The Bodies Were Shaking
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of the season, Phelps tracks down someone who claims to know what happened to Shelly and Vincent: where and how they were murdered, who killed them, and why. And this source ain’t no stranger … he’s kin to Shelly Colliflower.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.9 | Just start by telling me, like, back in the day in the 1980s, how did you know Vincent and Shelley? |
| 0:24.9 | I knew Vincent from school, of course. |
| 0:28.0 | Shelly's brothers played on my baseball team. |
| 0:31.2 | I didn't heard from there. |
| 0:32.7 | I used to go to lunch with Vincent all the time. |
| 0:36.2 | We had all the campus lunch, so we would hop in his car. |
| 0:40.8 | He got his car before I got mine, and we would go eat lunch. |
| 0:47.3 | That is the voice of a man who knew Vincent and Shelley. |
| 0:52.0 | He was also one of the kids from the group who, in 1983, |
| 0:56.6 | cruised up and down the strip, passing through Piss Hill on Friday and Saturday nights. |
| 1:03.0 | What kind of car did Vincent have? |
| 1:05.2 | 70 or 71 Monte Carlo, that generation. |
| 1:10.2 | So besides his father's Monte Carlo, he also had a Monte Carlo? |
| 1:14.6 | Yes, sir. The one that they were found in was like a 78 to 80 model. It was that generation. |
| 1:21.6 | His was the early generation. |
| 1:24.6 | I see. And so what kind of kid was he? Oh gosh, quiet, nice. Probably do anything for anybody. Very quiet. New martial arts and stuff like that. So he'd pop you in the head if he had to, but I never saw him give that to anyone. |
| 1:47.4 | But he always had a smile on his face. |
| 1:48.8 | Right. |
| 1:51.2 | Did he talk about Shelley at all? |
| 1:52.9 | He didn't really talk about her that much. |
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