Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcasts, and Killer Podcasts, Presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

Hello and welcome to Who Killed, the Lake Waco Murders, Part 2. I'm your host Bill Huffman,

and this is a slow burn media production.

On this week's episode, we will be looking at the murder convictions of Munir-Dib, David

Spence, and the Melendez brothers. And again, that's Melendez, not Menendez from Beverly Hills.

Now, there has been some confusion over the years about the guilt

of the people convicted, and I will do my best to address those questions during this show.

But before we get going, I wanted to give you guys a quick recap on the case. It was a very hot day

in Texas on July 13, 1982, when Kenneth Franks and his ex-girlfriend Jill

Montgomery and her friend Raylene Rice decided to head off to Lake Waco to beat the heat.

And it wasn't until Richard Franks raised the alarm, because Kenneth did not

come home on time, that a search party was convened the following day. And it was during the

search party where first responders recovered the bodies of the three teenagers in Spiegelville Park, which was across the lake from Cone Park.

Now, for all the first responders in Waco, this was definitely a scene that they had not been used to seen.

So it was one gruesome and two young victims, as well as sexual assaults that were involved.

So it was awful.

I mean, this was a first responder's worst nightmare.

And the bodies of the teens had been stabbed a total of 47 times. So again,

like I said, this was a gruesome scene and it was definitely one that I'm sure left a mark on a lot

of the investigators at the time. Now, the investigation initially, it kind of didn't really

go anywhere. And it was eight weeks into the investigation initially, it kind of didn't really go anywhere.

And it was eight weeks into the investigation when there were very few leads.

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