Agustin Chacon, 25, and Marshall McCarthy, 37, were both shot to death in their homes in the same Odessa, Texas neighborhood on the same winter night in 1982. While Marshall’s case nearly had too many leads for investigators to chase, Agustin’s hardly had any. A language barrier between police and Agustin’s roommates made things even harder. Now, more than 40 years later, one cold case detective is working through the different challenges in each case as she tries to solve both of these men’s murders.
Episode Info
If you know anything at all about the murders of Agustin Chacon or Marshall McCarthy, or knew Agustin Chacon in Odessa in 1982, contact Detective Lauren Gonzales at 432-335-4926, or contact the Odessa Crime Stoppers if you want to remain anonymous, at (432) 333-8477.
You can also listen to the episode we mentioned on Eula “Kay” Miller here.
Please share this episode with anyone you know who lives in Odessa or may know someone who does. We have generated a transcript for this episode in Spanish as well as a digital flyer in the hopes of getting folks to come forward in Agustin’s case.

A photo of Agustin Chacon. Courtesy of the Odessa Police Department.

A photo of the house Agustin Chacon was living in Odessa, where he was fatally shot in the kitchen on March 3, 1982. Courtesy of Odessa Police Department.

Agustin Chacon’s case file sits beside Marshall McCarthy’s case file in Detective Lauren Gonzales’ office at the Odessa Police Department. Photo taken by audiochuck staff.

Detective Lauren Gonzales stands in front of her closets full of cold case files at the Odessa Police Department. Photo taken by audiochuck staff.

Detective Lauren Gonzales believes the apartment Marshall McCarthy lived in in 1982 has since been removed, but was somewhere in the area of 5th Street and Roosevelt Avenue, near this lot where a trailer-style home is now located. Photo taken by audiochuck staff.

Detective Lauren Gonzales believes the apartment Marshall McCarthy lived in in 1982 has since been removed, but was somewhere in the area of 5th Street and Roosevelt Avenue, near this lot where a trailer-style home is now located. Photo taken by audiochuck staff.