The Gone Cole Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.

Listener discretion is advised. Daddy. Stabbings and hatchet killing are personal. To go and stab somebody in somebody's home,

that's an up-closed personal crime.

You can have something different every once in a while, but there's personal

intimacy most of the time. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you know. You're going to do.

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and do you Corpus Christi Police were called to the home of Gary and Stephanie Gillette.

On Sunday, December 15, 1985, by a friend of the couple who told them he was worried about

them, since he'd been trying to reach them, that in the previous day, to no avail. In the Gillette home, police were aghast to find Stephanie and

Gary murdered, both bludgeoned in the head with a hatchet and stabbed repeatedly.

Their partially clad bodies were found in the master bedroom of their home on Sweet Prior Circle.

Homicide detectives, crime scene investigators, and the New Aiech. County coroner swarmed the scene.

The coroner's van backed up to the garage, shrouding Gary and Stephanie's bodies as they were placed in the vehicle,

to spare neighbors, onlookers, and Gary's ex-wife and daughter, the gruesome

sight.

The slangs, of course, had a tremendous impact on the residents of Corpus Christi and surrounding areas.

The entire community was affected by the talk and rumors of a madman on the loose.

Gene and Tina Bowman were friends and business associates of Gary and Stephanie.

On the Thursday night before the Christmas party, Gary and Stephanie were with them at their home in Beefel, Texas, which is about an hour drive from Corpus Christi.

They were to spend the night there, but at some point during that night, Gary and Stephanie left the Bowmen's. It wasn't anything unusual as Gary

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