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Welcome to True Crime Brewery.

I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

After Jimmy Don Beets fishing boat was found abandoned in Lake Athens, Texas, the locals

speculated that he had accidentally drowned.

But then two years later, his body was found buried in a wishing well on his own property.

And shockingly, another missing man was discovered entombed on the same property.

These two men had one thing in common and that was Betty Lou Beets.

Join us at the quiet end for down the wishing well.

The story of the life of Betty Lou Beets

has a continuous threat of hardship and dysfunction

running through it that most of us can't imagine, but does a difficult past excuse dishonest, cruel, and violent behavior?

That's up for debate, but even Betty's children who survived years with her would be shocked by her hard-heartedness.

So here we are in Texas for these murders.

We're going to drink some Lone Star, which I drank a fair amount of in my younger days when we lived in Oklahoma.

And, you know, it's not a very good beer, but it's kind of the state beer for Texas.

It's an American adjunct lager. So it's sort of in the Budweiser category.

Clear yellow color, tiny white head, aroma, not too much, some

some sweet grain, a little bit of grassy hops,

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