Of Hell: Texas True Crime

In February 1995, El Paso, Texas woke to a nightmare unlike anything the city had ever seen. Over the course of five days, twenty-one body parts appeared across both Texas and New Mexico, found in culverts, cardboard boxes, roadside blankets, even dumpsters. Each piece belonged to the same woman. Each had been dismembered with exacting precision. And each was coated in a metallic silver-blue paint...

In the final chapter of the Johnny Meadows saga, we examine what happened after his 1972 conviction, and how a decision by the Texas parole board allowed him to walk free decades later. Following years of failed lawsuits, appeals, and parole denials, Meadows was quietly released due to prison overcrowding. In 1993, he resurfaced in Houston, posing as an attorney to lure vulnerable women with false...

Johnny Emanuel Meadows is finally in custody, and for the first time in years, law enforcement believes they may be closing in on answers. After being arrested in Aztec, New Mexico, Meadows leads authorities to the remains of Gloria Sue Green, whose body is discovered hidden beneath a mattress in a shallow wash near an Odessa school. Charged with her murder, Meadows quickly becomes the center of a...

On June 17, 1971, 26-year-old Gloria Sue Green vanished from her desk at O&L Well Service on Odessa’s busy Kermit Highway. Her purse, shoes, and open ledger were left behind, frozen in time. A single mother known for her reliability, Gloria had no reason to walk away — and within hours, deputies feared she’d been taken. Witnesses confirmed she was calmly working as late as 2:30 p.m. Thirty min...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Odessa, Texas was a city shaped by oil booms, long nights, and quiet routines, routines that suddenly became dangerous. When 24-year-old barmaid and young mother Linda Lee Cougot vanished from a West Odessa laundromat in October 1968, police were left with an eerie scene and no witnesses. Weeks later, her body was discovered in a remote pasture northwest of town,...

In Part Three of Slayer Saint, the investigation closes in on Tommy Ray Kneeland as detectives uncover the brutal truth behind the murders of Oklahoma teenagers Mary Jane Handy and Robert Gholson. What began as a runaway road trip ended in a secluded Fort Worth killing ground, where the pair were bound, stabbed, and left for dead. Years later, Kneeland's arrest for another crime cracked the case o...

This episode revisits the quiet West Texas town of Kermit, where 27-year-old Nancy Siler Mitchell vanished from her home on a September night in 1970. What began as a baffling disappearance unfolded into a grim, years-long investigation marked by false leads, scattered evidence, and growing fears of a serial predator operating across the Permian Basin. As law enforcement struggled to connect the d...

In April 1974, 16-year-old Danita Ann Cash drove to the abandoned Trinity River Bridge, better known in local lore as "Screaming Bridge," to pick up her brother from target practice. But instead of finding the boys, she encountered a stranger with a shotgun who forced his way into her car. What began as a routine favor turned into a harrowing abduction attempt that Danita survived only through cou...

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