature thing in common. All of these victims were ki...
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