The Daylight Slaying of Janet Eva Gregston

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

At a little after 4 PM on August 21st, 1984, on the side of the road at East Loop 338 just outside Odessa, Texas city limits, a man thought he’d witnessed a hit and run involving a pedestrian and a gold Buick. But when Ector County Sheriff’s Deputy David Montgomery discovered it wasn’t a hit and run at all, rather, a woman had been stabbed and slashed repeatedly. The woman was Janet Eva Gregston, who was 7 months pregnant. When a man claiming to have ESP entered the Sheriff’s Office to tell them about his visions, he quickly became suspect number one – or the only suspect, really – and he was subsequently arrested and indicted. Doubt about his guilt, however, wasn’t only felt be his defense attorney – and the entire debacle was eerily reminiscent of another failed attempt at a murder conviction a couple years before.

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0:00.0	Hi y'all, this episode references the 1981 slaying of 18-year-old Carmen Crone.
0:10.2	While knowledge of Carmen's case certainly is not required to fully understand this
0:15.8	episode, I would personally argue that it's an important supplement for it.
0:21.7	If you feel so inclined, you can go back and listen to Parts 1 and 2 of Carmen Crone's
0:27.5	story on our feed.
0:29.9	The episodes released on August 30th and September 7th, 2020, respectively.
0:37.2	Also, in our show notes, you'll find links to a couple of ways you can help folks searching
0:42.5	for answers.
0:43.9	First, a GoFundMe link to help the family of 1996 Brown County murder victim Leon Lorales,
0:51.7	whose case desperately needs the attention of an outside investigator.
0:57.4	Next you'll find a couple links to DNAsolves.com where you can help law enforcement with cases
1:03.2	that need funding or, at the very least, help generate support by sharing them on your
1:08.8	social media accounts.
1:11.7	The same thing can be done for Leon Lorales' GoFundMe.
1:16.6	Any way you can help is greatly appreciated and means the world to us and to the folks
1:21.9	involved.
1:23.7	That's all I've got now onto the episode.
1:26.4	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
1:31.8	is advised.
1:34.6	On Saturday, December 4th, 1982, a man described as heavily sun-tanned and about 40 years old,
1:42.5	waited to confess his sins at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Boise, Idaho.
1:49.3	Before his turn came around, however, the man who was still unidentified to this day pulled
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