This is Episode 3 in our murder at Lake Waco series, the trigger warning for our listeners.

This series contains gruesome depictions of murders and mentions of sexual assault.

We advise proceeding with caution.

Gell Kelly was no fan of policemen, but she was less a fan of Lucky Deeb, her former

employer, who had just admitted to Kelly, Kenneth Franks, Jill Montgomery, and Raylene

Rice in the wooded area around Lake Waco.

Though he brushed it off as a joke, Gell didn't believe him.

She saw the look in his eyes and knew she was looking at a killer.

That night she got home and found Truman Simmons, telling him how deep new details he had

no business knowing and how the bank was about to foreclose on his shop so he was soon

going to leave Texas.

Simmons knew the man, or at least knew of him.

Midnight shifts would often bring Simmons to the Skag's supermarket, where he joined

his friend Willie Tomkins for a cup of coffee.

Willie, a former policeman, now a Baptist minister, moonlighted as a night security guard

to make ends meet.

Despite that change in profession, Willie's love for police work still lingered, and Simmons

always hoped he'd return someday.

On one such visit, sipping a coffee in the early hours of the morning, Simmons met

Manier Mohamed Deeb, who had come to the shop with two young women, Casey and Carrie

Roe.

Tomkins nudged Simmons shoulder and prompted him to look at the young crowd that had

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