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This Is Monsters

The Doctrine of Chances : William Felix Vail

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Season 21 : Strange & Unusual

When an eight-year-old boy told the police that his father had killed his mother when he was just a baby, the officers just shrugged it off. When two more women disappeared, they finally started investigating the crime that had happened 50 years prior.

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In the town of Livingston, California, 1970, an eight-year-old boy showed up at the police station

0:06.9

and told officers that his father had killed his mother and made it look like an accidental

0:11.6

drowning. He said it had happened in Louisiana in 1962 when he was only four months old.

0:19.1

Officers didn't take him seriously. How would he know what happened on the other side of the country when he was only four months old. Officers didn't take him seriously.

0:21.9

How would he know what happened on the other side of the country when he was an infant?

0:26.2

He was shrugged off, but he didn't give up.

0:28.8

He remained at the police station until a detective got him and took his statement.

0:33.7

Though it definitely was hard to believe that the kid was telling the truth, he was.

0:38.8

But the crime wouldn't be investigated for another 40 years, after two more women went missing and were presumed dead.

0:47.3

This is Monsters.

1:21.6

Music Willie William Felix Vale, who went by Felix, was born on August 19, 1939 in Montpelier, Mississippi.

1:27.1

His parents, Ray and Nell Vale were dairy farmers, and he had four siblings. He was a decent student getting

1:29.7

good grades and he was a very strong farmer. He won a corn growing contest when he was 16,

1:35.5

producing 130 bushels on five acres, more than any other farmer in the county. His initial dream

1:42.9

was to become a pilot in the military, but he was turned

1:45.9

down by recruiters. They determined that he wasn't the type of person who would follow orders and would

1:51.5

likely be a disciplinary problem. His uncle helped him line up a job at a refinery in Sulphur, Louisiana,

1:58.7

and he moved before he even graduated from high school.

2:02.5

He would end up taking classes to get his diploma at a later time.

2:07.0

The job paid well, so he had a nice car and a motorcycle which he used to cruise the local college

2:12.7

campus and pick up girls. That's where he met Mary Horton.

2:21.4

Mary was born on February 16, 1940, in Eunice, Louisiana. Once she had graduated from high school, she began attending McNeese State

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