Episode 223: Nancy DePriest | Austin's Pizza Hut Murder
True Crime Couple
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
The city of Austin found itself in a predicament in late 1988. A horrific crime was committed against a young mother in broad daylight, in a well known establishment on a busy street. The unsolved crime would largely impact the city’s reputation for having the lowest crime rate of all of Texas’s great cities…so it was time to solve the murder of Nancy DePriest, let’s see how they did it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 223 of the True Crime Couple podcast. I'm Kay. And I'm John. |
| 0:06.1 | We hope that you're all doing well and that you're ready for the next case. Sorry for the delay, |
| 0:11.3 | we had a massive snowstorm here in New Jersey, but more than that, we had a sick baby. |
| 0:17.2 | And there's nothing worse than being trapped in a house with a sick baby. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, in a massive snowstorm. |
| 0:24.0 | But we survived it, and we know this is a few days late, so we apologize. |
| 0:28.6 | But for those of you that are Patreon members, this does not affect you whatsoever. |
| 0:33.8 | You're still also going to get an episode next weekend. |
| 0:39.7 | And this case, I promise you, |
| 0:47.3 | is going to be worth the wait. It is going to make you mad and maybe cry. Thanks, Kay. |
| 0:52.6 | I feel like we all need a good cry every once in a while. In this case, we'll definitely provide that for you. Well, it definitely is healthy every once in a while. And if you newly joined Patreon, please stay till the end, because |
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| 1:14.3 | Okay, John, are you ready to hear something crazy? |
| 1:15.1 | Of course. |
| 1:20.6 | The city of Austin found itself in a predicament in late 1988. |
| 1:25.5 | A horrific crime was committed against a young mother in broad daylight in a well-known establishment on a busy street. |
| 1:29.5 | The unsolved crime would largely impact the city's reputation for having the lowest crime rate |
| 1:34.9 | in all of Texas's great cities. So, it was time to solve the murder of Nancy DePriest. |
| 1:42.1 | Let's see how they did. |
| 1:46.0 | Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, has confessed to the killings of 11 people |
| 1:51.4 | whose remains were found in his apartment. We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not? |
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