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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Goncol podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion |
0:06.2 | is advised. |
0:09.6 | Located about 150 miles southeast of San Antonio on the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is |
0:17.0 | perhaps best known for its expansive oil industry, or possibly the beach. |
0:24.4 | It isn't Houston or Dallas, cities with well-known Texas true-crime tales, such as the |
0:31.0 | candy man or the assassination of a president. |
0:35.7 | Corpus Christi, to many Texans and perhaps an overwhelming majority of those who live |
0:41.0 | outside the state who have even heard of it, is an unassuming place not known for cold |
0:46.9 | blooded and senseless, violent crime. |
0:50.6 | But there seems to be something in the proverbial water in the city that translates from Latin |
0:55.9 | to English as the body of Christ. |
0:59.6 | Many of Texas's most horrific crimes have taken place in Corpus Christi. |
1:05.7 | The early 1990s alone there saw a seemingly endless flow of news reports involving stabbings, |
1:13.2 | some fatal, with motives ranging from squabbles between roommates, to gang territory disputes, |
1:20.7 | to cocaine-fueled psychosis. |
1:24.2 | But for the loved ones of Corpus Christi's unsolved homicides, the violence is grief-inducing |
1:30.2 | and haunting, with no clear end in sight. |
1:34.6 | For them the victim's murder feels forgotten, and they might feel absolutely powerless |
1:39.8 | to change that, or any other outcome that might provide their loved one justice, and |
1:46.0 | them maybe some semblance of peace. |
1:50.0 | The friends and family of 33-year-old Gary Gillette and 24-year-old Stephanie Smith Gillette, |
1:57.1 | victims of a savage double murder by knife and hatchet as they slept in 1985, continued |
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