120. The Unsolved Murder of Liz Barraza – Part 1
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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Summary
We examine the 2019 murder of Elizabeth “Liz” Barraza, who was shot and killed in her driveway in Tomball, Texas, while setting up for a garage sale. Mike Morford of the Criminology podcast joins us for this three-part series.
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| 0:00.0 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder. |
| 0:08.9 | Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children. |
| 0:12.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I'm joined by my colleagues. |
| 0:37.9 | Angela Serser. |
| 0:39.3 | Susan Costler, Drew. |
| 0:40.9 | Bob Drew. |
| 0:41.9 | And before we get started, I want to remind listeners, if you'd like early and add free |
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| 0:52.8 | We also have a Facebook fan page that was created by fans for fans of the consult where listeners can discuss our episodes and other true crime topics. |
| 1:04.0 | So today we are going to begin our analysis of the unsolved murder of Elizabeth or Liz Barraza on |
| 1:15.3 | January 25th of 2019 in Tombalt, Texas. And joining us for this case is the one and only |
| 1:23.9 | Mike Morford from the criminology podcast. Among others, you have many podcasts, |
| 1:30.6 | but you are involved in either being a host or producing a lot of other podcasts. So |
| 1:36.4 | anyway, it's great to have you here, Mike. Yeah, it's my pleasure to be here. And I know we've |
| 1:41.2 | interacted a little bit before this, so I'm very excited about this. |
| 1:45.4 | Yeah, I am too. And I don't know. Maybe I've mentioned this on the show. But the very first |
| 1:50.7 | podcast I ever listened to was criminology and your coverage of the Zodiac case. The first podcast ever. |
| 1:59.4 | So I've been listening to your show for a while when I first got |
| 2:02.8 | started. What I want to say, Mike, is that when, you know, I think everyone's experienced this |
| 2:08.9 | when you respect someone, you see their work, you respect their work, and you meet them in person, |
| 2:14.0 | sometimes you can be disappointed by that person. |
| 2:18.9 | But what I want to say is when we met at CrimeCon this past September, and you were so |
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