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a missing man emerges in a

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swamp tied to his chest it's a chilling record of his last minutes

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s hope it will help unravel a double homicide case police have a suspect in a cold-blooded murder but they don't have the technology to compare it 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

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hit the road to stop a homicidal trucker in his tracks in texas there's plenty of room to hide, but killers in the Lone Star State beware, not even the fastest of criminals can escape the long arm of the Texas Rangers on July 27, 1982.

The Texas Rangers were called to an abandoned car in a remote drainage ditch near Santa Rosa. The interior had been set on fire. The license plate showed the car was registered to Billy Staton, who along with his girlfriend Letty Castro was the first break in the case and one the

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s desperately needed. Once they pulled the car out of the swamp, investigators noticed something even more suspicious: a stone had been placed. Stepping on the accelerator looked like 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 to a suspect.

The only lead authorities had to lead them to the missing couple was nowhere near, but if the condition of the car was any indication, things weren't looking good for Billy Staton and Letty Castro. Texas Ranger Bruce Castillo feared the worst long after he found the vehicle we started. an extensive search with numerous individuals searching canals in overgrown areas in an attempt to find lefty castro and billy stayton we felt that at that time they had been murdered the rangers combed the area for the bodies certain they could not be far away From the burned site they drove through miles of dense undergrowth along the drainage ditch looking for any sign of the couple.

After four days of searching they still had found nothing but the rangers were not discouraged. They built a reputation. For their ability to solve extremely difficult cases, the Texas Rangers were organized in 1823 by Stephen Faustin to protect the early settlers of Texas from the Indians. 50 years later, in the rowdy days of the Wild West, the Rangers earned their name as toughs. law enforcement officers in tracking down bandits, bank robbers, horse thieves and cattle thieves, today's rangers are As tenacious as ever as a state police agency, they are highly trained in forensic and investigative techniques to assist criminals. local authorities.

The Texas Rangers tackle only the largest and most complex criminal cases and the simple missing person case was becoming more difficult by the day. questioned Letty Castro's brother who told authorities that he last saw the couple on July 16 when he passed by the trailer she shared with Billy Staton, that was the same day they left to pick up their nine-year-old daughter from Staton to his ex-wife's house. The two were getting married soon and hoped to gain full-time custody of the girl, but their dreams disappeared as quickly as they did. The rangers also learned from Letty Castro's brother about Staten's ugly custody battle. billy staton retained the rights to stay with his daughter every other weekend his ex-wife sherry didn't like doing pickups they were an especially distressing time to check on staton's ex-wife the rangers learned that sherry and her new husband Paul Wolf had moved in the day after Billy Staton and Letty Castro went missing when the rangers caught up with him, they claimed Stayton never showed up to pick up his daughter, just stay informed George, it's good to see you taking care.

The rangers obtained a warrant to search the house that Paul and Sherry had abandoned. A wet spot on the carpet. encouraged the

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to investigate a little further what they found was disconcerting a small area on the back of the carpet had been painted over it looked as if a deliberate attempt had been made to cover something sections of the carpet were sent to the laboratory to see If technicians were able to determine anything, agents tested the carpet so as not to destroy potential evidence, removed some of the residue with a cotton swab and then added a chemical to the swab that changes color in the presence of blood.

The test was positive. The blood was human due to the limits of 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 and someone had gone to great lengths to hide it upon further examination. arrested in Investigators at the house discovered small blood splatters on the walls and curtains. They collected samples to send to the lab if the bodies were ever found. Blood types could be compared. Something had definitely happened in the house, but the most interesting evidence was found outside.

In the house it wasn't so much evidence as the absence of evidence, but it was rock solid. Criminologist Joe Marchand figured out precisely what had happened and we looked around and eventually found an indentation next to a tree where a rock used to be, so we went ahead and we had the rock at the time and we went back and basically put it back like a puzzle and we put it back in its place by putting these pieces together. The Rangers turned to Paul Wolff, the husband of Billy Staton's ex-wife. When he changed his story, Paul now admitted that Billy and Letty Castro had arrived to pick up Billy's daughter.

He told the rangers that Sherry and the girl were not home when Billy arrived. Billy was so angry when he found out his daughter wasn't there that he attacked Paul. Paul tried to defend himself and accidentally killed Billy with a metal bar. Billy's fiancee. Letty heard the commotion and ran in when she saw Billy on the floor covered in blood came after paul once again paul wolff said he hit her in car - the defense accidentally killed her, too shocked and scared by what he had done, paul asked a friend, glenn henderson, to help him dump the bodies in a drainage ditch to get rid of billy's car;

He had brought a large rock to place on the accelerator in the hope that the car would go into the ditch on its own, but it didn't work as he had planned, so he came back the next day and burned it. Paul Wolfe admitted that he had lied the first time because he was confused and unsure of the rangers. Wolf would buy the story from him and then led 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 Wolf described, but the rangers also saw that she had been shot in the head.

It didn't match Wolf's confession. She was clearly lying about 10 miles away. Billy Staton's body was found partially submerged in a steep canal. His head was crushed when they removed the body. Detectives made a peculiar discovery under his shirt tied around his waist. a mini tape recorder was in poor condition due to water but the cassette inside was still intact it was a puzzling find the rangers couldn't explain why billy was bringing a tape recorder to his ex wife's house but they knew there was a possibility that billy statement had recorded his own murder the texas rangers believed that the clue that would close 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 of saving the cassette.

The most fascinating evidence we found was the tape recorder that was strapped to Billy's state and stomach. We take out the tape. We called the FBI lab and asked them what we were supposed to do. They said it had become partially submerged in water. They said it was fine: put it back in water and send it to us in a container. It is better to be in water than to let the tape dry after 10 long days. The tape was returned to Texas. Rangers, the FBI 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 a 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 state. from billy now the blood patterns would tell more of the 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 she was defeated.

Now the tape revealed to investigators exactly what happened that afternoon. Billy Stayton showed up at the house and was invited into Billy's house. Sherry Wolfe and her daughter are clearly heard on tape refuting Paul's claims that they were not home when Billy arrived, detectives. He learned that shortly after Billy arrived, Wolf took out the trash, but the trash was just an excuse to go out. He actually just wanted to see if Billy had brought Letty with him and he needed to grab the crowbar he had hidden before the way the blood had splattered on the walls and by listening closely to the tape, it was obvious to the rangers that Billy Staton didn't.

I had an idea what was about to happen. he was sitting patiently waiting when paul wolfe hit wolfe's accomplice, glenn henderson had been hiding in another room once his victim collapsed on the floor the two went out to murder letty who was waiting in the car no doubt the statement Paul Wolfe's self-defense statement was a lie. These were cold-blooded attacks on unsuspecting people. While the tape continued rolling, the killers took Billy and went to his car and put him in the trunk. They knew they would have to get rid of the car and the bodies. They took the stone with them, the fact that the murder weapons were planted and that an accomplice was available helped show that these were not spontaneous murders, they were planned in advance, of course, what they did not plan was to capture their crime on tape and This is where they're looking, this is where they're looking to see where they're going to pull and you can hear the rocks hitting the bottom of the trunk and they're traveling at a slow speed.

The wolf found a secluded area near a drainage ditch a few miles from the house. Glenn Henderson followed in his truck. The place was far away. The path and grass were high enough to hide a body, but something was wrong. Letty Castro was still alive. The assassins, however, were prepared for such a problem. A single gunshot is heard on the tape, then some screams are heard that are inaudible. Then you hear it. The car door closes on the vehicle and takes off and about 30 seconds later the tape runs out, for some reason they decided not to dump both bodies in the same place where they left their next victim nine miles up the road.

The car was scrapped in the same manner. Wolf had described that the hard work was over in the house, there was quite a bit of cleaning to do in the short time they had left their victim inside fighting for his life, a large pool of blood had collected on the carpet that the co-conspirators They had hired a professional carpet cleaner to cover their tracks but even that was not 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 to the extreme of They moved out of the house the day after the murders, but nothing they could do would erase the evidence that Billy Staton had unknowingly recorded.

The rangers discovered that Billy had warned the recorder on the advice of his lawyer that he wanted to capture the terrible confrontation over Sherry's malicious behavior. Hoping that he could help her gain custody of his daughter, he instead recorded her own murder of him. Paul and Sherry Wolfe were sentenced to life in prison for killing Billy Staton and Letty Castro. For his part, Glenn Henderson also received a life sentence. Most criminals accidentally leave evidence behind. evidence that can convict, but sometimes evidence is worthless when not even the latest technology can identify a murderer, all detectives can do is wait until science catches up.

It was the morning of January 22, 1988 when the Texas Rangers were summoned to an isolated farm in Burleson. county, they called themto control an elderly woman who lived alone. her neighbors were unable to reach her by phone. They feared that something might have happened. They were right. Lydia Schumacher, 72, had been murdered inside. The rangers discovered the frightening thing. scene schumacher lay partially naked in her bed the sheets were bloody she had been beaten and then suffocated to death the texas ranger crime lab in austin was called to process the house for evidence that someone had clearly forced open the back door and there seemed to be something missing jewelry apparently Mrs.

Schumacher had surprised a thief there were no fingerprints to collect and the weapon used to hit her could not be found it was likely that she was suffocated with her own pillow the agents turned their attention to the body and the bed The serologist Donna Stanley, a biological evidence expert, examined the crime scene and found signs that the victim had been raped, so what we did was begin to untangle the bed sheet by sheet and in doing so we covered any hair we saw. on the sheets and on the bedspread was 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 information within a week the rangers had questioned all of Schumacher's friends and neighbors, no one could understand who could rape and murder such a sweet old lady, but eventually three names emerged. Neighboring detectives asked the men if they would be willing to undergo a polygraph test one by one, took them to the station connected to the machine and asked them directly if they murdered Schumacher or They had some knowledge of the murder. Ranger Bob Cannell 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 supac junior supac and his father Actually she had been working at the Schumacher home the day she was murdered.

A background check revealed that he had once been accused of sexual assault. He was subjected to extensive interrogation about the crime, but denied any involvement. The polygraph confirmed that Supac. He was telling the truth, no sir, the three suspects had passed the test and the rangers were now left empty-handed with no more clues, all they could do was hope to make the best of what they had so far pretty well in the game. crime lab in austin donna. Stanley and his colleagues performed tests on the biological evidence left by the rapist once they determined the killer's blood type, comparing it to hair samples taken from the three suspects.

The imaginary structure of the three suspects I tested, two of them were immediately eliminated. the third remained as an inclusion in the blood typing test and that was supac. He 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 the supac type, the test results were barely enough. To prove a point, it was all they had to work with, so the rangers brought Supac back. He had passed the first polygraph test, but investigators were sure that if he was guilty, Supac 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 marijuana possession. The Rangers felt that if he had been under the influence of drugs during the first test, he possibly could have lied and still passed the second test he had been on. jail for several days and we knew he had to be clean at that time, so we took him back for the second polygraph. The same operator passed that one too. No other evidence was found that could attribute the murder to Supac. The authorities had no choice. but to clear him of the charges for almost a year the rangers struggled to find schumacher's killer but it was useless on november 29, 1988 they finally had to call off the case a rapist and murderer was wandering somewhere in the lone star state and the Texas Rangers were powerless to stop it, 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 To justify another look at the case, serologist Donna Stanley of the Texas Ranger crime lab felt that the new technologies were promising, we still had a little evidence left in the hope that, as new technology appeared, we could apply this evidence to that new technology and make profits. once again i need to get more information from that file to get something new.

Early comparisons made between suspect Charles Supac's hair and bodily fluids found at the crime scene were inconclusive. Forensic examiners had done all they could, but from the initial investigation a new and revolutionary one emerged. A method for analyzing DNA called PCR had been developed, allowing scientists to obtain DNA from tiny samples, such as a single strand of air or a speck of blood, something they had never been able to do before. Stanley was optimistic that the evidence collected at the Schumacher house three years earlier could finally be used to catch the killer, okay, shortly after the case was closed, Sheriff Cannell had retired and Texas Ranger Ray Kaufman took his place.

Kaufman approved further investigation of the evidence and quickly reopened the file. Okay, thanks mom at the time I got involved in the case. Shupac Murder I knew that DNA was making giant strides in its ability to identify suspects and I felt that this case was one that DNA could possibly help solve, as the preserved evidence was sent to a genetics laboratory. The rangers began questioning neighbors and family members again in hopes of discovering more information about Charles Supac. They soon learned things about their suspect that they had never heard before. Shocking facts that made authorities more suspicious than ever.

Neighbors trusted that Supac had a reputation. Rather disturbingly, it was widely reported that he had unusual sexual habits, including bestiality, but the most useful information came from a man who recalled a strange and frightening night with Charles Supac about four months after the murder. One night, Charles Supac woke up John Goldson late and told Golson that he had been having car trouble and needed help, but something. About Supac's manners they didn't seem right John reluctantly agreed to take him back to his car as they drove aimlessly trying to find the car Golson's suspicions slowly turned to fear He had insisted on sitting directly behind Golson and had spent the entire trip idly wrapping an electrical wire The cord around his hands eventually directed Golsan to a remote area, but when they arrived, his vehicle was nowhere to be seen.

Tired of the whole thing, Olson finally took it to a garage. When Golson got home, he was still feeling uncomfortable. He and his wife surveyed the grounds and discovered that their phone lines had been cut. The story took another chilling turn when Golson showed the Rangers where he had driven to Supac that night. Golson had no idea of ​​the significance of the place, but the importance of it was not lost on Golson's trip with Supac led. that the rangers believed that his former suspect knew more about Schumacher. This is the last place Mr. Shupac brought Mr.

Golson that night. Shupak said he parked his vehicle down below or left it stuck here by this line of trees, this little lane goes down to the shoemaker's residence is maybe a quarter mile right down here supac had returned to schumacher's farm the rangers knew that It was common for a murderer to revisit a crime scene but it would take more than this circumstantial evidence to point Charles Supac to the lab. He had performed complex DNA tests comparing the Supex sample to the evidence from the Schumacher case. Finally, on March 8, 1992, results came back on Charles Supec Jr.'s DNA that was on the victim's sheets.

The updated information finally gave the Texas Rangers the evidence they needed to arrest the man they had suspected for more than five years was once again in another Texas county jail for vehicle theft in the face of undeniable DNA evidence. Supac admitted to raping and murdering Lydia Schumacher in his confession Supac told the rangers that on January 20, 1988 he and his father had finished some work they had been doing at Mrs. Schumacher's house and were ready to call it quits. finished the day. They had spent almost a week at the property and Charles had been inside the house long enough to know that Mrs.

Schumacher owned some gold jewelry, he thought. There had to be more valuables somewhere in the house that night Supac returned, he claimed he had been driving around looking for something to steal when he thought of Mrs. 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 had left the pipe in the yard that day. Now it was the perfect tool and soon it would be the perfect weapon. Once inside, the prowler took a look around him, sneaked into his room and began rummaging through his things.

When he woke up, Supak reacted by hitting her on the head with his pipe before leaving, raping her and suffocating her with a pillow. Almost five years passed, but charles supac jr was finally convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of lydia schumacher. It was a tribute to the tenacity of the rangers 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'm sure it would still be a pending case that would not be resolved. It's easier to catch a killer even years after the crime if he stays put, but game wardens pride themselves on their ability to track fleeing suspects in a state as large as Texas.

It is a common situation. There's usually not much to see on Interstate 35 between Dallas. and Oklahoma, but on August 8, 1994, that changed, a Cook County police officer spotted a body on the side of the road near the Oklahoma state line when Texas Rangers arrived at the scene and found a dead white man in his thirties who had been stabbed several times in the chest. neck and face around her neck there was a shoelace there was a sock stuffed in her mouth judging by the condition of her body it looked like he had been thrown from a moving vehicle a bra and a baseball cap were discovered nearby a pair of men's underwear There were also dark clues recovered but it was enough for the rangers to start taking 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 his identification. The task of tracking down the killer fell. Texas Ranger Johnny Waldrop received a positive fingerprint identification of the victim within two days. He was a 38-year-old Dallas man. His name was James Sykes. James Sykes had a

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ly bad criminal record and was kind of a disposable person. He had no family history other than his parents and he had no money or job and he was a very bad drug addict with an extensive criminal history.

The obstacles we ran into is through research we contacted people and they told us why do you care, we did care because he was an individual like everyone else. Sykes met a rough crowd when officers located his best friend, Murray Bracken. He was in a Dallas County jail on a drug charge and became the Ranger's first suspect. Bracken admitted. That he had been with Sikes just the day before his body was discovered, he even acknowledged that the baseball cap found at the scene belonged to him, but insisted that he had nothing to do with the murder.

Fern said that he and Sykes were partying at a motel when they met a trucker and his girlfriend. The four of them took Fern's drugs and at the end of the party he asked the trucker to pay for his share. The truck driver didn't have the money with him but said he could go. understand james sykes went with the couple to make sure they didn't leave, that was on august 7murray sent sykes with the trucker to pick up the money the trucker for some unknown reason gave him his wallet with his driver's license to bracken and i said i'm from aida oklahoma i'm a trucker i have to be in phoenix in a couple of days and this it's in good faith i will leave you my wallet showing you that i will return with the money they never returned and murray bracken said he emptied the trucker's wallet and threw away his driver's license, unfortunately that was the only evidence that would have supported his story and would have provided a solid lead for the rangers now that he was gone for good to see if bracken was telling the Truth Waldrip called the Oklahoma Department of Motor Vehicles to check for truckers who had applied for duplicate licenses in the last few days.

The DMV gave him a list. It 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 while driving a truck registered to a trucking company in Carrollton, Texas, finished his job and returned the truck to the company, but soon after someone stole it from the lot. Brown was arrested for driving the stolen truck two days later, but was released on bail. Dallas police sent Waldrip his mugshot. Hey, thanks for coming. The rangers put the photo in a photo stack and asked Murray Bracken to inspect the alignment.

In a few moments he acknowledged to the truck driver that he had been the last one. seen with his friend, pointed out Terry Brown, the investigation was gaining momentum, but to prove that Brown was the killer, the Rangers needed more than the trucking company was relieved to recover their stolen truck, only now it was the main evidence in a distant crime. Worse than a robbery, it matched the description Bracken had given the authorities, they were beginning to believe that it was in the van where James Sykes had taken his last ride. The Dallas police crime lab was called to search the vehicle for signs that the victim had been murdered.

The inside rangers knew Brown had been in the cabin, they arrested him in it. Transportation records showed he was driving on business until August 6, some time later he returned to the parking lot and stole the truck, the company reported the rig missing and it was recovered on the 8th. The same day the body was found, Everything pointed to Terry Brown as the killer, but Brown had jumped on Bale. Nobody knew where he was. The team searched the cabin and bedroom for clues. They got what they were looking for on the back of the walls. The researchers 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 confident that additional testing would reveal it was James Sykes' blood The evidence was packaged and sent to the El Criminalist Wilson Young used DNA testing to compare the blood with that of the victim, but what he found surprised rangers and presented a major obstacle. For the investigation, we did a type, we did a DNA type, and we found out that actually, from that platform that we investigated at that particular time, the blood did not match the victim that we were looking for.

We had some blood here, but no. It doesn't match the person we were supposed to match, they found blood in the truck, but it wasn't the blood they expected to find, apparently someone else could have been murdered there, then Ranger Waldrip received news that only complicated things further. . Another female was found and she had a ligature around her neck and a sock in her mouth and of course we found places with a ligature around her neck and a sock in her mouth so my initial gut reaction was that this Murray Bracken was saying the truth and that we probably have a serial killer driving a truck the case had taken an unexpected turn at least two people were dead the serial killer was loose on the interstates of america if waldrip didn't catch up with him soon there would almost certainly be more bodies to identify along the way the murders in Texas did not end on November 7 Ranger Waldrip 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 stuffed in her 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 waldrip spoke to Brown's last employer he discovered. Brown was supposed to have delivered a load to California. He picked up the truck from him on November 6, the day before the murder, and never returned again. Terry Brown had stolen a rig and disappeared. We were very lucky at that time. We finally had a Luckily, this was the truck we were looking for. We found out that 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 rangers had left. Time to respond, the trucking company brought the truck 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 all the evidence stains on the sleeper under the mattress. They were found to be probably caused by blood, judging by the size of the stains, it seemed that a lot of blood had seeped through the mattress into the platform, but it was clearly a new mattress, the company had discarded the old one and it was some vital evidence for the love-struck murder case.

The trash had not yet been collected and among the trash was a mattress old and stained The large stains looked like blood and matched the stains on the van, but detectives were concerned that the days of exposure had taken their toll on the evidence. Everything was sent to a lab in Austin for detailed lab analysis. 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 sample i'm going to need you to turn off the light comparing the dna fragments the technicians confirmed that the blood could match only one person in the entire world james sykes we were sure that the victim's blood was in the truck fact I mean, when you look at the numbers 1 in 5.5 billion, that indicates that that particular person was the only one who was able to leave the blood on the truck that Terry Brown and Tina Sampson were found the next day.

Dallas police caught up with the couple. in their mother's stolen car heading east, they were separated and questioned separately once the evidence was presented to them, investigators were finally told the true story of what happened to james sykes, he was trying of raping tuna, she manipulated my knife to make sure they paid what they owed sykes had gone with them to collect the money. Brown drove to a truck stop and told Sikes to wait in the truck while he went to get the cash, but Sykes became impatient and decided to collect the money from him another way based on the killers he picked up. in the back and demanded sex from Tina Sampson, she panicked and pulled out a knife to defend herself when she returned and saw the two arguing, she assumed the bikers tried to rape his girlfriend, a little angry, he grabbed the knife and stabbed to Sikes Samson, he said she was so annoying, he took the knife and stabbed him some more.

Brown wrapped a ligature around his victim's neck and stuffed a sock into his mouth. Samson said they left his body on his back for a while until they were ready to get rid of it and she told us about how they had driven around a couple days later and had been partying some more, doing more drugs while he was in The bed 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 Terry got into the bed and with just his feet he pushed the body down the bed. side door off the interstate and then headed 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 received a life sentence for the death of james sykes the determination of the texas rangers paid off i think this case epitomizes the rangers we have done for so many years there is a A very old ranger says a wrong man can't take on a right man who keeps coming and that's what we did in this case, we kept coming.

Rangers became famous more than a hundred years ago by doggedly pursuing criminals. all types of terrain using any weapon available and are still armed with the power of forensic science. The killers may continue to flee the law, but with technology as their sidekick, the Texas Rangers will never stop their relentless pursuit.