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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: "Free to Kill" The Release of Serial Killers from Texas Death Row
Description:
A violent crime wave swept across Texas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You could pick up the newspaper any day or turn on the television anywhere, Houston, Dallas, particularly Houston, and the lead story was a stranger on stranger crime, horrific violence.
A Houston mother was pulled out of her car by her hair women at a busy intersection by ex-cons looking for a full tank of gas.Â
They executed her and ran over her body as they drove away in her car with a full tank of gas.
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