41: Two Marys, Two Murders: A Houston Cold Case

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 2000, two Houston-area women named Mary Morris were murdered in their cars within a few days of each other. 23 years later, it's still not certain if the two were connected.

If you have any information about the deaths of either Mary Henderson Morris or Mary McGinness Morris, you can contact Harris County Sheriff's Homicide Detective, Jeff Thomas ([email protected]). You can also call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:30.8	On October 16, 2000, Marilyn Blalaq had to make one of the worst phone calls of her life.
0:39.2	She placed a call to the Houston Texas medical examiner who was handling the body of her mother,
0:45.3	Mary Morris. Marilyn and her stepfather had just recently held the funeral for Mary,
0:51.2	and now she needed to call the medical examiner to pick up the jewelry that was collected from
0:55.9	her mother the day she died, or rather the day she was found. The medical examiner's office
1:03.2	picked up on the other end and assured Marilyn that the jewelry would be ready soon, but not before
1:08.7	her mother's body was ready for pickup. There was a pause. Her mother's body had already been
1:17.7	picked up. Marilyn reminded the front desk. She had just buried her mother, so the jewelry should
1:24.6	be ready to collect. But the person on the phone insists that can't be possible. Mary Morris was
1:32.1	still in the morgue. Marilyn's first thought, which I should admit would also be my first thought,
1:39.6	was that there was some horrible mistake. Her mother had been unrecognizable when she was found,
1:45.6	her body was so badly burned they needed to use dental records to identify her.
1:51.9	Perhaps she had accidentally been switched with someone else, and they just held a funeral
1:57.6	for, well, a stranger. Marilyn was transferred to multiple individuals within the medical
2:04.4	examiner's office, all of whom were trying to help figure out what went wrong. And that's when
2:10.4	they figure it out. Mary Morris was still in the morgue. But it was a different Mary Morris.
2:20.3	A Mary Morris, who, like the first one, was killed in her car in the Houston area,
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