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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Death in Houston High Society Part 1: The Murder of Elaine Goss

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1968, Elaine and Dean Goss opened up the Holiday Dinner Theater in Houston, Texas. The place was a huge hit and so was Dean Goss, who quickly became known as “The Jackie Gleason of Houston.” Dean was so big, in fact, that he and Elaine’s establishment was renamed The Dean Goss Dinner Theater. For a decade, Elaine and Dean lived the high life, hobnobbing with socialites, celebrities, and politicians. But after the theater went out of business, things spiraled downward. Then in 1982 came the unthinkable when Elaine Goss was murdered in the couple’s home in the Meyerland neighborhood of Houston. But it would be far from the last slaying of someone close to Dean Goss, and many, perhaps unfairly, began calling him by a different nickname, “The Bluebeard of Houston.”

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Though the story had been orally told for many years before,

0:42.0

the French peasant folktale La Barbe blue was first published in print form in Paris in 1697

0:49.5

after it was written by Charles Perot, the father of the fairy tale.

0:54.6

Many iterations of this grizzly story about an aristocrat, a powerful nobleman

1:00.2

feared for his cruelty, have been written since.

1:04.0

This man's unsightly blue beard is the source of his name and the story.

1:09.5

This nobleman was married several times, but no one knows what became of his many wives.

1:16.0

Mysteriously, they all disappeared.

1:19.0

Though blue beard wishes to wed one of the two beautiful daughters of his widow neighbor,

1:23.9

neither will agree. He was much older than them, and they feared the man and his ugly facial hair.

1:31.0

After attending an extravagant banquet party at the extraordinarily wealthy man's home,

1:36.9

however, the youngest daughter changes her mind. The allure of a life of riches and luxury

1:43.2

is too powerful for her to resist. Bluebeard and the young woman are promptly married after she agrees.

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