This episode includes discussion of violence, murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault of a minor.

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen.

On August 24, 1978, Edward Harold Bell drove to Pasadena, Texas, a suburb nestled between Houston and Galveston.

He parked his truck on a street where a group of children were playing, walked up to them,

and exposed himself. One of the kids' fathers watched it happen. Larry Dickens, a 26-year-old

Marine veteran.

Larry ran over to confront Bell.

He leaned into Bell's truck and grabbed his keys,

attempting to detain the predatory stranger while his mother, Dorothy, called the police.

She reported everything to the dispatcher as it all unfolded.

She watched Bell pull a handgun from his truck and fire.

He shot at my son, she said, begging officers to hurry.

Bell shot Larry multiple times, but he was still alive and able to crawl into his mother's open garage.

As he did, Bell walked back to his pickup.

He sat the handgun inside and pulled out a rifle.

He stalked back up the Dickens driveway and into the garage, where Dorothy was holding

her wounded son.

Then Dorothy watched Bell put the rifle up to Larry's head and fatally shoot her son before driving away.

With the murder happening publicly in broad daylight, police had everything they needed to find Bell.

They made an arrest before he could leave Pasadena.

Now, you might think Bell wouldn't live another day as a free man after that,

but that's not what happened. No, he posted bail and fled to Costa Rica, then Panama, and he spent

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