Blood Will Tell: The Trial of Texas Tycoon T. Cullen Davis

Blood Will Tell: The Trial of Texas Tycoon T. Cullen Davis

In 1976, a gunman walked through the largest privately-owned home in the United States and shot four people. Two of them died. The man charged was T. Cullen Davis — heir to a Texas oil fortune, one of the wealthiest men in America, and by every account, a man who believed the rules did not apply to him. What followed were two of the most expensive, most watched, and most controversial murder trials in Texas history. He was acquitted both times. Gary Cartwright’s Blood Will Tell is the book. This episode is the reckoning. Crude Acts is a Texas true crime podcast covering cases drawn from nonfiction books. Season 4: Murder in Print.

Run Brother Run: Hitman Charles Harrelson & The Berg Murder

Houston true crime. A contract killing. A rigged trial. And the most dangerous defense attorney in Texas. In 1968, Alan Berg — a Houston carpet salesman — was lured to the parking lot of the Brass Jug on Sin Alley, forced into a car, and murdered for hire. His body was found six months later in a cedar grove off County Road 257 between Surfside and Galveston, clad in one shoe, a coat, trousers and a belt. He was 31 years old. Charles Harrelson — the contract killer who would later assassinate a federal judge — pulled the trigger for $1,500. Percy Foreman, the most feared criminal defense attorney in America, represented both Harrelson and the man who allegedly ordered the hit. The eyewitness was Sandra Sue Attaway, who had worked at Houston's Cork Club — the same private club where Ash Robinson drank and Joan Robinson Hill was a regular. Foreman destroyed her testimony with a single legal argument. Both men walked free. This week on Crude Acts, we're covering David Berg's memoir Run Brother Run — the book Berg spent forty years waiting to write about his brother Alan's murder, the 1970 Angleton trial, DA Ogden Bass, and the Houston organized crime infrastructure that made all of it possible. If you've been following our Blood and Money deep dive this season, this episode is the connective tissue. Same lawyers. Same city. One year apart. Key names: Alan Berg, Charles Harrelson, Percy Foreman, Racehorse Haynes, Sandra Sue Attaway, Frank DiMaria, Nathan Berg, Robert Leonard, Dennis Weadock, Crawford Booth, Ogden Bass Key locations: Brass Jug Club Houston, Sin Alley Houston, Cork Club Shamrock Hotel, Imperial Carpets Montrose, Surfside Island, Brazoria County, Angleton Texas Crude Acts is a Texas true crime podcast covering organized crime, corruption, and the cases that shaped the Gulf Coast. New episodes every week.

Blood and Money: The Mysterious Death of Joan Robinson Hill

Crude Acts digs into Thomas Thompson’s landmark true crime book Blood and Money, the 1976 bestseller that shocked Texas. Host Jen Schaffer investigates the Joan Robinson Hill case: a suspicious death, a grieving father with dangerous connections, and a story Houston’s elite tried to bury. New episodes every [day]. Houston true crime | Texas cold case | true crime podcast | Blood and Money | Joan Robinson Hill | Ash Robinson | Thomas Thompson | true crime history

What This Case Leaves Behind - The Syndicate Part 7

True Crime deep dive into Dean Corll and his connections to a wider crime Syndicate is wrapped up in this episode. Next season will be out soon!!

When the Story Starts to Expand - The Syndicate Part 6

Epstein files illegal activity is nothing new. Our examination of the Syndicate proves it. In this episode we talk about Serial Killer Dean Corll's victim Jeff Konen on our search to find proof of whether or not the Candyman was apart of something bigger.