Roxanne Houston

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Mike Ferguson (1:44)

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 539 of the True Crime All The Time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime, Mike Gibson. Gibby, how are you?

Mike Gibson (1:54)

Excellent day.

Mike Ferguson (1:55)

Okay.

Mike Gibson (1:56)

Yeah.

Mike Ferguson (1:56)

That's pretty good.

Mike Gibson (1:57)

It is really good.

Mike Ferguson (1:58)

Can you be better than that? That might be the tippy top. I don't know.

Mike Gibson (2:02)

It's kind of the tippy top.

Mike Ferguson (2:05)

All right, man. Let's dive right in. You know, on these Thursday episodes, we don't mess around.

Mike Gibson (2:11)

We just get down.

Mike Ferguson (2:12)

Yeah, we are.

We're talking about Roxanne Houston. Months after relocating from Colorado to New Mexico, Roxanne disappeared while walking away from home on foot. Her body was later found in a shallow grave in a remote area. So we got a lot to get into. Roxanne Marie Glazer Houston was born on March 17, 1981 She was only 33 years old at the time of her death. Roxanne had four children, but none of them lived with her. Her two oldest children lived with their fathers.

Her youngest two children were twins and lived with her parents in Colorado Springs. In 2013, Roxanne and her boyfriend left Colorado and arrived in Carson, New Mexico. They camped for some time and eventually moved into a residence in the Taos area. You familiar with Taos, New Mexico?

Mike Gibson (3:14)

I am not.

Mike Ferguson (3:16)

I've been to Albuquerque.

Mike Gibson (3:18)

Same here.

Mike Ferguson (3:18)

That's the only place I've been to in New Mexico. When I was there, and this was when I was young, it seemed really nice. You could stand in the city, which was blazing hot, look up in the mountains and see the snow.

You know, I know Albuquerque has been hit pretty hard, as a lot of places here have in the United States with drugs. But I don't know, it's a gorgeous area.

Mike Gibson (3:49)

It used to be a really colorful city too. I remember all the homes and stuff were painted very bright colors when I was there.

Mike Ferguson (3:57)

I did not remember that, but again, I was young. But also we have talked about our love of Colorado and how gorgeous that place is.

Mike Gibson (4:08)

Colorado as well.

Mike Ferguson (4:09)

You're moving from Colorado to New Mexico. According to the Taos News, they lived in a half-buried school bus with a small earth-shaped earthship type living room addition in the two peaks area west of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.

Mike Gibson (4:29)

That's interesting.

Yeah. I mean, a half-buried bus.

Mike Ferguson (4:35)

So what are we talking about? Like you excavate to a certain depth.

Mike Gibson (4:40)

Yeah.

Mike Ferguson (4:41)

And then you got to bring in a crane and drop this bus in or?

Mike Gibson (4:46)

I'm guessing that's what they had to do, you know?

I mean, I get it. It helped keep that lower, you know, being that into the ground like that, it's going to keep you cooler in that heat out there. But I'm just trying to picture this. It'd be like getting one of those storage containers that a lot of people like now, right? Yeah. And burying, putting those into the ground, stacking them and configuring them however you want. Similar to that.