This is episode 4 in our Murder at Lake Waco series, a trigger warning for our listeners.

This series contains gruesome depictions of murder and mentions of sexual assault.

This episode looks at the trial proceedings of the Lake Waco murder case, which will reveal

trouble some details about the night in April 1982.

I advise proceeding with caution.

In a shivering hand, David Spence sprawled a chilling account of a conversation that had

taken place between Deep and himself.

It was June of 1982.

Spence claimed, when Deep posed the question, would you kill someone for $5,000?

Spence had answered in the affirmative.

When Spence was finally handed over to the Texas Department of Corrections, on August 30,

1983, to serve his 90-year sentence for sexual assault, Simmons breathed a sigh of relief.

He would be safe locked up there, while Simmons holded other threads in the investigation.

Three of his four suspects were in custody, and he had people reporting to him about Deep's

whereabouts at all times.

For the first time in almost a year, Truman attempted to distance himself from the case for a few

days and go fishing with his son.

Things started to pick up after that confession.

There were witnesses now, willing to come forward and talk about Spence.

Tony Melendez, Gilbert's younger brother, was also brought into custody and taken to

Nukis County jail, though he insisted he had been painting apartments on the day of the

Lake Waco murders.

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