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Corpus Delicti

229: Case Closed: Roy McCaleb

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Roy McCaleb was shot in his own bedroom at 10pm. His wife says that an intruder came into the house and shot him, after he had violently assaulted her. The more digging investigators do, the more things don't add up. But it would be over 20 years until the case is resolved.

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

Harris Co. grand jury indicts woman in husband's 1985 death (chron.com)

Prosecutor: Houston woman changed story in 1985 death (chron.com)

'Black Widow' convicted in 1985 slaying featured on national TV (chron.com)

Woman, 66, charged in 23-year-old murder case (chron.com)

Hints of a darker past for widow charged in '85 death (chron.com)

Alzheimer's Patient, 71, Gets Six Months for Murder - ABC News (go.com)

The State of Texas v. CAROLYN SUE KRIZAN-WILSON--Appeal from 177th District Court of Harris County :: 2010 :: Texas Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District Decisions :: Texas Case Law :: Texas Law :: US Law :: Justia

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone's Jen.

0:24.9

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.2

And welcome back to Corpus Bliky the podcast.

0:28.7

We are still head into this cold case series.

0:32.9

Every time we think that we are going to cut the series, more just pops up.

0:37.4

Yeah, we're way ahead right now.

0:39.4

We have several outlines on deck ready to go. So when we say, y'all are probably like,

0:45.5

wait, you've only done four or five so far, but we are working way ahead. But we have several

0:51.2

on deck and we just keep finding more because there's just some wild stuff out there.

0:54.7

And it's really interesting how some of these cold cases end up being solved.

0:59.2

So we're going to go ahead and jump into another one.

1:02.7

Just a heads up.

1:03.8

This one does come with a trigger warning.

1:06.2

There are details of sexual assault in here.

1:08.8

So if that is not your thing, by all means, skip to a

1:12.7

different episode. So we will go ahead and get started. All right, this story is going to start fast.

1:18.7

September 22nd, 1985, and Galena Park, Houston, Texas. This is where a 51-year-old Roy McKalep was shot to death at close range around 10 p.m.

1:30.7

while he was sleeping. The room is pitch black. It's in his house. It is dark. And they think that the

1:40.1

gun was within inches of his head. If you are a true crime fanatic like the rest of us, you'll know that when a gun is close to the skin, it can leave burn marks.

1:51.2

There's trace evidence.

1:52.5

So there's a lot of things going on right here.

1:55.5

We can scientifically tell if it was close enough to the skin when the gun was fired off.

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