Crude ACTS: A True Crime Podcast
Crude Acts: Texas True Crime is an investigative no bater podcast that focuses on crimes that occurred in and around 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.
Episodes
31 episodes
Houston Mass Murders - The Syndicate - Part 4
In this episode of Crude Acts, host Jen Schaffer uncovers the disturbing story of Houston music producer Roy C. Ames—a man whose career in Texas blues and R&B masked a massive child-exploitation network operating in the shadows of the 1960s...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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35:08
Houston Mass Murders - The Syndicate Part 3
This is a Texas True Crime case that goes beyond time and place. Before Epstein there were men sex trafficking throughout the US and some believe serial Killer Dean Corll was apart of it. This is the syndicate part 3 of our deep div...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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46:12
Houston Mass Murders - The Syndicate - Part 2
Sex trafficking didn't start with Jeffery Epstein. We’re moving on to part 2 of the series within the series called The Syndicate. These episodes are about the epidemic of boy exploitation in the 1970 and 80s. In this episode we look at Texas t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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47:33
Houston Mass Murders - The Syndicate - Part 1
Sex trafficking didn't start with Jeffery Epstein. In this episode we kick off our delve into the theory that serial killer Dean Corll and his duo of apprentices - Elmer Wayne Henley Jr and David Brooks, were killing as a part of a nationwide s...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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53:19
Houston Mass Murders - Criminology
Trying to understand serial killers is a tall order. 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...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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44:23
The Houston Mass Murders - Identification
True crime has a profound impact on the victims and their families. On this episode we talk about what it took to identify the many victims of the candy man case. The important scientists, like Dr. Sharon Derrick, who helped identify them and t...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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32:26
The Houston Mass Murders - The Lost Boys 2
In the true crime series we are talking about serial killer Dean Corll and the Houston mass Murders. Who were his victims, The Lost Boys of the Houston Mass Murders? The 29 victims of serial killer Dean Corll and his murdering apprentices. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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38:44
The Houston Mass Murders - The Lost Boys 1
Who were the victims of serial killer Dean Coll? 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. This is part one of an examination.
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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31:05
The Houston Mass Murders - Who's The Candyman - Dean Corll?
Texas True Crime about 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 wi...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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38:28
The Houston Mass Murders - Season Premiere
This is a true crime case that rocked Houston, Texas in the 1970s. It's The Houston Mass Murders - A Serial Killer known as The Candy Man, Dead Corll, who...along with his two apprentices David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. killed an upward...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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31:31
The Houston Mass Murders - Prologue The Candyman
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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6:00
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 10
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. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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46:20
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 9
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 tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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45:35
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy - Hurricane Beryl Episode
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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Season 2
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Episode 801
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45:18
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 8
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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46:07
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 7
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 wer...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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39:53
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 6
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 cl...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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33:05
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 5
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 h...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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36:01
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 4
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 ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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35:29
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 3
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 abo...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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35:46
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 2
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 thei...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:32
Who Killed Debbie and Sandy? Part 1
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, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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30:15
Murder in an Oil Town - Houston Mass Murders - Part 1
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 ser...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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31:31
Murder in an Oil Town - The Tourniquet Killer
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 th...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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33:02
Murder in an Oil Town - Bill List
Wealthy man Bill List gets more than he bargained for after picking up teenage boys off the Montrose Strip for his own sadistic carnal desires. The boys he abused instead turned on him and gave him a taste of his own medicine and it all happene...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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33:08