Ep 89: The Huntsville Prison Siege, Part I

All Crime No Cattle

True Crime, History

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Huntsville Prison Siege of 1974 was one of the longest hostage-taking events in U.S. history. Three prisoners, led by heroin kingpin Federico Carrasco, carried out an armed takeover of the educational complex at the Huntsville Unit and managed to hold over a dozen hostages captive for 11 excruciating days. The siege would end with a bizarre escape plan, a bloody gunfight, and the deaths of four people.

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0:30.0	Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of All Crime No Cattle.
0:45.0	I am Shay and I'm Aaron.
0:47.7	And today we will be discussing part one of a two part series that Aaron has been working
0:52.7	very diligently on.
0:54.9	And at the end of the episode we will also go over some recent updates on the Haley Dunn
0:58.9	case which we covered on episode 16, three years ago.
1:02.6	So stay tuned for that.
1:04.6	So take it away Aaron.
1:06.0	Well thank you Shay.
1:08.6	I've done it again.
1:09.6	I've learned too much to crime it all into one episode.
1:13.4	So we have a very interesting two part again for you with the second part coming out next
1:18.1	week.
1:19.1	I promise.
1:20.9	This might be one of the most fascinating historical events in recent history in the
1:25.7	Texas prison system and I don't think it's a story that many people know about.
1:30.4	I certainly didn't myself until I went down the rabbit hole.
1:34.1	That is this story, the 1974 Huntsville prison siege.
1:39.7	Now we've talked about the Huntsville unit, Texas's oldest and most well-known penitentiary,
1:44.8	a lot on the show for obvious reasons.
1:48.4	But it's usually only in the context of describing where a particular person was sent after
1:53.2	being convicted of a serious crime.
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