115 - The Houston Decapitator

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In the late summer of 1979 Houston was struck by a series of horrifying murders. Within a two month span, five people were killed in brutal fashion. The city was terrorized by an unknown killer, or possibly, more than one.

For forty-one years the mystery of the Houston Decapitator has haunted Houston police, and those who remember that summer of horror. For Alys Rankin, Mary Calcutta, Doris Threadgill, Joann Huffman and Robert Spangenberger, their lives were stolen from them and justice has remained as illusive as their killers.

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0:48.2	Alice Rankin asked a co-worker if he could give her a ride
0:51.4	to work the next morning.
0:53.0	Her car would be in the shop.
0:55.3	When he arrived, he found Alice in her bed.
0:58.3	The victim of a brutal and grizzly murder.
1:01.2	She had been decapitated and her head was missing.
1:05.0	Two weeks later to the day, Mary Palcato
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