Death in the Panhandle: The Murder of Elsa Romo-Nickell

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In July of 1969 in the small town of Panhandle, Texas, Elsa Romo-Nickell was found murdered on her bed as the morning alarm that was meant to wake her buzzed loudly. Leads were scarce as the crime scene was contaminated but a couple months later in nearby Skellytown, another murder which bore similarities took place. Though that lead and the few others police had seemed promising at first, including new information that investigators uncovered as late as 2017, Elsa’s murder is still unsolved.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
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0:20.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter listener The county seat of Carson County, Texas is a small town called Panhandle.
0:23.6	The town's name is advised.
0:27.6	The county seat of Carson County, Texas is a small town called Panhandle.
0:34.0	The town's name is appropriate enough, since it sits as near the middle of what is known
0:39.6	as the state's Panhandle, named such because of its shape, the narrow and strait northernmost
0:46.5	part of Texas resembles a handle. Panhandle, the city, began as a small ranching community, and when the Santa Fe Railway was built through the town in the late 19th century,
0:59.7	Panhandle became a shipping center for cattle, which remains a significant part of the economy to this day.
1:07.0	Though the town's population boomed in the early part of the 20th century, it fell again after the Great Depression.
1:16.0	In the 1950s and 1960s, though, Panhandle experienced another population spike before hitting just over 2,000 residents at the end of the 60s,
1:27.0	a number that would rise and fall over the years to come, but has never grown beyond 2,600, where the town's population sits, a couple hundred below today in
1:37.0	2019.
1:41.0	Panhandle is quaint, quiet, and in one of the most beautiful parts of the state.
1:47.0	Other than news pertaining to cattle, wheat, or oil, the rural town doesn't often make national or even state headlines.
1:57.0	Twice, however, Panhandle has been shaken by tragic events that made a sensationalistic bang, both events the result of the ultimate
2:07.2	depravity of man.
2:10.2	About a decade after the town was incorporated in 1897, Methodist preacher George Morrison
2:17.2	poisoned his wife, Minnie Morrison, with a Strick-9 laced apple, killing her so that he could be with a woman he'd been having an affair with.
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