I'm Ashley and I'm Lacey.

And this is United States of Murders' very own Wacky Wednesday.

Wacky 145.

I think.

Here we go. I have one in a poll. My first one's kind of long, so

I'm going to go first. Sounds good. In an area outside Houston, a passerby, is this your story?

I thought it was at first, but no, it's not, but it's Texas. A passerby made a gruesome discovery. Inside a smoldering car,

he found the body that was burned, re-on recognition. The CSI unit was called and began searching

for clues. The car belonged to 48-year-old Mary Morris, who lived three miles away. Her husband Jay had not been able

to reach her since she left for work earlier that day. Within a few hours, detectives delivered

the news that the victim in the car was Mary Morris. The condition of the body made it impossible

to determine how she was killed.

The police could not determine a motive.

She had a lot of friends, a very successful career, and no known enemies.

So three days after Mary Morris's death, the case took a strange turn.

Not far from where her body had been found, another woman was

viciously murdered. She was also killed in her car, and her name was also Mary Morris. Hmm. So two women

named Mary Morris both found murdered in their cars in the Houston area three days apart. Both were

very similar physically. Okay. They looked alike. Detectives tried to piece together the events

leading up to the death of the second victim. Mary McGinnis Morris, also 39, and like Mary Lou Morris, she was a successful professional with lots of friends.

She was a nurse practitioner and in charge of several clinics for a major industrial corporation.

According to her friend Lori, she got along long wheel with everyone on her staff except for one

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