The Deck

Mary Kathleen Rodriguez (5 of Spades, Texas)

August 19, 2026·37 min·6-min readnarrativetrue crime
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The episode investigates the 1990 unsolved murder of Mary Kathleen Rodriguez, a 26-year-old live-in nanny beaten to death in Odessa, Texas, under mysterious circumstances. Despite compelling circumstantial evidence pointing to her employers, Etta and Eddie Bryant, no charges were ever fil

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Mary Kathleen RodriguezCarl RogersEddie BryantBilly VincentBambi MarkerDr. Ralph ErdmanDr. Sparks VeazeyAmy RodriguezPaul Ryburn

Topics

Cold CasesCriminal JusticeForensicsInvestigative JournalismMissing PersonsTrue Crime

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