Doe: ID 'New York Billy' Clarence Wilson

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Episode 103 Doe: ID 'New York Billy' Clarence Wilson

In 1986, the body of a man was pulled from Crater Lake in Montgomery TX 40 miles North of Houston. It soon became clear to investigators that he was the victim of a homicide having been shot multiple times, and his body weighed down with cinder blocks. Due to the injuries the man had suffered along with the water exposure and decomposition, police were unable to ID the man. He did have a couple tattoos, but it was not enough to help police give him his name back. Somehow, police came to believe that the dead man went by the street name "New York Billy' but they didn't have much else, and he was laid to rest; buried with little hope of him ever being identified, or his killer caught. Years later as DNA Science evolved, police exhumed the man's body and used genealogy to finally ID him after decades. It turned out that New York Billy was actually Clarence Wilson who would have been 34 years old when he was found. He was living in Texas after a falling out with family back in Modesto, CA. He was last known by his family to be alive in 1985.

Now the police know who New York Billy is, but they don't know who killed him or why. That part of the mystery remains, but police are working hard to provide answers. 'New York Billy' finally has his name back; it's Clarence Wilson, and this is his story

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2:19.9	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. Thank you. On August 3, 1986, at around 5 p.m., three residents of Cleveland, Texas, were on the shores of Crater Lake near FM 3083 and Exxon Road in the four corners area of Montgomery County. The trio was revisiting their old hangout when they saw something floating just under the surface of the murky
2:24.5	water. It looked like a person. They called the police after driving to a phone and led Montgomery
2:29.9	County deputies and fire department personnel to the lake. It was the body of a man, partially submerged
2:36.1	in the water. When he was pulled to shore by firemen using a boat, they saw that his body had been
2:41.4	weighted down by two large construction cinder blocks tied to his body with electrical cord. Decomposition gases
2:47.9	had caused his body to swell and become buoyant, despite the cinder blocks,
2:51.9	which were presumably intended to prevent him from ever being found. The dead man had a visible
2:57.5	gunshot wound to the head from what appeared to be a small caliber gun. Deputies searched the pockets
3:03.2	of his genes for any identification, but there was none. No personal items were found other than
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