In February 1961, Houston high society violently collided with the city’s underground margins.

What started as a $30 encounter ended with a wealthy real estate tycoon shot six times, doused in high-octane gasoline, and set ablaze in a vacant lot.

​This week on Homocidal Tendency, Matt shifts gears from our recent heavy cases to dive into one of the most absurd, chaotic, and heavily sensationalized true crime stories in Texas history.

Welcome to the saga of the "Beatnik Killers."

​We break down the chaotic shootout between Fred Tones, a 17-year-old runaway named Carolyn Lima, and a fiercely protective transgender sex worker named Leslie Douglas Ashley.

We track their adrenaline-fueled getaway to the French Quarter for Mardi Gras, the massive FBI manhunt that tracked them to New York City, and the explosive 1960s media circus that followed.

​This is a stranger-than-fiction true crime case involving a military bayonet, a death row countdown, and the birth of a fiercely unapologetic LGBTQ+ political icon.

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