Introducing: Hell and Gone Murder Line from iHeart Podcasts | Doug Janis Part 1

Someone Knows Something

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True Crime

4.6 • 20.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From iHeart Podcasts and School of Humans comes Hell and Gone Murder Line. On December 13, 2020, in Hemphill, Texas, police in Sabine County got a call about a houseboat on fire. The houseboat was docked behind 322 Echo Ridge, off of Cedar Grove Road on Highway 21 in the Pendleton area of Toledo Bend. And the scene very quickly descended into total chaos. The firefighters had trouble getting out to the remote location, and by the time they got there the boat was engulfed in flames. Firefighters and paramedics rushed to the boat but it was too late. By the time they got there the walls had caved in. And then, when they dug through the remains of the boat, they found the body of 64-year-old Doug Janis.

At first, they thought that the fire had been some kind of accident and that Doug had died as a result of a propane leak. But then, they took Doug's body in for an autopsy, and they found two bullets in his head. Doug Janis had been murdered. And his much younger wife April Mae Janis was nowhere to be found. But Doug’s death was just the beginning of a story that goes back twenty years and involves sex, allegations of corruption, and multiple murders.

More episodes of Hell and Gone Murder Line are available at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hell-and-gone/id1437808691

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0:00.0	They called it the happiest place on the high desert, home to a tight-knit group of 30-somethings who like to party.
0:07.8	It starts as a Playboy Channel fantasy, but this is real life.
0:12.9	Where passion leads to murder, and a killer seeks God's help with the cover-up.
0:18.7	I'm Josh Mancowicz, and this is Deadly Mirage,
0:21.7	an all-new podcast from Dateline.
0:24.6	Listen to all episodes now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.2	This is a CBC podcast.
0:44.7	Hell and Gone is a true crime podcast from IHeart Podcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths.
0:51.2	Over the past five years of making Hell and Gone, host Catherine has received
0:55.7	hundreds of messages from people all around the country, asking for help with an unsolved
1:00.7	murder that's affected them, their families, and their communities. In past seasons,
1:06.3	she's only been able to focus on one case, but now she's hosting a new weekly podcast called Helen Gone
1:12.7	Murder Line. Every Thursday, Catherine features a new case, adds updates to old ones, and helps as much
1:19.8	as she can to get the word out about unsolved murders. Now, here's an episode of Hell and Gone Murder
1:26.5	Line.
1:33.6	So he was murdered on this side.
1:35.7	Yes, he was killed in Texas. And she lived on the other side.
1:37.5	She lived in Louisiana.
1:39.5	We're driving across the Pendleton Bridge, the one that runs over the Sabine River
1:44.0	and separates Texas and Louisiana. We're headed across the Pendleton Bridge, the one that runs over the Sabine River and separates
1:45.0	Texas and Louisiana. We're headed to a remote spot on Toledo Ben Lake right across the Texas
1:51.5	border and Hemphill. It's the spot where on December 13, 2020, at 5.28 p.m., right before the sun
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