The Runaway
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The faces of Janice Pockett, Lisa White, and Debbie Spickler appear side by side on one missing persons flier that continues to be posted around town to this day. The public and media have always grouped these cases together. Three young girls, suddenly gone. Yet that is where the similarities stop. Recently uncovered documents help clear up the misinformation that’s been reported on 13-year-old Debbie Spickler’s case for over 50 years, and reveals a whole new web of mysteries that takes us in an entirely new direction.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood. |
| 0:09.2 | This is silenced, the radio murders. |
| 0:12.4 | You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do. |
| 0:17.2 | The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness. |
| 0:24.4 | And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy. |
| 0:30.8 | I was voluptuous. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHeart radio app, |
| 0:36.0 | Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.4 | Paper Ghost is a production of iHeart radio. |
| 0:46.4 | Previously on Paper Ghosts. |
| 0:49.8 | I think it's weird that you know pretty much the whole time he lived out there, |
| 0:53.7 | girls were disappearing and then he moved and it stopped. |
| 0:57.2 | You know people always said oh you're a lucky one, you found your person. We did. |
| 1:02.2 | Right. And you know in our heart of hearts we also know who did it. |
| 1:07.2 | Someone goes missing today. I mean you have number one electronic error. So cell phones. |
| 1:12.8 | There's just so much. I mean facial recognition even though it's in its infancy. It's hard. |
| 1:17.1 | So we find people pretty quickly today. You know it's unusual for somebody missing more than a few days. |
| 1:22.0 | He got really mad at me on time. And he said if you don't want to |
| 1:26.3 | to go to end up like your sister. |
| 1:29.0 | My name is Emolium Phelps. This is Paper Ghosts. |
| 1:41.7 | As I make progress learning all I can about the La Rosa family, I cannot stop thinking about |
| 1:47.1 | the other missing girls I've been searching for. I mentioned in an earlier episode how the |
| 1:52.9 | neighboring towns of Elington, Vernon and Tylon Connecticut were on high alert in 1973. |
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