Crimes of a Decade, A Texas True Crime Podcast
Everything is bigger in Texas, and so is its true crime. Each season we will go back in time to a decade and highlight a male and female murderer for those years. Season 1 covers 2000-2009. Season 2 covers 1970-1979. Season 3 covers 1930-1939.
Episodes
Frank Xu had two trials and was found guilty twice for the murder of his wife.
I interview someone who was on the jury of his second trial.
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Resources:
https://casetext.com/case/xu-v-state
https://casetext.com/case/xu-v-state-2
2 felons and their girlfriends make a plan to rob people and kill to get their money.
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.V/v1/varga-kevin-scott.htm
Part 2 of the Texas Prison System and the fight between Frances Jalet, Ted Cruz and Texas Prisons
Resources:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/love-story-upended-texas-prison-system/
https://borgenproject.org/norways-prison-system/
The prison system in Texas is very flawed... and always has been.
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Resources:
https://casetext.com/case/ortiz-v-state-89
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/love-story-upended-texas-prison-system/
Minisode episode this week, regular episodes will continue next week!
Do drugs make people violent or do dangerous people on drugs create the violence?
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mccarthy-kimberly.htm
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/mccarthy1338.htm
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/adult-addiction-treatment-programs/most-addictive<...
A jewelry Dealer tries to make a lot of money quick, and killed to get it.
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dennes-reinaldo.htm
https://mycrimelibrary.com/reinaldo-dennes-texas-death-row/
Was Susan Hey an angel of mercy?
What are your thoughts on assisted suicide?
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hey-susan.htm
https://time.com/5179977/assisted-suicide-couple-death/
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/opinion/maynard-assisted-suicide-cancer-dignity/index.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/...
Warning- this episode deals with child death.
Hilton Crawford got in lots of debt and cooked up a scheme that ended in a child's death.
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Resources:
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/crawford861.htm
https://www.missingkids.org/education/kidsmartz
newspapers.com
Murder/Suicide destroys a Grand Prairie, Texas family
Warning* contains child death
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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/02/03/Texas-fire-deaths-ruled-murder-suicide/2461791787600/
http://jaapl.org/content/37/3/371
https://vpc.org/studies/amroul2020.pd...
A violent upbringing brings destruction in its wake.
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a1/amador-john-joe.htm
https://casetext.com/case/amador-v-dretke
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-287-use-hypnosis-purpose
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2...
Two women, who live 15 miles from each other, both say their husbands were killed by an intruder, 3 days apart.
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Two Texas mall shootings that took innocent lives.
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Resources:
FBI Video: https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/office-of-partner-engagement/active-shooter-resources
Newspapers.com
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/crime/video-released-from-2017-fatal-shooting-as-part-of-lawsuit-against-rolling-oaks-mall/273-86...
A mother gets upset over a teenage breakup.
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Resources:
newspapers.com
https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cisneros-dora.htm
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/everything-to-know-about-mexican-folk-healing/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/294833063.pdf
A guilty man sends an innocent man to death row for 12 years part 2
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Resources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/carter-robert-earl.htm
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/graves-anthony.htm
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/innocence-found/
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/innocence-los...
A guilty man sends an innocent man to death row for 12 years
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https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/carter-robert-earl.htm
https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/graves-anthony.htm
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/innocence-found/
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/innocence-lost/
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Melissa Lucio is set to be executed April 27, 2022 please listen to the episode on her from the Women and Crime Podcast and then please sign the petition to stop this execution!
Women and Crime Podcast Episode:
https://womenandcrimepodcast.com/melissa-lucio/
Ways to help:
https://innocenceproject.org/who-is-melissa-lucio-death-penalty-texas-execution-innocent/
17 year old hates her dad and gets her boyfriend to kill him.
If you have an adopted child or thinking of adopting, please check out these links below:
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
The Harvard Center for the Developing Child
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychiatrist Finder
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The youngest person to be arrested for murder in Bexar County.
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Resources:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-prisoner/
https://www.pbs.org/filmfestival/films/edwin
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2019/10/02/nearly-30-years-after-murder-conviction-man-begins-quest-for-new-life
https://juve...
Texas Cheerleader mom murder for hire
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-cheerleader-murder-plot/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/daughter-of-cheerleader-mom-breaks-20-year-silence/
http://cheer.epicsports.com/cheerleading-history.html
https://www.pzsc.pl/eng/3,History_of_ch...
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