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Podcast: Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Episode: Lou Allen Goettsch Part 2 of 2: Big Country Bones
Description: In late 1993, after Roney Dean Harper’s confession to the murder of Lou Goettsch, discoveries of human bones seemed to be commonplace in the Big County, an area of Texas of which Abilene is the heart. With every set of remains unearthed, detectives with the Abilene Police Department, an agency that had no jurisdiction over any of the discoveries, sat tight and waited for the identification of one of their missing people. At the top of that list was Lou Goettsch, since Harper’s admission had heated the case back up. Neither the Big Country bones nor Roney Dean Harper gave...