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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 1

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the moonlight hours of April 11th, 1976, gunshots rang out in the small, suburban town of Terrell Hills, Texas. Many heard or were awakened by the terrifying commotion, and while some might have believed there was some trouble at the nearby bar, the shots actually occurred in a home there. The home of 38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein, who was found the following day lying in a pool of blood. Divorced the previous year after a long and abusive marriage, Joyce was no stranger to tragedy. She’d seen plenty in her short life. But who would want her dead? According to newspaper articles written by hack reporters foaming at the mouth to get creative off someone else’s tragedy, there were plenty of people. Part 1 of 3.

If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009

Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. Gutierrez

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0:00.0

The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion

0:06.8

is advised.

0:10.6

Imagine being murdered in cold blood in your own home, and the local media treating your

0:16.0

death as the latest sensational story.

0:20.2

In articles about your slang, imagine creative writers disguised as reporters using descriptions

0:27.6

such as sexy divorcee, exhibitionist, and exceedingly well-stacked.

0:35.4

Imagine one new story written about your death, claimed that police found nude pictures

0:41.0

that would make hustler readers cringe.

0:44.6

With headlines like Negligé Mystery House and divorcee had little black book articles

0:52.2

about you are written to draw folks in, not to make the public aware of your tragedy

0:57.6

or tragic death, and that there is a killer on the loose.

1:01.2

Rather, the stories are carefully crafted to scandalize your life and air what they

1:07.1

deem your dirty laundry in a way that sounds as if you might have deserved the brutal murder.

1:14.7

In some little way, at least.

1:17.8

These aren't just the local rags read only by the morbidly curious among your city's

1:23.7

residents, reporting you're killing in this way, but also the respected news outlets

1:29.7

in town.

1:31.3

The ones whose reporters rant sanctimoniously back and forth to one another about journalistic

1:37.5

standards and ethics.

1:40.1

The outlets where everyone gets their news.

1:44.2

Now imagine the people who you loved and who loved you, seeing these headlines, reading

1:50.5

these stories and turning on the television to watch the nightly news only to see your

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