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The Deck

Agustin Chacon (King of Clubs, Texas) & Marshall McCarthy (5 of Hearts, Texas)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Agustin Chacon, 25, and Marshall McCarthy, 37, were both shot to death in their homes in the same Odessa, Texas, neighborhood on the same winter night in 1982. While Marshall’s case nearly had too many leads for investigators to chase, Agustin’s hardly had any. A language barrier between police and Agustin’s roommates made things even harder. Now, more than 40 years later, one cold case detective is working through the different challenges in each case as she tries to solve both of these men’s murders.

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0:00.0

Our cards this week are Augustine Chaconne, the King of Clubs from Texas, and Marshall McCarthy, the Five of Hearts from Texas.

0:13.0

On the same evening, in March 1982, in the same Odessa, Texas neighborhood, two men living very different lives were shot dead inside

0:22.7

their homes, just a half mile apart. Though their paths may have never crossed in life, their

0:28.3

deaths have been forever linked by proximity and the nearly 43-year pursuit of justice for them

0:34.7

both. But as the Odessa detective on the case told us, Augustine's case grew cold because there

0:41.3

were so few suspects, while marshals has never been solved because there are just too many.

0:47.0

And that's where you can come in.

0:49.5

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

1:39.7

Music Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. At around 9.30 p.m. on March 3rd, a man named Pedro was cooking in the kitchen of the cramped one-bedroom house in West Texas that he shared with a dozen other men who all seemed to be in town for work in the Odessa oil fields.

1:51.9

The crowded quarters meant that the men had to take turns cooking. And as Pedro prepared his own dinner, one of his many roommates, 25-year-old Augustine Chaconne, joined him and began chopping potatoes.

2:00.8

But the quiet of their ordinary night was shattered out of nowhere when the front door to the little one-story house swung open, and a short man with a slight build appeared in the doorway.

2:04.9

His face was covered with some kind of orange fabric

2:07.6

as he raised the gun he held in his right hand.

2:11.4

Pedro thought that he saw another man standing behind him,

2:14.1

but he couldn't be sure.

2:15.6

And Pedro heard the gunmen shout,

2:19.0

Don't move in Spanish. And he watched as Augustine, still holding the kitchen knife, turned around, and then gunshots

2:26.0

rang out. Everything suddenly went dark, and someone had cut the lights. Pedro ran as a couple more

2:33.7

gunshots were fired. He made it to the

2:36.3

living room where some of the men slept and dove behind a bed for cover. He saw Augustine stagger

2:42.2

from the kitchen to the bedroom and collapsed on the floor. In the chaotic aftermath of the

2:47.3

shooting, one of the roommates turned the lights back on, and someone managed to call

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