S3 Ep111: Christine Morton and Debra Baker

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 1986, Christine Morton was brutally murdered in her Austin, Texas, home. The investigation left a wave of destruction in its wake.

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0:00.0	Hello and thanks for joining us for Into the Killing.
0:02.7	If you know of any cool cases that were eventually solved that you want us to cover on Into the Killing,
0:08.2	please visit our website, cromelylisted.com.
0:11.8	You can also suggest cases for our two YouTube channels, Cremely Listed and Parenthoramely Listed and Paranormally Listed.
0:17.8	For this episode, we're going back to August 1986. On August 4th, 1986, after three seasons,
0:25.6	the team owners in the United States Football League, also known as the USFL, voted to suspend the fourth season.
0:33.5	The idea behind the league was to play football in the spring and summer when there was no NFL or college games.
0:40.3	It was also supposed to be more fun than the NFL.
0:43.3	For example, the players were allowed to have more elaborate celebrations.
0:47.3	In the opening season, there were 12 teams.
0:50.3	The football was considered good and, in his first three years of operation, the league had
0:56.4	signed three consecutive Heisman Trophy winners. Just before the league's second season started
1:01.6	in 1984, Donald Trump bought the team, the New Jersey Generals, for $10 million.
1:07.7	Three years earlier, Trump had fronted a group that tried to buy the NFL's
1:11.9	Baltimore Colts, but their offer of $50 million was rejected. Shortly after buying the team,
1:18.8	Trump started pushing other owners to change the schedule from the spring and summer to the
1:23.8	winter and autumn to compete with the NFL. He said, quote, if God wanted football in the spring,
1:30.2	he would have never created baseball, unquote. Trump went as far as to disguise his voice and call reporters
1:36.7	claiming he was a publicist named John Barron who worked for Trump. While pretending to be
1:42.3	barren, he badmouthed the commissioner of the USFL.
1:46.0	In March 1984, Trump secretly met with NFL Commissioner P. Rozel. Roselle claimed that Trump,
1:52.6	who set up the meeting, begged for an NFL team. He said he would blow up the USFL if it meant
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