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Three women were murdered. Their eyes were gone. Police searched for years. They never recovered a single one.
The victims were found across Dallas, Texas — different women, different lives, different circumstances.
But investigators kept returning to the same horrifying detail: whoever killed them appeared to be taking their eyes. As fear spread through the city, rumours spread even faster, and the press gave the unknown offender a nickname that sounded more like an urban legend than a real criminal investigation — The Eyeball Killer.
Before long, detectives focused on a local man named Charles Albright — a former teacher, an artist, a career criminal, and a man who had spent much of his life drawing, studying, and obsessing over eyes.
This episode explores the disturbing true story of Charles Albright, one of the most infamous and controversial serial killer cases in Texas history.
In this deep dive, Anna breaks down the entire case from start to finish — Albright’s unusual childhood, his adoption, his escalating criminal behaviour, his obsession with anatomy and artwork, the murders that terrorised Dallas, the eyewitness accounts, the forensic evidence, the investigation, the arrest, the trial, the conviction, and the questions that still divide true crime communities decades later.
At the centre of it all is the mystery that continues to haunt the case: where did the eyeballs go?
That unanswered question has fuelled decades of debate and cemented Charles Albright as one of the most discussed figures in criminal psychology and serial killer history.
Podcast: True Crime w/ Anna Templeton