Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.

Listener discretion is advised. Oh, Hello everybody welcome to episode

welcome to episode 307 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.

And this is Mike Morford.

Mr. Mike Morford, man, how you doing?

I'm doing good now that you're up out of bed,

had a little bit of a hard time rousing you today.

Yeah, yeah, very strange. I normally get up about an hour before we are set to record because

we're record in the morning and got a phone call from you and I was still in bed.

So there we go.

That's what happens when your kids are out of the house.

Me, I've got them up at the crack of dawn going to school.

So yeah, my schedule has changed since the kids are off to college, for sure.

Hey, let's go ahead and do our Patreon shout-outs we had Nicole Richards, Miracle Boyd, and Allison Ferguson.

So a lot of great new support, we really appreciate it.

Thanks so much to everybody that puts in that support it means a lot to us and for

anyone else I'd like to help support the show you can head over to patreon

com slash criminology to get started all right let's jump right into this week's case and we're talking about an unsolved murder case, one which might be a hate crime and that some of our listeners may be familiar with, thanks largely in part to the efforts of

one close family member who refuses to let the case fade away and be forgotten.

We're talking about the 1996 murderer of Juan Leon Lorellis outside of

Brownwood, Texas. This episode is dropping on May 11th, 2024, and it was just after midnight 28 years ago on May 10th, 1996, that police were responding to the scene of Leon's murder.

To mark that sad anniversary and help continue to spread awareness of Leon's unsolved

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