The 1965 slaying of an elderly couple became a notorious Houston tale

S ome crimes gather dust for years with little attention. Then there’s the “Icebox Murders.” Inside the kitchen of a Montrose home in the summer of 1965, detectives and television news cameras captured a chilling and disturbing domestic scene while the lead suspect vanished without a trace.

Part I: Driscoll Street

Criminally Texas

Criminally Texas is a regular series from Chron detailing the true stories of some of the Lone Star State’s most notorious incidents, unsolved or otherwise.

The story broke shortly after the discovery. On June 23, 1965, a concerned relative of Edwina Rogers, 79, and her husband Fred Rogers, 83, asked police to visit the couple’s home at 1815 Driscoll St. on a welfare check. Nobody answered the door, and when police broke inside, they heard nothing. It seemed calm…

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