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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Tenfold More Wicked - Murder in the Court: Delusions

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In April of 1935, Howard Pierson has confessed to Austin police that he murdered his parents. The district attorney prepares a case against the 21-year-old, asserting that Howard snapped because his father had refused to fund his education at the University of Texas and then forced him to toil in a hot oil field. But Howard’s brother and sister hire several top defense attorneys who declare that Howard Pierson is not bitter…but insane. Will the defense work? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producers Jason Wehling and Laura Sobel/sound designer Eric Friend/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) See my sources here: tenfoldmorewicked.com 2021 All Rights Reserved

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:03.2

This story contains adult content and language,

0:08.9

listener discretion is advised. And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called three victims.

0:25.0

I'm thinking about it. If Henry was lying, there's only one answer I can see.

0:38.0

He's the one who killed his parents. What could ever make a boy hated folks enough to shoot him down in cold blood.

0:45.2

Hello, Henry.

0:46.5

Hello, Ranger.

0:48.3

Sure.

0:49.8

Henry, your mother and father took you out of school last year, didn't they?

0:53.0

Yeah, my father wanted me to work.

0:56.0

I shouldn't have left school.

0:58.0

I owe it to the world to finish my education.

1:00.0

What were you studying?

1:01.0

Physics?

1:02.0

Everybody in the university admires. The professors said that I'd be the world's most brilliant scientist someday.

1:10.0

It seemed almost inevitable that Howard Pearson's case would be adapted into one of those old dramatic radio stories from the 1950s.

1:18.0

This 1952 radio show was called Tales of the Texas Rangers and the episode was titled three victims.

1:25.0

Our lab proved that the bullet he found in the tree up there had to be shot from where we're standing right now.

1:30.0

What's that mean?

1:32.0

That nobody shot at you.

1:34.0

I don't know what you do.

1:35.0

You killed your parents, Henry?

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