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Texas Monthly – It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.

Texas Monthly – It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.

Posted on June 23, 2025

photo of roadI. “The deeper you go, the stranger it gets.”The day before he would take off his clothes and vanish into the rural countryside on a frigid night—defying logic, devastating those who loved him, and baffling some of the best criminal investigators in Texas—Jason Landry was thinking about socks. Not just any socks, but a colorful pair that featured an image of a monkey in a suit and tie holding a briefcase in one hand and a banana in the other, with the words “monkey business” stitched across each ankle. Socks were the highlight of an extensive, bullet-pointed Christmas list that Jason texted to his mother, Lisa, on Saturday, December 12, 2020. He preferred “wacky and cool socks,” he noted, not basic ones with “tacos or dogs…

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