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Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the True Crime combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | — | #187 |
| Oct 26 | — | #191 |
| Oct 25 | — | #182 |
| Oct 24 | #198 | #181 |
| Oct 23 | #185 | #168 |
| Oct 22 | #197 | #179 |
| Oct 21 | — | #196 |
| Oct 19 | — | #198 |
| Oct 17 | — | #195 |
| Oct 14 | — | #197 |
Latest episodes
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The Bodies Were Shaking
December 24, 2025 · 57 minIn this final episode of the season, Phelps tracks down someone who claims to know what happened to Shelly and Vincent: where and how they were murdered, who killed them, and why. And this source ain’t no stranger … he’s kin to Shelly…
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Oh My God... What Kind of Mess is This?
December 17, 2025 · 55 minAs Phelps keeps digging, new sources come forward. Has all of this been some sort of witch hunt to pin the murders on two innocent men, so the real killers walk free? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Frosty the Ice Man
December 10, 2025 · 46 minSmall-town rumor and speculation seem to dominate discourse in Weatherford. Phelps has to ask: is Wendy Robinson’s murder connected to Vincent and Shelly’s? When Wendy’s case is finally solved, serial killers are in the mix, Phelps…
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He Went to Sleep Forever
December 3, 2025 · 45 minAs Phelps seems to be getting somewhere with Shelly and Vincent’s case, another teenager is found murdered and sexually assaulted, changing the dynamic and path of his investigation considerably. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
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Like Bodies Through a Meat Grinder
November 26, 2025 · 56 minPhelps dives deeper, trying to separate fact from rumor, while new suspects come into play—and a third teen murder rocks the town of Weatherford. But could a noted serial killer be responsible for Vincent and Shelly’s murders? See…
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Bump Monkeys
November 19, 2025 · 55 minAs Phelps interviews sources connected to the Weatherford teen murders, including law enforcement working the case at the time, two new theories emerge—sending him deep into a dark, dangerous underworld straight out of Breaking Bad…
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Until My Last Dying Breath
November 12, 2025 · 50 minPhelps teams up with a local private investigator discovering that things are not what they seem in Weatherford, Texas… and learns peculiar new information about the case. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Piss Hill
November 5, 2025 · 53 minAs family members panic without word from teens Vincent and Shelly, Vincent’s father heads out to search for the kids. Meanwhile, a local private investigator gets involved in the case 40-plus years later and starts stirring up the…
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The Preacher's Daughter
November 5, 2025 · 56 minIn Texas: teens are dying. Two teens go missing on a March night in 1983—and that’s only the beginning. A body count of kids and teens, missing and murdered, in a county that many say is run by corrupt cops - with those at the top covering…
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Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed”
March 6, 2024 · 47 minAs the 1989 holiday season looms, Dana Stidham’s body is discovered by a local hunter in a Bella Vista creek bed. Law enforcement shifts its focus from missing person to murder… and begins to zero in on a suspect after he is arrested for a…
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Episode 2: “The Evidence of Things Not Seen”
February 28, 2024 · 48 minAs the search for Dana Stidham continues, her sudden disappearance baffles family, friends, and police, as everyone grows increasingly alarmed that Dana has met with foul play. Then, a break in the case comes as Paper Ghosts executive…
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Episode 1: “Forever Pain”
February 21, 2024 · 45 minIn the heat of the Ozarks summer, 1989, an 18-year-old woman goes missing. Dana Stidham vanishes in the middle of the day, from the parking lot of a local supermarket. Everyone in the small town of Bella Vista, Arkansas, is seemingly…
About the show
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders takes you back to 1983, when two teenagers were found murdered, execution-style, on a quiet Texas hill. What followed was decades of rumors, false leads, and a case that law enforcement could never seem to close.
Now, veteran investigative journalist M. William Phelps reopens the file — uncovering new witnesses, hidden evidence, and a shocking web of deaths that may all be connected.
Over nine gripping episodes, Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders unravels a story 42 years in the making… and asks the question: who’s really been hiding the truth?