Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. I'm Fritz. And I have some exciting news. Last week, we officially shared that we are hitting the road for a crime junkie tour. And today I'm excited to tell you that tickets are officially on sale. We're so excited to see you guys in just a few short months. and I cannot wait to bring you seriously, like, the wildest case, Ashley, like, and to do it in person.

I know. You guys can find a full list of tour stops and purchase tickets to a show near you on our website.

Crime junkiepodcast.com. Listen, the best I can, like, tell you is to get it now

because how many of yours is, it's been five years. It'll be six years since we're on tour again.

We might wait another six years. If you want to see us in the flesh, do a show. This is it.

And six years ago, tickets sold super, super fast. Oh, yeah. Venues are bigger this time, but we sold out, like...

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tickets, let me jump into our story. It's a big one. This story that I have for you today is about the

people we trust to steer the ship of justice and those who sometimes get swallowed up in their wake.

This is the story of the Lake Waco murders.

Music You know, Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons isn't your standard American cop.

He is a go at it alone man.

Thing is, law enforcement is a group sport.

You got to be able to play well with others and play by the rules.

So being more rebel than ride or die hasn't always endeared him to his brothers in blue.

But in his 17 years on the force, his record of closing tough cases is second to none.

So this guy's not here to make friends. And people kind of know that about him by now.

When the radio and his patrol car crackles to life early in the evening of July 14, 1982,

and dispatch directs him another officer and a special investigator to one of the parks on the shores of Lake Waco, he can read between the lines. Chances are this is something serious because special investigators are the big guns.

They don't get called out for just anything.

Just then, dispatch radio is over again and says that they're responding to a quote-unquote

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