60. The Power Couple Murder Mystery
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In this episode, Payton dives into the case of Joan and John Hill, a glamorous couple at the height of Houston society, who become entangled in one of the city's most notorious murder mysteries in the 1960s.

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Case Sources:

Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson

ABC13 - https://abc13.com/texas-true-crime-river-oaks-murder-mystery-joan-robinson-hill-john/13235480/

Texas Archive of the Moving Image - https://texasarchive.org/2015_02478

San Antonio Express News - https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/joan-hill-poisoned-eclair-17872258.php

PBS - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/etc/cali.html 

New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/05/30/texas-doctor-who-killed-wife-with-poisoned-pastry-was-eventually-gunned-down-in-murder-for-hire-as-sordid-story-later-became-made-for-tv-movie-starring-sam-elliott-and-farrah-fawcett/

Casemine - https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914c4f2add7b049347d0da0

UPI - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/24/Blood-money-and-toxic-shock/8198343890000/

Johns Hopkins Medicine - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/toxic-shock-syndrome-tss

The National Library of Medicine - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6306933/

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