Mystery Texas killings 'solved': Disgraced court official to be charged with murders of Texas distri

[Paul E Ester]

Source: Daily Mail

Mystery Texas killings 'solved': Disgraced court official to be charged with murders of Texas district attorney, his wife and assistant DA after they convicted him of theft

A former justice of the peace is reportedly set to be charged with three murders, including a former Texas district attorney and assistant DA, after he was arrested on Saturday.

Eric Williams, 46, has been arrested by authorities investigating the murders of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, last month - and the fatal shooting of ADA Mark Hasse in late January.

Williams was booked into Kaufman County Jail early Saturday morning for making terroristic threats and 'insufficient bond.' He is being held on a $3million bond.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308824/Eric-Williams-Disgraced-court-official-charged-murders-Texas-district-attorney-wife-assistant.html

[freshwest]

1. Remarkable conclusion to this story. (dial-up warning, large pic)

[Botany]

7. What a creep!

Just saying on first glance he does look like a stone cold killer .....

Disclaimer all suspects in botany's weird rants are presumed not guilty
until proven in a court of law ......

Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do whatcha gonna do?
When they come for you?
Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bob_marley/

[tblue]

8. Did he think he'd get away with it?

What the hell goes through people's minds?

[Auntie Bush]

2. Nice to know they found the culprit.

He'll probably get executed being it's Texas.

[kestrel91316]

26. If his victims were less than EXTREME RWers, he won't. Just my prediction.

Non-baggers are lesser victims and so the penalties in TX aren't as high. Just like when victims are brown or poor.

[geckosfeet]

3. How does a convicted thief get weapons?

Isn't this guy a convicted felon? How is it that the enforcement of our gun laws is so weak?

Ahhhh shit. Just pile more and more of them up until they collapse under their own unenforceable weight.

On edit: a complete lack of details makes me wonder if this story is a huge steaming pile.

[hack89]

5. He most likely had them before his conviction

and he hid them so they could not be taken away.

[sendero]

6. It is trivial ..

... and I mean trivial for ANYONE to get a gun in this country and it always will be.

[tblue]

9. It's Texas.

Par for the course. And this man is gonna fry one day.

[sendero]

12. If he did it..

... he IS going to fry and it won't take 16 years either. And I'm fine with that.

[freshwest]

13. 'Old Sparky' in Huntsville is no more. He'll be put to sleep like a beloved pet. (large pic)

I worked with a guy who attended Sam Houston State University while the electric chair was used in the sixties. He claimed when they did the weekly tests, the lights flickered at the school and he bent his head and studied a lot harder...

[Paul E Ester]

14. Picture looks like it was generated by CGI

I assume thats the lighting. As a wood worker I find this picture very interesting.

thanks for posting it.

[freshwest]

15. I don't know what a CGI is. It's from the museum there - I picked the one with the most light.

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There were about a dozen pictures on the official website. Most of them much darker. The prison was a major employer years ago. The electric chair was last used in 1964. Executions were suspended untill the seventies.

That is the actual chair. For some years actions around executions were televised, or rather the outside of the prison was. Crowds gathered, some cheering it on and others praying for it to stop and for the souls of the condemned, a late night spectacle. IIRC, the actual executions were at midnight.

It made me think about human nature. The world is a very strange and terrible place at times - really.

[CTCharlie]

18. Wrong!

Your recollections are incorrect. The "Candyman" as he was called poisoned only his own two children for the insurance money. Only one child died. And what I found shocking was the number of people who showed up to protest his execution--including his pen pal, a Texas A&M student who believed he was a nice person. The "Candyman" was named Ronald Clark O'Brien and he was executed on March 31, not Halloween. He did ,however, ruin Halloween for many , many children.

[freshwest]

21. Any reason for such vehemence? Thanks for the correction. I'll edit. Sheesh.

[snooper2]

22. Yo haven't seen you in a while...such a pain in the ass job you have

scrubbing the Intertubes for random incorrect stories on the Candyman---


You've never said his name three times right? DON'T DO IT!

[Laurian]

4. I thought they tested him for gun powder residue

after the killing of the DA and his wife and the results were negative. Seems the previous stories were dismissive of his involvement.

Think I will wait for more information on this one....

[sendero]

16. All you have to do..

.. is wear gloves/sleeves and pitch them when you are done. My recollection is that at least in the first murder, the assailant was so dressed.

The absense of residue doesn't prove anything. However, I'm with you in that it doesn't look like they have much in the way of proof as yet. But if he really did do it, I'm betting they will come up with some. And if they cannot they will have to let him go.

[marshall]

10. Why is solved in quotation marks?

The author is either expressing irony, sarcasm, or doubt. It could mean the case was solved far earlier than this announcement. Or it could mean that the investigators are not competent, or that the solution is not in fact accurate.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Because he hasn't been convicted yet

He hasn't even been charged with the murders, so far; but all signs are that he will be.

[RobinA]

19. So Much For The

so much more interesting White Supremist angle. Again, the banality of evil.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Or the cartels

Both the left and right got this one wrong: just a regular crazy asshole. Redonk.

[Blue_Tires]

25. Who did the warden in Colorado, then?

[politicat]

28. Ebel, the one who punched his own tag trying to flee the TX cops.

With WS help, it appears.

There may still be a link between the TX justice of the peace and the gang. If so, that'll come up in trial.

[siligut]

23. Whew, it's all settled then . . .

[AngryAmish]

24. Why was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood a court official?

[cntrfthrs]

27. I don't know.....

I've got this admittedly vague feeling that although this fool looks like a bad guy, somehow it seems like he ain't got the jam. I also think that the AB wouldn't do anything that public. Suicide. Killing law enforcement would draw literal heat from Hell on themselves...no one, not even them wants that.