When two drifters were apprehended states apart in 1983, one began confessing to any and every unsolved murder under the hot Texas sun and beyond. Though the slaying of Clarence Ray Hudgins in Gregg County, Texas had all the signs of a well-planned out hit, and these two drifters’ crimes were nothing of the sort, Texas Ranger Glenn Elliot still wanted to explore the possibility that Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Elwood Toole were responsible. Spoiler: they were not.

If you have any information about the assassination of Clarence Ray Hudgins, please contact Gregg County Crime Stoppers at 903-236-7867.

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Sources for this episode include the documents supplied to us by Ray Hudgins’s Mother Kathryn as well as The Waco Tribune-Herald, The Washington Times, The Kilgore News-Herald, The Tyler Morning-Telegraph, The United Press International Archives, TexasRanger.Org, and the Longview News-Journal

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