Episode 304: Leon Laureles

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the late night hours of May 9, 1996, a 30-year-old man leaves his home for his midnight shift in Brownwood, Texas. But he never makes it inside. Just after midnight, his car is found burning near a gun range, and his body is discovered nearby with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Despite the brutality of the man’s death, the police do not take his murder seriously, and the case quickly goes unsolved. In episode 304, Jac and Alexis delve into the life and tragic death of Leon Laureles, exploring the systemic failures that have left his case unsolved for nearly three decades and highlighting his niece's unwavering fight for justice.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	Do you see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper. You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	The other caller was an ARN nurse that was coming home from her shift at the hospital.
0:27.0	She saw the fire and she actually pulled over and went down there to see if she could help anyone.
0:35.0	And that's when she realized Leon's body,
0:38.0	laying a few feet in front of the car.
0:41.0	And I've spoken to her daughter, and it was one of those things that just stayed with her forever.
0:46.0	She was really affected by it. She was devastated that she wasn't able to help Leon and that just, you know, stayed with her until the day she died and that breaks my heart for
0:56.2	her.
0:57.2	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast that you might end up on.
1:01.8	My name is Jack Vanick. I'm sitting here with
1:03.3	Alexis Link letter and I have a little bit of like a sexy rasp going on because we
1:08.0	party it a little bit too hard last weekend and it's really taken me into the week but I like when I sound like this.
1:14.4	I like when you sound like this too. I always sound like this and people keep like
1:20.4	hating on me in comments being like stop with a vocal fry I'm like I don't I'm not like I'm not because I know like
1:29.9	Kardashians like you can tell they're doing it on purpose yeah but I'm talking
1:34.6	with enthusiasm and with real projection and this is just how it sounds but isn't
1:39.8	vocal fry the opposite isn't it that it like goes you isn't it trying to
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