A chronicle of sixteen ruthless killings from Lone Star history and the dirty details that have shocked and bewildered Texans for decades.
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Texas has long boasted of its iron fist and strict treatment of criminals. Nevertheless, a number of homicidal scoundrels and fiends have slipped through the stateโs justice system despite even the best efforts of the legendary Texas Rangers.
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In 1877, Texas saw its first high-profile murder case with the slaying of a woman in Jefferson and the subsequent โDiamond Bessieโ trial. More than a century later, state legislator Price Daniel Jr., was shot in cold blood by his wife at their home in Liberty, TX. True crime writer and historian Bartee Haile unburies these and other stories from Texasโs murderous past.
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With these stories and moreโfrom senseless roadside murders to political assassinationsโdiscover the seedy underbelly of the Lone Star Stateโs murderous past.