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Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cult leader. I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry. And in a recent little leader, I mentioned a case from 1991 that had everybody in Austin, Texas on edge.

Understandably so. It was a nightmare situation. You have four teenage girls brutally murdered

and not a suspect in sight. We take a long time to find that suspect. And it's a case that could have

been entirely avoided. And I'm going to tell you why. Now, the city of Austin itself in 1991 was not

the Austin, Texas we know today. There wasn't Kendra Scott stores and stark white coffee shops with

pink cowboy hats on the wall. Local mom and pop shops took precedence. And it had that cozy

feeling that a lot of cities in America had at the time, only to be, quite frankly, shattered by the

2010s. And sorry, I take it personally. Okay, I experienced it myself. Small business owners having to

shut their doors for these evil corporations, these evil corporate landlords

coming in and swooping up real estate. Sure, you can stay, but your rent is now four times

what it used to be. One of my best friends moved to Austin when we were 18, around 18, I should say.

And when I visited, it still had very good cozy vibes. And don't get me wrong, I still love Austin. But I

recall when Madison and I toured there for both our live show and a year later for our book

tour, it was different. The city felt different. You could see that there were a lot of changes

that had been made. And I still think it's a great city. But it's kind of like Nashville in the

sense where you have

cute little neighborhood areas where there's colorful mom and pop shops, coffee shops with

mismatched furniture and restaurants that have been around for 30 plus years. And then you

have areas like 12 South here that are sort of mini L.A.s with trendy restaurants, upscale retail stores. And it happened

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