Bump Monkeys

Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

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True Crime

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As Phelps interviews sources connected to the Weatherford teen murders, including law enforcement working the case at the time, two new theories emerge—sending him deep into a dark, dangerous underworld straight out of Breaking Bad. Meanwhile, a victim’s family member accuses his uncle of involvement with the murders.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human. Hello.
0:25.4	Hello, Raymond.
0:26.8	Who is this?
0:28.4	This is M. William Phelps, Matthew.
0:30.9	Oh, okay, yes.
0:33.4	Matthew, okay.
0:34.6	How you doing?
0:36.0	Pretty good. How you? I'm back in the back, feeding the goats.
0:40.3	Oh.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	Let me see.
0:44.3	Let me go put this up and I'll just, I'll go ahead and talk to you.
0:48.3	Go ahead.
0:49.3	Okay.
0:50.3	Yeah, well, the wind's grown real bad out here in Texas point, about 45-50.
0:57.6	Vincent Tegarina Jr.'s uncle, Raymond Tegarina, is 80 years old.
1:04.0	Yet he can recall the moment he learned his nephew had been murdered with the vivid acuity of a man half his age.
1:17.5	I used to run all the time in competition runs all over the state.
1:21.9	And me and my son had gone to run in Stephenville, which is 50 miles from here, 53 miles from here.
1:27.8	And we heard it on the news that morning after we're finished.
1:31.3	Stupid cops called it a murder-suicide, even though they didn't find a weapon or stupid.
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