Dead in the Water: The Murder of Shelley Lou Watkins

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On Labor Day 1993, Shelley Lou Watkins, her husband Jerry, and others gathered at their cedar Creek Lake home to celebrate the holiday. But after an argument broke out between the couple, Shelley disappeared and since the manner in which she was reported missing is suspect at the very least, no searches were conducted. By the time the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office found out about the missing mother of two, it was far too late since her body was found floating in the Trinity River by fisherman the very same day. Although a grand jury indicted the prime suspect, he never stood trial and Shelley Lou Watkins’s murder remains unsolved.

If you have any information about the slaying of 35-year-old Shelley Lou Watkins on Labor Day of 1993, please contact the Henderson County Sheriff’s Department at 903-677-6331.

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The Texas State Historical Society, The Athens Review, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Corsicana Daily Sun, The Tyler Courier-Times, and the Washington Post were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:05.3	is advised.
0:08.4	About 58 miles southeast of Dallas, Texas, is Corsicana.
0:13.9	The city is located in central Navarro County, named after Texas Revolutionary Jose Antonio
0:20.5	Navarro, who gave Corsicana its name in honor of the birthplace of his parents, Corsica
0:27.2	Island.
0:29.0	Besides being the birthplace of one of the greatest country music songwriters that has
0:33.8	ever lived, William Orville, Brazil, better known as Lefty to Most, Corsicana's history
0:39.9	is rich, and in fact groundbreaking.
0:44.0	The town's roots are modest enough.
0:47.0	By 1860, Corsicana had a tavern, a brick courouse, a church, a school, several mercantile
0:54.3	establishments, and a newspaper, the Corsicana Prairie Blade.
1:00.0	Though the Civil War set the town back some, being on the losing side and all, Corsicana
1:05.6	bounced back quickly and further developed, largely due to the completion of the Houston
1:11.4	and Central Texas Railroad line in 1871.
1:16.5	By the late 1880s, Corsicana had a few more churches in town, a grist mill, which grinds
1:22.9	grains into flour, four weekly newspapers, and produced goods like cotton, sheep wool,
1:29.7	and livestock hides.
1:32.2	Fast growth in the area at the time resulted in something of a water shortage crisis,
1:37.6	and in the spring of 1894, civic leaders sought to remedy that particular problem by attempting
1:44.0	to tap into a shallow, artesian well there.
1:48.2	This where the groundbreaking nature of Corsicana's history comes in, both literally, of course,
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