The Abduction & Murder of Raul Arevalo

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On February 23rd, 1953, two men asked workers at the Lyles Buick Company Service Station in Sonora for help; they’d ran out of gas and were stranded just east of town, the strangers said. 17-year-old Raul Arevalo filled up a gas can, grabbed the keys to the company pickup, and drove the men back to their vehicle. But he never returned. For six days, Raul’s family searched for him, as did Texas Highway Patrol and the Sutton County Sheriff’s Office. On March 1st, 1953, six days after he disappeared, a young married couple found the body of Raul Arevalo. He’d been tortured and shot to death. The men who Raul sought to help have never been identified. At least, not officially.

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0:00.0	The Gone Coal podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.7	is advised.
0:10.0	On Wednesday, February 18, 1953, three prisoners at the Tarant County Texas Jailhouse slipped
0:17.1	out of an unlocked door in cell block A. Using a shower pipe they'd sneakily hidden
0:23.6	away in the hope that this very opportunity would someday present itself.
0:28.6	One of the men slugged Jailer Jim Holcomb in the skull and took the keys from his unconscious
0:34.7	person.
0:36.2	Holcomb had foiled a plot to escape on the first day of 1953, but this time he wasn't
0:43.6	so lucky.
0:45.2	Apparently, a few more men who'd since become inmates joined in on the cause for freedom,
0:51.6	and brute strength and numbers allowed for ten men to escape on this February night,
0:58.0	and they were able to take two Jailer's guns with them.
1:01.8	Still, all but one of the escapees were apprehended relatively quickly, and before they could
1:08.1	repeat the crimes they were in the clink for in the first place.
1:12.9	Those charges ranged from burglary to auto theft to rape between the ten of them, and
1:18.8	now, of course, breaking out of the Tarant County Jailhouse.
1:23.5	One particularly dim Jailbreaker was apprehended thirty minutes after the escape on the corner
1:30.4	of Peach and Henderson streets in Fort Worth.
1:34.2	That's just a few blocks from the Jail.
1:37.4	Three more were caught the following day in southeast Texas near Doeville.
1:42.7	The total of apprehended escapees was seven not long after that.
1:48.2	But forty-year-old Floyd Allen Hill, a scar-faced career criminal since his early teenage
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