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Hosted by Jen Schaffer · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 33 episodes
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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.
Jen Schaffer hosts Crude ACTS: A True Crime Podcast, a true crime show with 33 episodes published.
Before cartel violence dominated headlines, a powerful criminal empire was operating in plain sight along the Texas-Mexico border. In this episode of Crude Acts, we examine the rise of the Chagra brothers—Jimmy, Joe, and
In 1976, a gunman walked through the largest privately-owned home in the United States and shot four people. Two of them died. The man charged was T. Cullen Davis — heir to a Texas oil fortune, one of the wealthiest men
Houston true crime. A contract killing. A rigged trial. And the most dangerous defense attorney in Texas. In 1968, Alan Berg — a Houston carpet salesman — was lured to the parking lot of the Brass Jug on Sin Alley, force
Crude Acts digs into Thomas Thompson’s landmark true crime book Blood and Money, the 1976 bestseller that shocked Texas. Host Jen Schaffer investigates the Joan Robinson Hill case: a suspicious death, a grieving father w
True Crime deep dive into Dean Corll and his connections to a wider crime Syndicate is wrapped up in this episode. Next season will be out soon!!
Epstein files illegal activity is nothing new. Our examination of the Syndicate proves it. In this episode we talk about Serial Killer Dean Corll's victim Jeff Konen on our search to find proof of whether or not the Cand
Send us a text The true crime genre has been diving deep into the world of sex trafficking and discovering it has lineages, that it existed well before Epstein and his associates. Serial Killer Dean Corll's victims in re
Send us a text 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 op
Send us a text 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 syndi
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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, w
Send us a text 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.
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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 Co
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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 th
Send us a text 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
Send us a text 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 t
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