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A bloody triple murder in the big thicket
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]en years into a 99-year prison sentence for murder, a trusty told the guards he was going fishing on Apr. 11, 1930 and vanished into thin air.
In February 1915, a farmer and his son hunting in the Big Thicket, the impenetrable natural wonder that once covered portions of 11 southeast Texas counties, came upon a partially decomposed corpse in a shallow grave.
The coroner’s educated guess was that the man had been dead two weeks, but the bullet holes in the victim’s...