Detective Lauren Gonzalez
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first heard Jan 2025
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I think there's maybe two photographs of the crime scene. There are no photographs of the inside of the house, just one of the outside, and then I think another of a shoe impression they saw in the dirt outside the house. It makes it hard to get a clear picture of the crime scene.
Thankfully, they at least did the sketch, but in my experience looking at cases from this time frame, that was not typical. I would never expect there to be as many photos as we have today. They were still using film, but in other cases that happened at the same time, there are a lot more photographs.
He appeared to have been shot with a small caliber bullet in the middle of the back is what they could immediately tell. It seems to be pretty close range because there are some powder burns on the wounds.
They did collect some drugs from the house. The way everything's described as being packaged, I would say, seems to be consistent with what we call today as the manufacture and delivery of illegal substances. So drug dealing, marijuana and cocaine.
They kept questioning him, and I guess they had found out that when he had initially found Marshall deceased, he had driven all the way to his brother's house, which was pretty far away on 42nd Street, before he called the police.
It sounded like screaming and yelling to him, but he could not understand the content of the argument and he just went back to sleep.
In the past, Marshall had told Tony that he, quote, had a contract out on him. And in layman's terms, what this means is what others would call a hit that someone had advertised basically a murder for hire. If someone kills him, they could get paid. And he had told her that the person who put this out on him was someone named David Golden and that he was from Dallas.
He made a statement to the effect, quote, if you take a piece of candy from a candy store and you don't pay for it, you pay for it. He paid the ultimate price.
So they asked him about it, and he said he had made that statement to someone, but he had made it in a casual conversation in jest. But when asked what he meant by the statement, he repeatedly said he had no explanation for it. He became very nervous and defensive about answering questions about that statement.
It had a payroll check in it made out to Augustine, a notice to appear from the Midland Municipal Court, a food stamp card in his name, a social security card for someone named Lupe Chacon, and a social security card for Augustine Chacon. He had a resident alien card in his name and $1,484 and one penny in cash. He had a driver's license as well.
So yeah, he said he was robbed, but I mean, he had a significant amount of cash on him for 1982.
She was calling from Fieldton, Texas. And she said that she had gotten information from some of the men that had been living with her husband at the time that he was killed. And they told her that one of the men who lived there, a man named Javier, left right after the shooting. And he was reportedly en route to stay with someone named Carlos in Barstow, Florida.
If I'm being honest, I am wondering what really happened in that house. Did it go down how everybody told police? Or is there some reason that people maybe had all their stories the same? I mean, it's possible that that really is what happened, what they said. But it's also possible that something went down and no one was going to be a snitch.
And they just had this understanding that no one was going to tell the police what really happened.
The differences could be because of the crimes themselves, but it does make me wonder if the investigation was so much smaller because they didn't have any leads to go on or it was because they didn't put in work. We could tell I maybe worked on that case a week, a week and a half, and then nothing else.
I would estimate at the time, you know, in the 80s, there were probably dozens of bars and strip clubs here. It was party town, boom town, you know, just people going out every night, partying all weekend long, blown off steam with that money that they had burning a hole in their pocket.
There was a saying back then, I think it goes something like, raise your family in Midland, raise hell in Odessa. What I hear from people that lived here at the time, worked here at the time was, oh yeah, Odessa was murder capital of the world. That's how they would describe it. People were getting stabbed and shot. You know, daily occurrences here.
People were being murdered at the bar every weekend in fights and things. Violent crime had skyrocketed here in Odessa and there was not enough police officers here. I've been told that rookie cops were literally pulled off the street to work a full murder investigation as if they were a homicide detective.
He stated he had been with Augustine at his house just before the shooting and everything seemed normal. He didn't notice anyone unfamiliar at the house when he left. Eugenio remembered him as a very hardworking man who was not involved in anything criminal.
She told me that Bertha had spent the day with her mother Lupe in Littlefield, Texas the day of the funeral. Socorro speculated that maybe something had gone on between Bertha and Augustine while he was in Odessa and his wife and kids were in Mexico. And Socorro wondered if maybe Bertha was married or had a boyfriend because she was also killed in Odessa three months after Augustine was killed.
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