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Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

Introducing Paper Ghosts Season 2

Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

During the 1981 Fourth of July weekend, four people were found dead inside a massive farmhouse that belonged to a wealthy Ohio family. Desperate to find answers, surviving family members reached out to M. William Phelps for help. After a years-long investigation, new developments help track the movements of a new suspect and uncover a series of mysterious deaths that could expose what really happened that terrible night 40 years ago.

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0:00.0

Bethel was a great little town, just a small town.

0:08.3

Deep in America's heartland and a tucked away, rural, Ohio town and alarm went out in

0:14.3

the middle of the night.

0:16.5

It was the weekend of July 4, 1981, and the massive farmhouse of a wealthy family was on

0:23.0

fire and burning to the ground.

0:25.6

The flanger everywhere.

0:26.6

I mean, they're everywhere.

0:29.7

All four residents inside were dead, and not a single person died from the flames or smoke.

0:37.8

So the question becomes, what killed them?

0:41.9

And more importantly, who?

0:45.3

For something like this to happen in a town where everybody leaves their doors, you know,

0:48.8

unlocked, where everybody kind of knows each other.

0:52.3

People are still, they still talk about it.

0:55.3

I'm Emuelian Phelps, an investigative journalist and New York Times best selling true crime

1:00.8

author.

1:02.2

This season, I'm not chasing a missing person's flier.

1:06.0

I'm chasing a wanted poster.

1:08.2

Newmer's homicides I've investigated.

1:10.2

I've probably spoken to three psychopass, and he's one of them.

1:14.7

You'll hear conversations with those closest to the victims.

1:18.6

My brother says, Carol something's up.

1:22.2

There is too much blood.

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