240 - Latricia White and Lee & Chance Wackerhagen
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 5 May 2024
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Summary
Investigators soon learned of Lee Wackerhagen, Latricia's live in boyfriend, who was nowhere to be found. Not only was Lee missing, but so was his nine year old son, Chance. Days later, Lee's abandoned truck was found in east Austin, the bed smeared with blood. It didn't take long for detectives to determine Wackerhagen had killed Latricia and fled, abducting his son in the process.
For twenty long years that is exactly as the case remained until a cold case investigator with the Texas Rangers found several problems with the original investigation. In 2016, the Texas Department of Public Safety officially announced they now believed that Lee and Chance were both victims of foul play, likely at the hand of Latricia's killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Two days after Christmas of 1993, 38-year-old Latisha White was found shot to death in bed at her rural Central Texas home. |
| 0:19.0 | While investigators quickly determined that the nurse and mother of two had been |
| 0:23.7 | killed in her sleep they could not account for her living boyfriend Lee Walker |
| 0:28.2 | Hagen and his nine-year-old son Chance. Three days later, after finding Lee's truck abandoned Denise Austin with blood in the bed, authorities obtained a warrant charging him with first-degree murder. |
| 0:42.0 | It was simple, investigators thought. |
| 0:45.0 | The couple had argued, and after murdering Latisha, Lee had fled and committed a non-custodial |
| 0:50.8 | abduction of his son. |
| 0:53.0 | For more than 20 years, that is exactly as the case remained. |
| 0:58.0 | However, in May of 2016, the Texas Rangers released a statement that completely turned the case on its head. |
| 1:05.8 | No longer was Lee the prime suspect and instead they now believed that both he and Chants |
| 1:12.4 | had likely been killed the same day as Latisha. |
| 1:16.3 | As it turned out, there was another possible suspect who the original investigators had completely |
| 1:21.6 | ignored for reasons that no one can yet understand. investigators had |
| 1:25.0 | a completely ignored for reasons that no one can yet understand. Latrish's ex-husband, with whom she'd had a hostile divorce and was at the time |
| 1:31.0 | engaged in a bitter custody dispute. This is Trace Evidence |
| 1:36.1 | episode 240, the murder of Letitia White and the disappearances of Lee and |
| 1:42.1 | Chance Walkerhagen. and the |
| 1:43.0 | walkerhagen. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to Tress Hagen. |
| 1:48.0 | Welcome to Trace Evidence. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm your host Stephen Pacheco. |
| 1:55.0 | Today we examine a mysterious and heartbreaking crime that left a young mother dead |
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