Hub City Homicides Part 2: Marcella Valenzuela, Elizabeth Price, & Naomi Martin

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The year 1976 was shaping up to be as violent and bloody as the previous year in Lubbock, Texas, beginning with the mysterious death of Marcella Valenzuela in January. Her death led investigators and newspaper reporters to a frenzied and paranoid theory: that a, quote, “gay sex-drug cult” had infiltrated the city. But when Elizabeth Price was brutally murdered in April, at least some detectives had sense knocked back into them. The depraved murder of Elizabeth mirrored, in many ways, the 1975 slaying of Debbie Sue Williamson. There were investigators, too, who thought the 1971 deadly attack and torture of Naomi Martin might also be connected.

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0:00.0	Hi y'all, this is part two of Hub City homicides. If you haven't listened to part one, we suggest you do before listening to this episode. There are a lot of tie-ins.
0:15.0	Before we get started, here's a trailer for a show.
0:17.8	We've been digging, unjust, and unsolved.
0:25.0	My name is Maggie Freeling.
0:27.0	I'm an investigative journalist and I'm excited to tell you about my new podcast from the
0:31.3	obsessed network called Unjust and Unsolved.
0:35.2	Each episode tells the story of a person who I believe has been wrongfully incarcerated.
0:41.4	The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that there are over 20,000 innocent people locked away in US prisons.
0:50.0	When I learned this, I sent letters to those whose stories haunted me.
0:54.0	I heard back from almost everyone.
0:56.0	They all wanted to be heard.
0:58.0	And so on unjust and unsolved, I'm doing just that.
1:02.0	I speak with those people, their loved ones, advocates, and lawyers, diving
1:06.4	deep into the crimes they were convicted of, and presenting the evidence that
1:09.9	points away from them. And if it wasn't them, then who was it? Help me search for an
1:15.4	answer. You can find unjust and unsolved and all obsessed network
1:20.0	podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening right now.
1:25.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
1:30.0	Listener discretion is advised.
1:32.0	Even after a year. matter, listener discretion is advised.
1:34.0	Even after a year, rot with violent crime and homicide, many of which were still unsolved,
1:40.5	the Lubbock Police Department did everything they could to deny the problem that was sweeping the city. In an article released in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal on May 14,, 1976, titled Report Disputes High Crime Rate.
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