“Deacon Jim” Miller, the prime suspect in the ambush of Pat Garrett and many other murders-forhire, was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma on Apr. 19, 1909.

A diabolical genius who never depended upon mere luck, Jim Miller was not just another fast gun. Besides being a professional killer, perhaps the first of his kind, he was a master at manipulating public opinion to suit his own evil ends.

The grisly double homicide of an elderly couple in Coryell County in 1874 proved to be an open-and-shut ...