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Main Street murder in East Texas
A simmering East Texas feud boiled over into bloodshed on Dec. 15, 1951, when Hunter Bergman shot his sister’s ex-husband to death on the main street of Corrigan.
Forty-three year old Dudley Veal heard someone call his name and turned to see who it was. His former brother-in-law fired once from a distance of ten feet, and the bullet tore through Veal’s chest killing him instantly.
Bergman, 55, calmly handed the smoking .32-caliber rifle to a dumbfounded deputy, climbed back in his truc...