Texas Shootout (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

True Crime, Mrballen, Mysterious, True Story, Storytelling, Strange, Dark

4.9 • 27K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On an early morning in 2018, a woman in her 50s stood in the doorway of her bedroom in Austin, TX – firing off shots from her .357 revolver into the dark kitchen a few yards away. Someone in the kitchen fired back, and bullets whizzed past her and crashed into the wall. The woman saw shadows moving back and forth in the kitchen, but no matter where she aimed in the darkness, she just couldn’t hit anyone. She kept firing until she heard a CLICK – her gun was empty. Terrified, she turned and ran into her bedroom closet to hide. Later that morning, when detectives arrived at the house and walked into the kitchen, the scene looked almost like something out of an old western movie – like some insane shootout had taken place in this quiet, upscale neighborhood. The dead body of a middle-aged man lay on the floor, surrounded by multiple bullet casings from what looked like several different weapons. And a handgun rested near the dead man’s out-stretched hand. The woman who lived there described the wild events of the morning to the detectives, and she claimed people had broken into her house and killed her husband, but they must have run when she opened fire on them. But the detectives had no way of knowing what had really happened, and they immediately started to wonder if this entire crime scene – this massive shootout – had just been staged to cover-up a good old-fashioned case of a wife murdering her husband.

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0:10.4	In early 2018, a woman in her 50s stood in her Austin, Texas bedroom doorway, firing shots
0:16.7	from her 357 revolver into the dark kitchen in front of her. Someone in the kitchen fired back at her,
0:22.9	and bullets tore through the house as she aimed at shadows but missed. When her gun finally emptied,
0:28.6	she fled to her closet to hide. Later, detectives found a chaotic scene in the kitchen,
0:34.1	bullet casings everywhere, a middle-aged man dead on the floor, and a handgun
0:38.5	near his hand. The woman claimed intruders had broken in, killed her husband, and fled when she
0:43.8	opened fire. Detectives, however, began to suspect that the scene was staged to cover up something
0:49.7	darker, possibly a wife killing her husband. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,
0:58.2	delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do when
1:02.7	we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
1:06.6	So, if that's of interest to you, please offer to do the follow button's colored laundry,
1:11.3	but instead of using detergent, just use bleach.
1:14.9	Okay, let's get into today's story.
1:53.8	Okay, let's get into today's story. On the evening of March 1st, 2018, 55-year-old Ted Shaughnessy placed a necklace in a glass display case in his high-end jewelry store in Austin, Texas.
2:01.8	Ted adjusted his glasses on his face and then leaned in a bit closer, and he saw the lights in the case bounce off the gold and jewels in this necklace, and it was so beautiful, he just smiled. He and his wife Corey had owned this
2:07.8	jewelry store for 20 years. Corey had a keen eye for jewelry, so she worked as the appraiser, choosing
2:13.7	which pieces to buy and then sell inside of the store, and also determining how much
2:17.6	they were worth. And Ted was a great salesman. Ted took pride in the way he displayed the jewelry
2:23.4	in the store. He wanted to draw the customers in, and then once they were there, Ted would approach
2:28.2	them like they were lifelong friends. Now, part of the reason he did this was just because it was
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