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A missing man emerges from a Texas swamp strapped to his chest as a chilling record of his final minutes. The Texas Rangers hope he will help unravel a double homicide case. Police have a suspect in a cold-blooded murder but don't have the technology to compare him. Crime will make science catch up with the killer before he escapes forever when a body turns up on the side of a Texas interstate. Detectives hit the road to stop a homicidal truck driver in his tracks. In Texas there is plenty of room for hello, but killers in the Lone Star State keep in mind that not even the fastest criminals can escape the long arm of the Texas Rangers on July 27, 1982.

The Texas Rangers were called to a car abandoned in a remote drainage ditch near Santa Rosa, the interior had been set on fire to verify the plates showed the car was registered to Billy Statement Rule along with his girlfriend Letty Castro had been missing for ten days it was the first breakup In the case the Rangers desperately needed once they pulled the car out of the swamp the investigators noticed something even more suspicious that a rock had been put in the accelerator, it seemed that a deliberate attempt had been made to get rid of the car and hide a crime, but the fire and days of exposure to the elements had erased all fingerprints and ruined any chance of linking the crime.

For one suspect, the rock was the only clue authorities had to lead them to the missing couple and their but if the condition of the car was an indication that things were not looking good for Billie Stegman and Letty Castro, Texas Ranger Bruce Castile feared the worst. After finding the vehicle we began an extensive search with numerous individuals searching canals in overgrown areas in an attempt to find Letty Castro and Billy Staton we felt at that time had been murdered. The Rangers combed the area for the bodies, sure they couldn't. Being too far from the charred car, they trudged through miles of dense brush along the drainage ditch looking for any sign of the couple.

After four days of searching they still had found nothing, but the Rangers couldn't believe it. discouraged, they had earned a reputation for their skill. To solve extremely difficult cases, the Texas Rangers were organized in 1823 by Stephen Faustin to protect early Texas settlers from Indians. Fifty years later, in the rough days of the Wild West, the Rangers earned their name as tough agents of the law by tracking down bandits and bank robbers. Today's horse thieves and rustlers The Rangers are as tenacious as ever as a state police agency. They are highly trained in investigative and forensic techniques to assist local authorities.

The Texas Rangers tackle only the largest and most complex criminal cases and the simple missing persons case was becoming more difficult by the days The Rangers question Letty Castro's brother, who told authorities he last saw the couple time on July 16 when he stopped by the trailer she shared with Billy, and stated that it was the same day they went to pick up Staton's nine-year-old daughter from her ex. -at his wife's house, the two were getting married soon and were hoping to get

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-time custody of the girl, but their dreams disappeared as quickly as they did. The Rangers also learned from Letty Castro's brother about Staton's ugly custody battle.

Billy Staton retained the rights. to stay with his daughter every other weekend. His ex-wife, Sheri, didn't like to do pick-ups. They were an especially distressing time to control Staton's ex-wife. The Rangers learned that Sheri and her new husband Paul Wolff had moved in the day after Billy Staton and Letty Castro disappeared when the Rangers caught up with him, they claimed that Steak, who never showed up and picked up their daughter, the Rangers got a court order to search the house that Paul and Sheree had abandoned. A wet spot on the carpet prompted

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to investigate further.

What they found was to baffle a small area on the back of the rug and then painted over it. It seemed like a deliberate attempt had been made to cover something up. Sections of the carpet were sent to the lab to see if technicians could determine anything. The agents tested the charcoal so as not to destroy potential evidence they removed some of the residue with a cotton swab then a chemical substance that changes color in the presence of blood was added to the swab the test was positive the blood was human due to the limits of the technology in 1982 and contamination from the paint they could not determine whose blood it was, but they discovered that the carpet contained a lot of blood.

Someone had gone to great trouble to hide it. Upon closer examination of the house, investigators discovered small blood splatters on the walls and curtains. They collected samples to send to the lab. If bodies were ever found. Blood types could be compared. Something had definitely happened in the house. But the evidence. The most interesting thing was found outside the house it wasn't as much evidence as no evidence but it was rock solid, criminalist Ranger Joe Marsh figured out exactly what had happened and we looked around and finally found a crevice next to a tree where a rock used to be so we went ahead and we had the rock back in time and we went back and basically put it back together like a puzzle and put it back in place putting these pieces together the Rangers turned to Paul Wolf, Billy's husband , Billy State News ' ex-wife Barnes this time changed her story, Paul now.

He admitted that Neches Billy and Lenny Castro had come to pick up Billy's daughter. He told the Rangers that Sherri and the girl were not home when Billy arrived. Billy was so angry upon discovering that his daughter was not there that he attacked Paul. Paul tried to defend himself. and he accidentally killed Billy with a metal bar. Billy's fiancé, Letty, heard the commotion and ran in when she saw Billy on the ground covered in blood. She came after Paul bravely began attacking once again. Paul Wolf said he hit her in self-defense and accidentally killed her. Too shocked and scared by what he did, Paul asked a friend, Glenn Henderson, who helped him dump the bodies in a drainage ditch to get rid of Billy's car.

He brought a large rock to step on the accelerator in hopes the car would crash. The ditch, but it hadn't worked out as he had planned, so he came back the next day and burned it all down. Wolf admitted that he had lied the first time because he was confused and wasn't sure the Rangers would believe his story. He then directed investigators to the bodies. Letty Castro's body was found floating in a drainage ditch 12 miles from where the car was located. Her skull showed the damage Paul Wolfe described, but the Rangers also saw that she had been shot in the head.

It didn't match. Wolf's confession was clearly lying about 10 miles away. Billy claimed that her body was found partially submerged in the steep canal. Her head was crushed when they pulled her body out. Detectives made a peculiar discovery when they saw a bag under her shirt tied around her waist. mini recorder was in poor condition from the water but the cassette inside was still intact it was a baffling five Rangers couldn't explain why Billy or a tape recorder to his ex-wife's house but they knew there was a possibility that the brilliant statement he recorded his own murder the Texas Rangers believe the clue that would seal their case was attached to Billy Staton's body the recorder found on the victim was treated with tremendous care days of water and mud had ruined most of the mechanism, but the crime scene Analyst Joe Marchand was hopeful he could salvage the cassette.

The most fascinating evidence we found was the tape recorder that was strapped to Billie State's stomach. We pulled out the tape, called the FBI lab and asked what we were supposed to do and them. they said it has been partially submerged in water they said well put it back in water and send it to us in a container and it is better to be in water than to let the tape dry after 10 long days the tape was returned to the Texas Rangers The FBI had They had done everything possible to save what had been recorded, but it was still unclear if it contained anything vital to the case.

Within seconds of playing it, the sounds of Billy Staton being brutally murdered were perfectly clear. Armed with the recording, investigators returned to the crime scene to precisely match the actions to the audio. They measured distances and timed the events as they corresponded to the sounds on the tape. The blood found in the house had been compared to the steak. Billy now the blood patterns would tell more of what happened story, all the blood stains on the wall had little tails like tears, by studying and measuring them, the examiners were able to determine exactly what angles the blood had come from, combined with the tape audio, they were then able to piece together where Billy was in the room at the time he was hit.

The tape revealed to investigators exactly what happened that afternoon. Billy Staton showed up at the house and was invited to Billy's house. Here, Sherry Wolf and her daughter are clearly heard on tape refuting Paul's claims that they were not home when Billy arrived. Detectives found out about that soon. After Billy arrived, the wolf took out the trash, but the trash was just an excuse to go out. He really just wanted to see if Billy had brought Letty with him and he needed to grab the crowbar he had hidden earlier because of the way the blood had been splattered. on the wall, listening closely to the tape, it was obvious to the Rangers that Billy Staton had no idea what was about to happen.

He was sitting patiently waiting when Paul Wolf hit Wolf's accomplice. Glenn Henderson had been hiding in another room once his victim collapsed. To the floor, the two went out to murder Ledee who was waiting in the car. Without a doubt, the wolf's entire claim of self-defense was a lie. These were cold-blooded attacks on unsuspecting people while the tape continued rolling. The murderers took Billy to his car and killed him. They put the trunk in the trunk, they knew they had to get rid of the car as well as the bodies and they took the rock with them.

The fact that the murder weapons were planted and an accomplice was present helped show that they were not spontaneous murders, they were planned in advance, of course what they didn't plan was to capture their crime on tape and this is where they are looking, this is where they are looking to see where they are going to dump it and you can hear the rocks hitting the bottom of the trunk and they are traveling at a low speed. The wolf heads to an isolated area of ​​a drainage ditch a few miles from the house. Glenn Henderson followed in his truck.

The site was far from the road. and the grass was pastel enough to hide a corpse, but something was wrong. Letty Castro was still alive. The Killers, however, were prepared for such a problem on the tape, a single gunshot is heard, then some screams are heard that are inaudible, then the car is heard. door closed on the vehicle and took off and approximately thirty seconds later the tape runs out for some reason they decided not to dump both bodies in the same place they left their next victim nine miles later the car was eliminated just as wolf described the hard work had finished in the house there was quite a bit of cleaning to do in the short time they had left their victim inside fighting for life a large pool of blood had pooled on the carpet the accomplices had to hire a professional carpet cleaner to cover their mess But even that wasn't enough blood had seeped through the carpet staining the underside in an attempt to hide it.

They painted over the stains to leave the crime behind. The wolves went so far as to move out of the house the day after the murders. , but they could do nothing to erase evidence that could fill a statement, and the Rangers unknowingly discovered that Billy had used the recorder on the advice of his attorney. He wanted to capture the terrible confrontation and Sherry's malicious behavior waiting. He could help her gain custody of his daughter, instead he recorded her own murder of him. Paul and Cheri Wolf were sentenced to life in prison for killing Billy Staton and Lenny Castro, while Glenn Henderson also received life in prison.

Most criminals accidentally leave behind evidence and evidence that can convict, but sometimes evidence is worthless when not even the latest technology can identify a killer, all

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can do is wait until science catches up. up to date. It was the morning of January 22, 1988 when the Texas Rangers were summoned to an isolated farm in Burleson. County, they called them and checked on an elderly woman who lived alone. Neighbors could not communicatewith her on the phone. There was concern that something might have happened. They were right. Lydia Schumacher, 72, had been murdered inside. The Rangers discovered the gruesome scene.

Schumacher was lying partially naked in her bed, the sheets were bloody, she had been beaten and then suffocated to death, they called the Texas Ranger crime lab in Austin to process the house for evidence that someone clearly The back door had been forced open and some jewelry was apparently missing from the lady. Schumacher had surprised a thief, there were no fingerprints to collect from her and the weapon with which she was beaten could not be found, it was likely that she was suffocated on her own pillow. The officers directed their attention to her body on the bed.

Serologist Donna Stanley, an expert. With biological evidence we examined the crime scene and found signs that the victim had been raped, so what we did was begin to untangle sheet by sheet and in doing so we recovered the hairs that we saw on the sheets and on the quilt that was there. where it became clear at that moment that we could have been dealing with more than just a homicide, that we could have had a sexual assault involved to track down the killer. The Rangers began interviewing people in the area for any information within a week. questioned all of Schumacher's friends and neighbors, no one could understand who could rape and murder such a sweet person, but finally three names emerged of men who, for one reason or another, their neighbors consider us suspicious.

The detectives asked the men if they were willing to take a polygraph test one by one, took them to the station hooked up to the machine and asked them point-blank if they murdered Schumacher, with any knowledge of the murder, the Texas Ranger Bob channel. was in charge of the case, we had several suspects. In the course of the investigation, one of them was a next-door neighbor, another was a person who was later arrested for indecent exposure. Two men were questioned and released. The third suspect was a young man named Charles Su Pack Jr. Her pack and his father had been working at the Schumacher house the day she was murdered.

A background check revealed that he was once accused of sexual assault. He was subjected to extensive interrogation about the crime, but denied any involvement. The polygraph. confirmed that the soup spoke the truth, the three suspects had passed the test and the Rangers were now left empty-handed with no further clues, all they could do was hope to make the best of what they had so far pretty good at the lab. criminalistics in Austin Donna Stanley and her colleagues performed tests on the biological evidence left by the rapist once they determined the murderer's blood type, comparing it with hair samples taken from three suspects.

Of the three suspects I tested, two of them were immediately eliminated. The third. It remained as an inclusion in the blood typing test and that was her pack. It was not eliminated in typing in 1988. Blood typing reduced the evidence to one of only eight blood types, but with hundreds of millions of people sharing their packs, the test results were hardly enough to prove anything, even so it was everything they had to work with, so the Rangers went back to packing the suit. He had passed the first polygraph test, but investigators were confident that if he was guilty they would sue Pat couldn't beat the machine twice in a row and decided to try again, it wasn't hard to find him.

He was in jail for possession of marijuana. Did the Rangers feel that if he had been under the influence of drugs during the first kill opportunity, they could have possibly lied and still passed on the second attempt? -He had been in jail for several days and we knew that he had to be clean at that time, so we took him again to the second polygraph, the same operator and he passed that one too. No other evidence was found that could lead to the murder. The authorities had no choice but to acquit him of the charges for almost a year.

The Rangers struggled to find Schumacher's killer, but to no avail. On November 29, 1988 they finally had to suspend the case. A rapist and murderer was roaming somewhere in the Lone Star State. and the Texas Rangers couldn't stop him it had been three years since Lydia Schumacher was brutally raped and murdered, the only suspect was absolved of all responsibility and the case sat on the shelf collecting dust, but by 1991 science had advanced enough to justify further investigation. In the case, serologist Donna Stanley of the Texas Ranger Crime Lab felt that the new technologies were promising, we still had a little bit of evidence left in the hope that as new technology appeared, we could apply it. evidence of that new technology and once again obtain more information.

I need to put the first comparisons made between suspect Charles's hair and the bodily fluids found at the crime scene were inconclusive. Forensic examiners had done everything they could, but since the initial investigation. A revolutionary new method for analyzing DNA, called PCR, has been developed that allows scientists to obtain DNA from tiny samples, such as a single strand of hair or a speck of blood, something they have never been able to do before. Stan Lee was optimistic that the evidence collected in the Schumacher house. Three years earlier he would finally be used to catch the killer shortly after the case was closed, Sheriff Canal had retired and Texas Ranger Ray Kauffman took his place.

Kauffman approved further investigation of the evidence and quickly reopened the file at the time he became involved in the shooting. murder I knew that DNA was making great strides in its ability to identify suspects and I felt that this case was one that DNA could possibly absorb. I watched as the preserved evidence was sent to a genetics laboratory. The Rangers began questioning neighbors and family again in hopes of uncovering more information about Charles' pact. They soon learned things about their suspect they had never heard before. Shocking facts made the authorities more suspicious than ever. Neighbors confided that Sue Pat John Golson was woken up late one night By Charles his pack, he told Golson that he had had car trouble and needed help, but something about the super pack's manners didn't seem right.

John reluctantly agreed to give him a ride back to his car as they drove around aimlessly trying to find the car. Golson's suspicions slowly turned to fear that his pack had insisted on sitting directly behind Golson and had spent the entire trip, wrapping an electrical cable around his hands, his pack eventually directed Golson to a remote area, but when they arrived his vehicle was nowhere to be seen, tired of the whole animal thing and finally drove into the garage, when Golson got home he was still feeling uncomfortable. and his wife inspected the land and discovered that his telephone lines had been cut.

The story took another chilling turn when Golson showed the Rangers where he had driven their return that night. Golson had no idea the significance of this fire, but the importance of it did not. Escape from the Rangers trip Golson with his LED Rangers pack to believe that his former suspect knew more about Schumacher's murder than this is the final location where Mr. hachoo pot brought mr. That night, Gholson, Shu Fox, said he had parked his vehicle down below or he got stuck here by this line of trees, this little lane from here goes down to the shoemaker's residence, maybe a quarter of a mile here Downstairs his backpack had returned to Schumacher.

The Rangers knew it was common for a killer to revisit a crime scene, but it would take more than this circumstantial evidence to pinpoint Charles Su when the lab had performed complex DNA tests comparing simple soup packets to evidence from the Schumacher case. . On March 8, 1992, results came in. Charles Succoth Jr.'s DNA was on the victims' bedsheets, the updated information finally gave the Texas Rangers the evidence they needed to arrest the man they had suspected for more than Five years ago, he was once again in another Texas county jail for vehicle theft and faced with the undeniable DNA evidence that the Pak lawsuit admitted.

Rape and murder Lydia Schumacher in the soup of confessions she told the Rangers that on January 20, 1988 he and her father had finished a job they had been doing with the lady. Schumacher's house and they were ready to call it a day, they had spent almost a week on the property and Charles had been inside the house long enough to know that Mrs. Schumacher had some gold jewelry and thought he had to have more valuable ones somewhere in the house that night. When he returned, he claimed that he had been driving around looking for something to steal when he thought of the lady.

Schumacher her house was terribly isolated and she was old and helpless the house was silent when he arrived and getting in was easy he left the pipe in the yard that day now it was the perfect tool and soon it would be the perfect weapon once inside Prowler took a look around her, he sneaked into her room and started rummaging through her things when she woke up. Her pack reacted by hitting her on the head with the pipe before leaving, raping her and suffocating her with a pillow. It took her almost five years, but Charles Sopa Jr.

I was eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Lydia Schumacher. The conviction was a tribute to the Ranger's tenacity as much as it was a victory for hard science. Forensic science basically solved this case if it hadn't been for advances in DNA. I am sure this would remain a pending case and would remain unresolved. It's easier to catch a killer even years after the crime if he stays put, but the Rangers pride themselves on their ability to track down fleeing suspects in a state as large as Texas. A common situation, there is usually not much to see on Interstate 35 between Dallas and Oklahoma, but on August 8, 1994 that changed, a Cook County police officer saw a body on the side of the road near Oklahoma state line when Texas Rangers arrived on the scene and found a white man dead. man about 30 years old, he had been stabbed several times in the chest, neck and face around his neck there was a shoelace, he had a sock stuffed in his mouth, judging by the condition of his body, it looked as if they would have thrown him from a moving vehicle.

A bra and baseball cap were discovered nearby. A pair of men's underwear was also recovered. There were dark clues, but it was enough to get us started. The Rangers followed the right path. Officers searched the body but found no wallet or identification. The murder victim was transported to the laboratory where. Fingerprints were taken for identification. The task of locating the killer fell to Texas Ranger Johnny Waldrop. Within two days he received a positive identification of the victim based on fingerprints. He was a 38-year-old Dallas man. His name was James Sykes. James Sax had a real bad criminal record and was kind of a disposable person, he had no family history other than his parents, he had no money or job and he was a very bad drug addict and an extensive criminal history with obstacles that we ran into As we went through During the investigation, we contacted people and they said one of you cared, we did care because you were an individual like everyone else.

Sykes met a rough crowd when officers located his best friend Marie Bracken. She was in Dallas County. She got jail time and a drug charge and became the Rangers' first suspect. Bracken admitted that she had been with Sykes just the day before her body was discovered. He even acknowledged that the baseball cap found at the scene belonged to him, but remained adamant that it had nothing to do with the murder. Bracken said that he and Sykes were partying at a motel when they met a truck driver and his girlfriend and the four of them drank. Bracken's drugs and at the end of the party he asked the trucker to pay him for his share of the truck.

The driver didn't have the money with him, but said he could go get it. James Sykes went with a couple to make sure they didn't leave. That was August 7th. Marie sent Sykes with the truck driver to collect the money. She for some unknown reason gave her wallet with her driver's license to Bracken and said: I'm from 8th place Oklahoma. I am a truck driver. I have to be in Phoenix in a couple of days and this is in good faith. I will leave mywallet. with you showing you that I will come back with the money they never returned and Marie Bracken said she emptied the trucker's wallet and threw away his driver's license unfortunately that was the only evidence that would have supported her story and provided a solid lead for Rangers was now gone for always to see if Bracken was telling the truth Waldrop called the Oklahoma Department of Motor Vehicles to check if there were truckers who would apply for duplicate licenses in the last few days the DMV gave him a list on which there was a man named Terry Brown, he was from Ada Oklahoma, police records revealed that Brown had been stopped for a traffic violation shortly before the murder at which time he was driving a truck registered to a trucking company in Carrollton, Texas, finished his job and returned the truck to the company. but shortly afterwards someone stole it from the lock.

Brown was arrested for driving the stolen vehicle two days later, but was released on bond. The Dallas police had left his mugshot. Hey thanks. The Rangers put the photo in a photo stack. That's Marie Bracken to inspect the lineup. Within moments he recognized the trucker he had last seen with his friend and pointed out to Terry Brown that the investigation was gaining momentum, but to prove that Brown was the killer, the Rangers needed more than just the word of a criminal, they needed testing, the shipping company was relieved. to recover his stolen truck was only now the main evidence of a crime much worse than theft;

It matched a description Bracken had given authorities; They were beginning to believe that it was in the truck that James Sykes had taken his last ride on The Dallas police crime lab was called to search the vehicle for signs that the victim had been inside. The Rangers knew that Brown had been in the cabin where he was arrested. Transportation records showed he was driving on business until August 6, some time after he returned to the lot and stole the truck, the company reported the rig missing and it was recovered on the 8th, the same day the truck was found. body, everything pointed to Terry Brown being the killer, but Brown had jumped bail, no one knew where he was, the team searched the cabin. and sleeper looking for clues they got what they were looking for on the back of the walls investigators found some small stains of what appeared to be blood careful examination revealed even more blood under the mattress some quick tests indicated it was human detectives were sure The tests would reveal that it was the blood of James Sykes.

The evidence was packaged and sent to the laboratory for DNA testing. The Rangers were sure they were now on the trail of the man responsible for the brutal stabbing at the lab. Criminalist Wilson Young used DNA evidence to compare the blood to that of the victim, but what he found surprised

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which presented a major obstacle to the investigation. We did a type on it, we did a DNA type on it and we found out that actually from that platform that we investigated at that particular time, the blood didn't match the victim that we were looking for we had some blood here but it didn't match the person.

The ones we were supposed to match had found blood in the truck but it wasn't the blood they were expecting to find apparently someone else could have been murdered there so Ranger Waldrop got the news which only complicated things further, another woman had been murdered. We found her and she had a ligature around her neck and a sock in her mouth and of course we found Sykes with a ligature around her neck and a sock in her mouth, so my initial gut reaction was that Marie Brackett He was telling the truth and that we probably had a serial killer after driving the truck the case had taken an unexpected turn at least two people had died the serial killer was loose on the interstates of the United States if Waldrop didn't catch up with him soon surely There would be more bodies to identify along the way.

The Texas murders did not end on November 7. Ranger Waldrop received a call from the police in Richardson Texas, a town just north of Dallas, they just found another body, it was a woman with a rope tied around her neck and a sock. she went into his mouth, but this time there was a twist: the dead woman was Terry Brown's mother. Brown and his girlfriend Tina Sampson were the main suspects in the murder. They had stolen his mother's car and disappeared when Waldrop spoke to Brown's last employer and discovered that Brown was supposed to have delivered a load to California, picked up his truck on November 6, the day before the murder, and never returned. one more time.

Terry Brown had stolen a rig and disappeared. We were very lucky for him. Finally we had a stroke of luck. It was the truck we were looking for, we found out he drove the truck to Oklahoma City and partied in it for a few days and ran out of gas and left it. Oklahoma City police found the abandoned truck before the Rangers had time to respond. The trucking company brought the semi back to Texas and cleaned it. The crime lab was sent to look for possible clues that may have survived the cleanup. Fortunately, the company had not cleaned up all the evidence.

Stains were found on the bed under the mattress and were most likely caused by blood, judging by the size of the stains they appeared, a lot of blood had seeped through the mattress onto the platform, but this was clearly a new mattress, the company had discarded the old one and with it some vital evidence. Until the murder case, by a stroke of luck, the trash had not yet been picked up and among the trash was an old, stained mattress. The large stains looked like blood and matched the stains on the truck, but detectives were concerned that the days of exposure had lasted too long.

From the evidence, everything was sent to a laboratory in Austin for detailed analysis in the laboratory. DNA was extracted from the evidence, the strands were chemically cut into smaller pieces, allowing for an extremely precise comparison between the blood found in the truck and James Sykes' samples. I'm going to need the layout comparing the DNA fragments. Technicians confirmed that the blood could only match one person in the entire world. James Silas we were sure the victim's blood was on the truck. In fact, I mean, when you look. the one in 5.5 billion numbers indicating that that particular person was the only one who could have left the blood in the truck that Terry Brown and Tina Sampson were found in the next day.

Dallas police found a couple and their mother in the stolen car. They headed east, were divided up and questioned separately once the evidence was presented to them. Finally, investigators were told the true story of what happened to James Sykes to ensure they paid what they owed. Sikes had gone with them to collect the money. Brown broke into a truck stop and pulled Sikes to wait in the truck while he went to get the cash, but Sikes became impatient and decided to collect his money another way, according to the killer, he climbed into the back and He demanded sex from Tina Sampson, she panicked during the night to defend herself. herself when Brown returned and saw the two arguing as soon as I tried to rape his girlfriend in a fit of rage she grabbed the knife and stabbed Sykes Samson said she was so upset she took the knife and stabbed him some more Brown wrapped a ligature around his victim's neck and stuffed a sock in his mouth.

Sampson said they left her body in the back for a while until they were ready to get rid of it and she told us how they had driven around a couple of days later, partied some more and done something. more drugs while he was in the bedroom of the truck and then they decided to go to Oklahoma City and on the way she didn't know where they were but they stopped on the side of the interstate and the tea Reid got on the sleeper and just with his feet He pushed the body out the side door on the long side of the interstate and then they went to Oklahoma City, although investigators were unable to obtain a conviction for the other two murders.

Tina Sampson received 20 years for conspiracy to murder. and Terry Brown was sentenced to life in prison for the death of James Sykes. The Texas Rangers' determination paid off. In this case, I think Pitta misses the Rangers that we have made for so many years. There is a very old Ranger who says: "Amen in the Evil can't stand against a right man who keeps coming and that's what we did in this case: we kept them. The Rangers became famous over a hundred years ago chasing Doggedly target criminals across all types of terrain using any weapon available and we are still ahead armed with the power of forensic science.

Killers may continue to flee the law, but with technology as their sidekick, the Texas Rangers will never stop. They will stop there.