Oh My God... What Kind of Mess is This?
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
As Phelps keeps digging, new sources come forward. Has all of this been some sort of witch hunt to pin the murders on two innocent men, so the real killers walk free?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:12.4 | At the conclusion of the previous episode, you heard my source, Alan Carter, |
| 0:18.9 | mention a series of accidents, suicides, and other strange deaths in Parker County. |
| 0:26.4 | In fact, right in Weatherford. |
| 0:29.0 | Several sources I spoke to, including Alan, claim that many of those deaths tied directly back to the murders of Shelley and Vincent in some way. |
| 0:41.8 | I understand that's a big, bold assertion. |
| 0:46.4 | When I first heard this, I honestly had one of those moments. |
| 0:50.1 | Okay, I get it. |
| 0:51.7 | The frustration of an unsolved teenage double murder case. |
| 0:56.2 | A lack of results from the local PD. |
| 0:59.1 | Add the conspiracy mindset that's so common today, any death of a teen becomes suspicious. |
| 1:06.8 | The confusion of a mishandled investigation. |
| 1:09.9 | No arrests 40-something years later. |
| 1:12.6 | It's a basic human response. |
| 1:15.6 | When no answers present themselves, |
| 1:17.7 | you begin to question everything. |
| 1:20.7 | You begin to think systemic corruption. |
| 1:24.6 | It's rare, but it does take place. |
| 1:33.5 | So, I put my investigative cap on and decided to take a serious look into some of these cases in Parker County. Now, let me ask you, so are there any other |
| 1:41.1 | murders before or after this that have a similar kind of ring to them that |
| 1:45.8 | begin to tell a tale of like, wow, there's something bigger going on here? |
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