Texas cases, told with grit and context.
All Crime No Cattle follows murder cases and disappearances rooted in Texas, from society scandals to revenge killings. The tone pairs careful source work with casual back-and-forth, letting complicated timelines feel readable without sanding off the horror.
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All Crime No Cattle is a Texas true-crime series shaped by long-form case storytelling and an easy conversational partnership. The show favors detail. Recent episodes move through home invasions, political revenge, recorded violence, a family disappearance, and a high-profile death with a patient eye for sequence and consequence. Cases often begin with a clear setup, then widen into money trails, court records, family testimony, law enforcement decisions, and unexpected pieces of physical evidence. A storage unit becomes a turning point. A phone call changes the texture of a murder plot. A medical timeline raises new questions. A witness sitting on evidence for days becomes part of the moral pressure of the case. The show is especially attentive to how Texas institutions appear inside these stories, from prosecutors and sheriffs to Texas Rangers, FBI agents, newspapers, and county politics. It also understands place. Texas locations are not interchangeable backdrops; they give the cases their social and geographic shape. Shay and Erin keep the delivery grounded with questions, clarifications, and reactions that mirror how a listener might process each turn. The tone can be warm around the edges, but the cases themselves remain dark. Episodes are willing to spend time on illness, coercion, greed, power, family dependency, and the awful logistics of violence. That balance matters. The show does not sound like a cold dossier, yet it is too source-conscious to become loose campfire retelling. Multi-part episodes give the biggest stories room to breathe, especially when motives, legal jeopardy, and investigative mistakes pile up over years. All Crime No Cattle is best for listeners who like true crime with structure, context, and regional texture, carried by speakers who can move from courthouse detail to a sharp moment of disbelief without losing the thread.
Made for: Built for true-crime listeners who prefer detailed timelines, legal twists, and regional context over quick-hit summaries. It especially suits anyone interested in Texas murder cases, legal drama, and investigative turning points.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its Texas specificity: local newspapers, county politics, law enforcement handoffs, road distances, and community ties all matter to the storytelling. Shay and Erin add conversational momentum without letting the case details blur.
A conversational true crime podcast all about Texas hosted by natives Shea and Erin. We cover cases from the Lone Star State, big and small. New episodes drop weekly for your listening pleasure. Because crime is bigger in Texas, y'all.
A Texas storage-unit door opens, and your guess gets tested before the answer lands.
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["All Crime, No Cattle's Ep 100, 'Revenge in Kauffman County, Part II,' picks up the Mark Hasse case and the killings of Mike and Cynthia McClelland in Forney, Texas.", "Shay and Erin trace how a late-January 2013 courthouse shooting triggered a multi-agency task force, then how Easter weekend security lapses left the McClellands exposed.", "The episode follows the discovery of 20 .223 shell casings, a white Crown Victoria, positive gunshot residue on Eric Williams, and LexisNexis searches for prosecutors' names and home addresses.", "It then turns to Crime Stoppers messages, a terroristic-threat arrest, and a storage unit full of police gear, homemade napalm, and AR-15 parts that tighten the case against Williams."]
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