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Murder: True Crime Stories

SOLVED: The Lake Waco Murders 1

Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

True Crime

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1982, three teenagers, Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth Franks, set out for a night by Lake Waco. By morning, they were found bound, gagged, and brutally murdered. This case would become one of Texas’s most shocking crimes, but in the rush to solve the case, investigators may have made a fatal mistake.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Carter Roy here.

0:04.4

If you're loving murder, true crime stories, you need to check out Crimes of, the newest show from Crime House.

0:11.7

Crimes of is a weekly series that explores a new theme each season, from crimes of the paranormal, unsolved murders, mysterious disappearances, and more. Their first season is

0:23.3

Crimes of Infamy, the true stories behind Hollywood's most iconic horror villains. Crimes of is a

0:32.2

crimehouse original powered by Pave Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or find them on YouTube at Crimehouse Studios.

0:41.0

New episodes out every Tuesday. This is Crime House.

1:00.0

We all know the saying, trust your gut. Usually, that's good advice. Something feels wrong, it probably is.

1:09.4

But sometimes people put too much weight on their intuition.

1:15.0

One investigator in Waco, Texas had this exact problem.

1:19.6

In 1982, three teenagers were brutally murdered near Lake Waco.

1:25.4

Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons was on the case, and right away, he thought he knew

1:30.4

what had happened, and who was to blame? Simons had a knack for sniffing out dangerous criminals.

1:38.2

It wasn't just about his investigative skills. It was more like a sixth sense. He'd been right

1:44.1

so many times. He didn't even question

1:47.3

it anymore. But when it came to the Lake Waco murders, Simons should have been more cautious,

1:55.1

because this time around, his intuition may have been wrong. And as a result, an innocent man may have been sent to death, Row.

2:15.6

People's lives are like a story.

2:17.7

There's a beginning, a middle, and an end, but you don't always know which part you're on.

2:23.5

Sometimes the final chapter arrives far too soon, and we don't always get to know the real ending.

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I'm Carter Roy, and this is Murder True Crime Stories, a Crime House original powered by Pave Studios that comes out every Tuesday and Thursday.

2:40.2

At Crime House, we want to express our gratitude to you, our community for making this possible.

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