😎🤘 You can now WATCH MrBallen Podcast videos the same day they drop on all podcast platforms on my main channel 👉 ⁨ @MrBallen In 2004, a woman living in Nashville, Tennessee, was sitting up in her bed one night trying to get some homework done for a Bible study class. As she sat there, she started to feel tired and so she decided to call it a night. She bookmarked the page she was one and leaned over to put her Bible on the bed side table, when she suddenly froze. The house was supposed to be empty, her family was out for the night... but now, standing at the foot of her bed was a person, just staring up at her... and this person was dead. For 100s more stories like this one, check out my YouTube channel just called @MrBallen -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen . . . . Note about our content: We do not do any original reporting. The stories we tell are based on events that we research and describe using existing source material. While we make every effort to use the best quality sources we can access within our production deadlines, and while we make every effort to verify facts through multiple sources, we do make occasional mistakes, and we cannot verify the accuracy of the source material we use. Please note that creative liberties have been taken in the creation and presentation of the material on which we have based this podcast. . . . . SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT: Main Sources: Pictures of Angela https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20039765/angela-marie-samota Court transcripts and police report Bess versus Texas https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/court-of-criminal-appeals/2013/ap-76-377.html Bess versus Davis (more court testimony from Ben McCall) https://casetext.com/case/bess-v-davis-1 POlice report on Angela Samota’s murder: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/read-orignal-police-report-angie-samota-flna820561 Inmate information https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/viewDetail.action?sid=01342729 Historical newspaper articles: Few leads in Angela’s death Port Arthur News, October 15, 1984,Pg. 8, Port Arthur, Texas, US https://newspaperarchive.com/port-arthur-news-oct-15-1984-p-8/ Possible link to Angela’s murder Galveston Daily News, October 16, 1984,Pg. 4, Galveston, Texas, US https://newspaperarchive.com/galveston-daily-news-oct-16-1984-p-4/ Probe, reward turn up nothing Wichita Falls Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) · Thu, Dec 13, 1984 · Page 22 https://www.newspapers.com/image/781958254 Feature article about Sheila Wysocki The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) · Thu, Mar 8, 2012 · Page A1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/218619734 Feature article about Russell Buchanan San Angelo Standard-Times (San Angelo, Texas) · Sun, Oct 7, 2012 · Page 30 https://www.newspapers.com/image/791788082 Forensics Forensic evidence (interactive) https://prezi.com/p/-bix8axla0ki/forensics-final-mayson-kobell/?fallback=1 Sheila Gibbons Wysocki BBC article about Sheila (excellent) https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44470377 TN Ledger on SW https://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=121006 Sheila Wysocki https://www.sheilawysocki.com/gallery Sheila and Angela https://fortworthbusiness.com/government/her-friends-brutal-murder-in-dallas-was-unsolved-for-decades-this-is-how-she-helped-find-the-killer/ Sheila Wysocki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7MbSCo-QtE&t=322s Feb 21, 2018 Documentaries Dateline June 8, 2012 https://archive.org/details/WRC_20120609_010000_Dateline_NBC/start/7020/end/7080 I solved a murder documentary https://www.amazon.com/Sheila-Wysocki/dp/B00BM2KKFU/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1IOKGAQ9IEUVG&keywords=sheila+wysocki+i+solved+a+murder&qid=1659478968&sprefix=sheila+wysocki+i+solved+a+murder%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-3 Oxygen documentary S2 E11 https://www.nbc.com/murdered-by-morning/video/game-over/9000215639