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The story today is the Icebox murders. On June 23rd, 1965, Fred, age 81, and Edwina Rogers, age 72, hadn't answered their phone in three days.

Fred was a retired real estate salesman.

Edwina worked as a sales representative. Their Houston home and their activities appeared unremarkable to neighbors,

so nobody had noticed their absence. However, their nephew, Marvin Marlin, was growing increasingly

worried. He decided to go check on them at their house. However, the home was all locked up,

and the blinds drawn. Marvin did not have a way into the house, so he called the police

requesting a welfare check. Something wasn't right. Around 9 p.m., Houston police officers

Charles Bullock and L. M. Barda arrived. As nobody answered the door, they kicked it in.

There was no sign of Fred or Edwina inside the home, nor their 43-year-old son, Charles,

who still lived with them. The house wasn't the tidiest, but that was not abnormal.

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