MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

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.

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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. 

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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

Internet articles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Angela_Samota

About angela–book of daniel/name of parents

https://sites.psu.edu/passionblogeliot/2022/03/20/angela-samota/

Sportskeeda article

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/what-happened-angela-samota-oxygen-s-murdered-morning-revisit-gruesome-1984-texas-murder

The case of Angela Samota: The Medium

https://medium.com/@writermsmith/the-case-of-angela-samota-9ba5a0b9eba6

The criminal JOurnal: 

https://www.thecriminaljournal.com/angela-samota-the-murder-of-a-20-year-old-college-student-by-donald-bess-who-stabbed-her-18-times/

Vintage cold cases

https://vintagecoldcases.tumblr.com/post/624366113595211776/tw-crime-scene-photos-angela-marie-samota-was

Death record Frank samota

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/12705965:60525?tid=&pid=&queryId=e39d145203b10ae94b28f24b9ef2f566&_phsrc=lRz1&_phstart=successSource

Betty Samota obituary

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/betty-samota-obituary?id=31718713

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