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Into The Dark

167. The Pizza Hut Murder

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

True Crime

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Payton dives into the case of Nancy DePriest. What began as a normal shift alone at Pizza Hut quickly spiraled into something far more sinister. Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderwithmyhusband Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/murderwithmyhusband NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.com Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Twitch: twitch.tv/throatypie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paytonmorelandshow/ Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbh-B5Or9CT8Hutw1wfYqQ Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327 Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7 Case Sources: LA Times - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-21-me-confess21-story.html   The National Registry of Exonerations - https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/10386  ABC News - https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131312&page=1  CATO Institute - https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2017/price-injustice#  Innocence Project - https://innocenceproject.org/cases/richard-danziger/  Bluhm Legal Clinic - https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/tx/christopher-ochoa.html  WV Innocence Project - https://wvinnocenceproject.law.wvu.edu/innocence-project-blog/our-voices/2018/09/24/the-guilty-plea-problem-by-threat-of-lethal-injection   The Marshall Project - https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/03/09/facing-her-daughter-s-killer-at-last  Salon - https://www.salon.com/2000/10/31/ochoa/  https://www.salon.com/2000/10/13/texas_10/  Justia U.S. Law - https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/third-court-of-appeals/1991/4881.html   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Ono Media podcast.

0:03.0

Hey, everyone, and welcome back to the Into the Dark podcast.

0:05.7

I'm your host, Peyton Morland.

0:06.6

I'm so glad you are here listening.

0:08.7

If you are watching, yes, my face is super shiny.

0:11.7

I'm incredibly dry and I have like 10 layers of moisturizer on.

0:15.8

So yeah, I'm not sweating or anything.

0:18.4

I'm just trying to heal my skin. Getting into my 10 seconds today,

0:24.6

it was like snowing two days ago. And then today it is super warm, warm enough that I was like hot

0:32.2

when I was outside. So I'm super confused. Utah always has such temperamental weather. And I swear we go through all four seasons in like one week. So that's currently what I'm going through. I hope you all are having an amazing week. And let's get into today's episode.

0:49.3

There is a theme that you see in true crime stories time and time again. It's that you never really know what a person is capable of.

0:58.0

A friendly, kind neighbor could secretly be a brutally violent criminal.

1:04.0

And a quiet, shy teenager might secretly be strong enough to fight off a vicious attack. Or a seemingly happy couple might just have deadly secrets.

1:16.6

The point is, it's hard to say what's really going on in someone else's mind.

1:20.6

And if you make an assumption and it's wrong, that can come with consequences,

1:26.6

which is a pretty big theme in today's case,

1:30.6

the story of Nancy DePriest.

1:34.7

Now, we're backing up to 1988 when Nancy was 20 years old.

1:41.6

She lived in Austin, Texas, and she worked at a local pizza hut.

1:46.1

Now, Nancy was young, but she was also already really responsible. She was actually already a

1:52.7

married mother with a daughter who was just over a year old, and Nancy was still really close

1:58.6

with her parents. She cared about her family and about doing her job well.

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