Episode 223: Nancy DePriest | Austin's Pizza Hut Murder

Episode 223: Nancy DePriest | Austin's Pizza Hut Murder

Author: True Crime Couple January 31, 2026 Duration: 1:41:38

The city of Austin found itself in a predicament in late 1988. A horrific crime was committed against a young mother in broad daylight, in a well known establishment on a busy street. The unsolved crime would largely impact the city’s reputation for having the lowest crime rate of all of Texas’s great cities…so it was time to solve the murder of Nancy DePriest, let’s see how they did it.

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