S2 Ep.2: The Cops
Murderville
The Intercept
4.1 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Crime is surging in Houston, and homicide detectives are given free rein as they race to close cases. Investigators are certain that Charles Raby is guilty of Edna Franklin’s murder — and that DNA evidence will prove it. But once Charles confesses, the forensic investigation stops.
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| 0:00.0 | A quick listener note. This podcast contains adult language and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:07.0 | Now stay tuned for NBC News Special Presentation. |
| 0:14.0 | On December 6, 1990, NBC preempted their Friday night prime time drama Midnight Caller |
| 0:21.0 | about a former cop turned talk radio host for a show about real cops. |
| 0:26.0 | Titled Houston Homicide, it was hosted by Tom Broca and kind of like the old reality show cops, |
| 0:34.0 | but more cinema verite. |
| 0:36.0 | Tonight, a detective story will take you inside the working lives of Houston Homicide Investigators. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll be with them during their daily struggles with the awful realities of America's sudden and alarming increase |
| 0:50.0 | in the business of violent death. |
| 0:52.0 | The show opens with the two lead detectives who investigated Edna Franklin's murder. |
| 0:58.0 | Houston police sergeants Wayne Wendell and Waman Allen. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, Wendell. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, John. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey, folks. |
| 1:05.0 | How are you? |
| 1:06.0 | Good. |
| 1:07.0 | They pull up to the scene of a homicide. |
| 1:10.0 | There's a man dead in a ditch by the side of the road. |
| 1:14.0 | Allen is driving. |
| 1:16.0 | It's one of those boxy 80s unmarked cop cars. |
| 1:20.0 | Allen parks behind some crime scene tape. |
| 1:23.0 | He grabs his jacket with one hand and his gun with the other, which he shoves into the waistband of his pants. |
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