True Crime Reporter

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January 18, 2022 A Woman's Head Is Found Floating In A Lake...Who Did It?
When a woman’s head bobbed to the surface on Lake Waco in Central Texas no one had the slightest clue about who she was or how she died.
An autopsy revealed that she had been decapitated and there was no sign of the rest of her body in the lake.
As veteran Texas Ranger John Aycock began to learn more about the woman’s life (profilers call it victimology), he declared the likely identity of the murder suspect.
Now he just had to prove it.
They call it a “Rangers Intuition” developed from years of investigating homicides in rural Texas and questioning killers.
Former U.S. prosecutor Bill Johnston and investigative reporter Robert Riggs explain how Ranger Aycock “got his man” in this episode of True Crime Reporter™ Confidential.
Note: You can read more about the history of the legendary Texas Rangers and see vintage photos on our blog at True Crime Reporter™.
For official historical information visit the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum online or in-person at the museum in Waco, Texas.
Please join us in supporting the 2023 Texas Ranger Bicentennial.
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22 min
January 10, 2022 Protect Your Self From Sexual Predators - Have A Plan Because They Do
When you hear about violent crime, do you think to yourself, “it would never happen to me?”
When 29-year old Colleen Reed went to a self-service car wash in Austin, Texas none of her family or friends thought it would be the last time they would see her.
Reed never imagined that serial killer Kenneth McDuff was stalking her.
McDuff is featured in the first season of True Crime Reporter™ and our story is being turned into a tv series for a major streaming channel scheduled for release in the Spring of 2022.
Bill Johnston and I want you to understand that it can happen to you, because “they walk among us.”
Sexual predators and killers don’t present themselves in a demonic manner and are not easy to recognize or avoid.
“They walk among us” means that people who might hurt us may be unrecognizable as a threat.
More often than not they are people we see in public, go to school with, date, live with, or strangers who appear trustworthy.
In our earlier episode about the teenage girl who was rescued from her kidnappers by Texas Rangers, the ring leader of the abduction was the father of one of her school classmates.
If you were ordered to get into a car and threatened if you didn’t, what would you do?
In this episode of True Crime Reporter™ Confidential retired homicide detective David Thorton is here to explain how and why violent criminal actors target their victims and how victims' behavior may contribute to their vulnerability.
Thornton was a guest in our earlier episode about cold cases. More than 100 homicide cold cases were solved in part because of Thornton's efforts with the Fort Worth, Texas police department.
We are going to talk about the lessons in Thornton’s book, Have A Plan… Because They Do.
We want to be your favorite true crime podcast.
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44 min
January 10, 2022 Protect Your Self From Sexual Predators – Have A Plan… Because They Do
When you hear about violent crime, do you think to yourself, “it would never happen to me?”
When 29-year-old Colleen Reed went to a self-service car wash in Austin, Texas, none of her family or friends thought it would be the last time they saw her.
Reed never imagined that serial killer Kenneth McDuff was stalking her.
McDuff is featured in the first season of True Crime Reporter®.
I want you to understand that it can happen to you because “they walk among us.”
Sexual predators and killers don’t present themselves in a demonic manner and are not easy to recognize or avoid.
“They walk among us” means that people who might hurt us may be unrecognizable as a threat.
More often than not, they are people we see in public, go to school with, date, live with, or strangers who appear trustworthy.
In our earlier episode about the teenage girl who was rescued from her kidnappers by Texas Rangers, the ring leader of the abduction was the father of one of her school classmates.
What would you do if you were ordered to get into a car and threatened if you didn’t?
Retired homicide detective David Thorton explains how and why violent criminal actors target their victims and how victims' behavior may contribute to their vulnerability.
49 min
January 03, 2022 Surrounded By Psychopaths With Author Thomas Erikson
After listening to our episodes about serial killer Kenneth McDuff, you have no doubt that McDuff is what FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood described as a textbook psychopath.
But it’s not only criminals that are psychopaths.
CEOs of major corporations, politicians, and entertainers score high on the checklist of psychopathic behavior.
Think about your work colleagues or social circle.
Is your boss a narcissistic manipulator with no remorse?
Do you know someone who takes pleasure in hurting others and easily lies?
Thomas Erikson reveals how psychopaths surround us.
They may not physically threaten our lives, but they can emotionally destroy them.
In this episode, investigative reporter Robert Riggs talks to Erikson about his book Surrounded by Psychopaths and how we can protect ourselves from them.
1 hr 4 min
December 27, 2021 Best of True Crime Reporter® 2021 – Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff
In this “Best Of True Crime Reporter®”, we take you back to the first episode in our series about serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.
It was a Webby Award Honoree for Best True Crime Podcast in 2021.
McDuff is the only criminal in Texas history to have received three death sentences.
Serial Killer Kenneth Allen McDuff is being escorted to a holding cell in the Texas Death Chamber. McDuff was believed to be the only condemned inmate in the nation ever paroled and then returned to death row for two more murders. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1966 for killing Robert Brand, one of three teenagers he was charged with randomly killing. But McDuff was later paroled after the death penalty was overturned. He was sentenced in two different cases to die by lethal injection for the murders of Melissa Northrup and Colleen Reed. McDuff was executed shortly after this photograph was taken on November 17, 1998.
Yet he got out of prison under a cloud of corruption after murdering three teenagers.
An FBI profiler, the late Roy Hazelwood, described McDuff to me as the Great White Shark of serial killers.
Yet most people have never heard of McDuff.
28 min
December 27, 2021 "Best of True Crime Reporter™ 2021" -- Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff
In this “Best Of True Crime Reporter™”, we take you back to the first episode in our series about serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.
It was a Webby Award Honoree for Best True Crime Podcast in 2021.
McDuff is the only criminal in Texas history to have received three death sentences.
Yet he got out of prison under a cloud of corruption after murdering three teenagers.
An FBI profiler, the late Roy Hazelwood, described McDuff to me as the Great White Shark of serial killers.
Yet most people have never heard of McDuff.
But an audience around the globe is about to learn the grizzly details of a sexual sadistic serial killer.
We are producing a five-part documentary series called “Freed To Kill” about McDuff with Big Media TV for a major streaming channel.
I rounded up homicide investigators, victims’ family members, and other reporters that you don’t hear from in this podcast.
It’s a deep look inside the mind of a serial killer and the dedication of law officers that were determined to put McDuff back behind bars.
With that said, here’s a reminder that this is not for the faint of heart.
We want to be your favorite true crime podcast.
Please recommend us to your friends and leave a review wherever you listen.
Join our True Crime Community to receive updates and bonus episodes.
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True Crime Reporter™ is a copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.

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26 min
December 20, 2021 The Devil Lovers- The Satanic Cult of Murder & Meth
What is it about Waco, Texas?
A whirlwind of bizarre events and violence seems to dump all sorts of strange creatures into Central Texas.
Whether it is serial killers on the hunt for victims or the Branch Davidian Cult ending in a fiery inferno, it spins out true crime stories that are stranger than fiction.
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs and former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston have been deeply involved in all of them.
In the previous episode called Murder, Mayhem, and Meth, they talked about violent meth kingpins who controlled the manufacture and distribution of “speed” during the 1980s in Texas.
Now it’s about to get really weird with the story of devil lovers who set up a factory to make methamphetamines.
In a weekly ritual, the devil lovers would prick their fingers and drip blood on the pages of an open Bible.
You won’t believe what happened next.
40 min
December 20, 2021 The Devil Lovers - The Satanic Cult of Meth & Murder
What is it about Waco, Texas?
A whirlwind of bizarre events and violence seems to dump all sorts of strange creatures into Central Texas.
Whether it is serial killers on the hunt for victims or the Branch Davidian Cult ending in a fiery inferno, it spins out true crime stories that are stranger than fiction.
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs and former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston have been deeply involved in all of them.
In the previous episode called Murder, Mayhem, and Meth, they talked about violent meth kingpins who controlled the manufacture and distribution of “speed” during the 1980s in Texas.
Now it’s about to get really weird with the story of devil lovers who set up a factory to make methamphetamines.=
In a weekly ritual, the devil lovers would prick their fingers and drip blood on the pages of an open Bible.
You won't believe what happened next.
We want to be your favorite true crime podcast.
Please recommend us to your friends and leave a review wherever you listen.
Join our True Crime Community to receive updates and bonus episodes.
Click Here To Sign Up.
Follow True Crime Reporter™ on social media:
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Instagram
LinkedIn
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True Crime Reporter™ is a copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
37 min
December 15, 2021 Murder, Mayhem, & Meth — Breaking Bad In Texas
If you were a Breaking Bad TV series fan, get ready to listen to the actual version in Texas.
The TV series featured a fictional high school chemistry teacher named Walter White, diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor who manufactures high-grade meth to put away cash for his family’s future.
It is not far from the truth.
During the 1980s, Central and East Texas were dotted with illicit meth labs set up in remote farmhouses.
But these “Walter White” meth kingpins typically became addicted to their own chemical product and turned super paranoid.
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs and former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston flashback to the notorious trade and violence it brought to the badlands of Texas.
42 min
December 13, 2021 Murder, Mayhem, & Meth -- The Real Breaking Bad In Texas Badlands
Murder Mayhem & Meth -- The Real Life Breaking Bad In Texas
If you were a fan of the Breaking Bad TV series, get ready to listen to the real version in Texas.
The TV series featured a fictional high school chemistry teacher named Walter White diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor who manufactures high-grade meth in order to put away cash for his family’s future.
It is not far from the truth.
During the 1980s, Central and East Texas were dotted with illicit meth labs set up in remote farmhouses.
But these “Walter White” meth kingpins typically became addicted to their own chemical product and turned super paranoid.
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs and former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston flashback to the notorious trade and violence it brought to the badlands of Texas in this episode of True Crime Reporter™ Confidential.
Our true crime stories are stranger than fiction especially this one about Murder, Mayhem, & Meth.
We want to be your favorite true crime podcast.
Please recommend us to your friends and leave a review wherever you listen.
Join our True Crime Community to receive updates and bonus episodes.
Click Here To Sign Up.

Follow True Crime Reporter™ on social media:
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LinkedIn
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True Crime Reporter™ is a copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
37 min