This is the kind of story that feels like an urban legend. The kind of tale so horrifying you'd

swear it was made up just to scare people. But it isn't. In the summer of 1965, Houston Police

performed a welfare check on an elderly couple who hadn't been heard from for days, but what they

found was a gruesome nightmare. This is the story of one of the most disturbing crime scenes in Texas history and a mystery that's never been solved.

Join us as we discuss the Icebox murders.

Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Doing great. Summer's kicked off. It's kicked off all right. That's it. It has. Yeah, I feel like I've gotten now, you know, we're still kind of early in summer, but I've really settled nicely into my summer, like, routine, which is a lot different and more laid back than my school year routine. So now I'm, I've kind of gotten spoiled on getting really sleepy in the middle of the day and just being like, well, I can just relax for a little while. There's still plenty of time. I don't have anything really to do it. I know, I don't have to go anywhere. I don't have to pick up any kids. So, yes, we are sitting down to record. It's 1.30 in the afternoon. And I have a cup of coffee because I'm already in my summertime afternoon nap mode. So it's, yeah, I'm all over the place right now. I know I have to work. It's the middle of the week, but at the same time, it's also the middle of the summer. So I know, I know. We're going to swim a little bit after this as long as it doesn't rain, but that's a nice perk in the summer of being able to just get in the water and get out and work, I guess, or clean. I should do that or doing laundry.

Did you say that that's the great thing about the summer is you're able to get out and clean and work?

No, no, no. Get it in the water. Get in the water. Like freshen up in the water. I'm like, don't even shower.

Hop in the water. Get out and do your chores.

It makes a lot of sense. It is motivating for kids, though. It is. Do your chores and you can go

swimming. That's helpful. Other than that, no, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm very, very

excited about this episode. I was not familiar with this story. I actually got the icebox

murders confused with a different, like a serial killer thing. So this was all brand new

information to me. Super fascinating. And wow. Yeah, this is definitely a very crazy story. It

sounds like it would be something from a movie or just from a scary story and not a real life thing. It also kind of gave me a little bit of Dexter Season 1 vibes with the Ice Truck Killer. Maybe that's what I'm coming up. Maybe that is kind of where your subconscious connected that and that's what you're thinking, something different.

But that's kind of what I was thinking at first.

That was the first thing I thought of was Dexter, that whole season was about the ice truck killer.

And it was actually a very similar premise to that season as what happened in this real life story.

So let's just get into it.

So Fred and Edwina Rogers

weren't the type of people that you would expect to meet some kind of tragic or gruesome end.

Fred, who was born way back in 1884, was 81 years old when this story unfolded.

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