Criminal

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The Informant

Episode #379

2026-09-04 05:00:06

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In 1978, an investigator in the Harris County DA’s office in Houston got a call from an old friend. He told the investigator that he was in jail, that he wanted him to come pick him up — and that he had some information about a case that he thought the investigator would be very interested in.

Pamela Colloff’s book is Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast.

Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.