Piss Hill
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As family members panic without word from teens Vincent and Shelly, Vincent’s father heads out to search for the kids. Meanwhile, a local private investigator gets involved in the case 40-plus years later and starts stirring up the hornet’s nest, creating a groundswell of new information. Phelps steps into the fray to sort fact from fiction—before discovering things aren’t always what they seem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | Then you would go up to the hill, you know, and the nickname of it was Piss Hill. |
| 0:12.9 | And everybody knew it. |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, everybody knew it, yes. |
| 0:16.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.4 | Everybody that was on the main drag cruising around, yes, they wouldn't know where that's at. |
| 0:22.2 | In every murder case, we get the media's version of events. |
| 0:27.5 | The story law enforcement pushes out, and the narrative underneath it all, those involved actually lived. |
| 0:38.9 | And how old are you? When were you born? |
| 0:41.7 | I was born in 1965, so I'm almost 60. I'll be 60 next month. |
| 0:48.7 | And you grew up in Weatherford? |
| 0:51.1 | For the most part, yeah. I grew up in Louisiana. My dad was in the military, so I grew up |
| 0:57.1 | partially in Louisiana. I got relatives there. And then Texas, yeah, for basically |
| 1:02.5 | Weatherford, yeah, for most of my time, yeah. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm calling this source Teddy. He doesn't want me to use his real name. |
| 1:12.3 | Offering anonymity to those living in fear for decades allows them to speak freely. |
| 1:19.3 | Teddy lived in Weatherford in March 1983. He was in town on the night Shelley cauliflower |
| 1:26.2 | and Vincent Tjorina were out on their first car date in Vincent's father's 1979, Monte Carlo. |
| 1:40.4 | And I understand there was an area where, quote, unquote, you would cruise. |
| 1:45.8 | So, you know, this is like in the, like from the 70s, I was, you know, I cruised the main drag from like 79 to around 82ish, 83ish. |
| 1:59.1 | That's my high school years. |
| 2:04.3 | And it was in South Maine, Texas, which we have, |
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