The Assassination of Clarence Ray Hudgins Part 1: Firebomb

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Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The oilfield business in East Texas, once upon a time, was wrought with shady characters who’d gladly revert to egregious crimes to stay on top of the game. Perhaps that is the reason Oilfield Sandblasting & Coating Incorporated’s owner, 27-year-old Clarence Ray Hudgins, was gunned down on the porch of his home in October of 1981. But that theory is almost too easy, and besides that, shady figures in the business usually only sabotaged or stole equipment. Murder was much more of a rarity. Either way, the Kilgore, Texas Police and the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office were stumped. Motives were easily theorized, but much more difficult to prove.

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Sources for this episode, largely, were the documents supplied to us by Ray Hudgins’s Mother Kathryn. Additional sources include The Kilgore News-Herald, The Tyler Morning-Telegraph, and the Longview News-Journal.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:05.3	is advised.
0:07.0	93 years old at the time of this recording, Catherine Huggins has had what she considers
0:13.8	a good life, but it certainly has not been without its trials and tribulations, its tragedies.
0:22.4	At age 2 in 1930, Catherine contracted polio, and she remembers going through much of
0:28.9	her early childhood and what she called little wheelchairs and little crutches.
0:35.1	She was an active member of Kilgore Texas' Girl Scout troop number 4 all the while.
0:42.2	Around the time Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, she began undergoing several operations
0:48.1	at Dallas's Scottish Right Hospital, which was founded specifically to treat children
0:54.1	with polio.
0:56.1	Catherine overcame the damage the illness wreaked on her legs, though she would still undergo
1:01.7	other procedures as an adult.
1:05.1	In May of 1946, Catherine married Howard Huggins, known to most by his middle name Kenneth.
1:13.6	Catherine and Kenneth Huggins began a long union and started a family, welcoming into
1:18.8	it several children.
1:21.5	Both of Catherine's parents died at an early age, her father of tuberculosis at age 51,
1:28.5	and her mother of cervical cancer just weeks before her 50th birthday.
1:34.3	In the year 2000, Catherine and Kenneth's son Howard Wayne Huggins died after what was
1:39.7	said to be a courageous battle against cancer.
1:43.5	He was only 52 years old.
1:47.0	Huggins beloved husband of almost 56 years, the man she described to us as her friend,
1:53.0	husband, and banker when she went out gambling, passed away in 2002.
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