Between The Madness - Episode 13 - Caught Red Handed - The Murder of Ariel Cade
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.5 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On a spring afternoon in Lubbock, Texas, a federal agent watched an apartment door from an unmarked vehicle. He was there to find a robbery suspect. Instead, he witnessed something no one expected. What followed was a desperate manhunt, a young mother's death, and a chain of events that no one could stop once it began.
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Research & Writing:
Sherri Smith
Research:
J.R. Rainbolt
Editing:
Aiden Wolf
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| 1:17.4 | Thank you. The Minds of Madness podcast. Listener discretion is advised. Caught red-handed, originated a 15th century Scottish legal term. It described catching a poacher, a cattle rustler, or a murderer, with the victim's blood |
| 1:23.1 | literally still on their hands. |
| 1:26.3 | Centuries later, the spirit of that law was still alive and well in Texas. |
| 1:31.3 | On the afternoon of March 14, 2024, a federal agent sat in a staked-out vehicle, |
| 1:38.3 | eyes locked on an apartment in the 1300 block of 65th Drive in Lubbock. He wasn't there for a murder, he was there for a robbery, |
| 1:48.0 | a gas station hold up four days earlier. |
| 1:51.0 | The kind of case that gets worked quietly on a tip from a parked car. |
| 1:56.0 | An agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives was working alongside the Texas Anti-Gang Unit, |
| 2:05.0 | sitting on an address and waiting for a face to appear. |
| 2:08.8 | And then, the door of Unit 17 opened, and a young man stepped out into the daylight. |
| 2:15.1 | A young woman followed behind him. |
| 2:20.3 | They were arguing, the kind of argument that spills out of a building because it's already filled up the rooms inside. The agent |
| 2:25.7 | recognized the man. It was exactly who he'd come for. He took out his phone and sent photographs |
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