Ep 71: The Texas Staircase, Accident or Murder?

All Crime No Cattle

True Crime, History

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In 1988, Tyler socialite and millionaire Bette Lucas passed away suddenly her home from a massive head wound and brain damage. Her son Steven claimed that her death was a tragic accident due to a fall from her 2nd story landing but her autopsy suggested that she had been bludgeoned. We will discuss Bette's injuries, the details of her fall, and the scene of the alleged crime in this episode where forensics meets physics.

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0:30.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of All Crime No Cattle, the Texas True Crime
0:44.0	Podcast that is coming to you this week from Quarantine.
0:49.3	And I just want to thank everyone for pausing their binging of Tiger King on Netflix so
0:54.2	that you could join us for this week's episode.
0:56.4	It's going to be a good one.
0:58.0	I, of course, am Shay and across from me is Aaron the Bone Lady and Aaron, why don't you
1:01.6	tell us what we got going this week?
1:03.6	Well, I am very excited to present this case to you all this week.
1:08.3	Most of you probably know the story of Kathleen Peterson.
1:11.9	Her death in 2001 was the subject of the documentary, The Staircase, that followed the murder trials
1:17.7	of Michael Peterson, her husband.
1:20.4	In that case, the prosecution charged that Michael had bledioned Kathleen as she walked
1:25.3	up the staircase in the couple's North Carolina home, while Michael's defense argued that
1:30.2	Kathleen had received her injuries from accidentally falling down the staircase.
1:35.9	Well a very similar story played out right here in Texas, 13 years earlier in 1988, where
1:43.0	an wealthy woman died on a staircase.
1:46.7	Whether her death was an accident due to a very unlucky fall or at the hands of a loved
1:51.3	one who beat her to death, is the central question in this case as well.
1:56.4	Here too, we will have competing expert testimony with some stating that the victim's injuries
2:01.3	could have resulted from a fall, and others saying that the injuries clearly resulted from
2:06.2	a bludgeoning with an unknown weapon.
2:09.5	And just like in the Kathleen Peterson case, the alleged murder weapon was discovered
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