Before Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields on Netflix, there was The Sheriff's Son - a potential suspect for the League City murders. This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween evening, 1961, Claudette's remains were discovered eight miles from town in a field. She had been shot twice in the head. From the beginning, town folks believed that she was murdered by the corrupt sheriff or his 18-year-old son, whom she was dating. Because of the corrupt sheriff's influence, no one was ever charged with the murder. The story follows the life of the sheriff's son from 1961 to his death in 1998. The son was on the edges of many similar murders of young girls in the Houston and Galveston areas-but he was never charged. After 1961, the sheriff's son was arrested twice for the rape of 12-year-old girls, essentially walking away from these charges due to the connections of his father. After the deaths of the father and son, former wives and step children, no longer terrified-came forward. They tell a horrific story of brutality, rape, incest and murder at the hands of the son. Our novel connects the dots and makes the case that a serial killer went to his grave never charged with his many crimes against young women.

John Beaudry was a fearless sheriff in the Wild West who ended up killed by the notorious Rutherford crew, leaving behind a young and fragile boy. Many years later, Roy Beaudry is a grown man who never managed to live up to the standards his father set. However, when an old friend of his father reaches for help, Roy returns to his father's country, determined to overcome his nature and confront his demons. A local rancher has been missing for a while after interfering in the dealings of the same Rutherfords, who are suspected of pulling off a recent train robbery, and Roy gets a chance to stand up against the Ratherford clan and avenge his father's death.

twins on the doorstep WHOSE BABIES WERE THEY? When single mother Justine Murdock found baby twins abandoned on her doorstep, she saw the Murdock chin and big green eyes in those sweet little face. Oh, maybe she was just imagining the family resemblance. Or maybe she was just stalling on calling the too-handsome, too-sharp sheriff…. Sheriff Roy Pardee thought all babies looked alike, but the minute he arrived at the Bar M ranch he did notice a startling family resemblance. Between himself and Justine's five-year-old son. Who those little twins belonged to was a mystery. But who Justine and her boy belonged with was clear as day…. twins on the doorstep. Those little babies lead the Murdock sisters straight to love!

They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.

Are you concerned about the direction America is headed? Who is out there in the trenches fighting for our freedom and holding fast to the Constitution on our behalf? Our County Sheriffs are the last bastion of freedom against government overreach on a local and federal level. In American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World you will learn about one of those freedom fighters, Sheriff Mark Lamb, and how living overseas as a youth and ability to "Fear Not; Do Right" have shaped his ideals and convictions to love America. As the descendant of Pilgrims, he has been forged by hardships, wins, and losses to rise above the challenges and lead from the front, in Law Enforcement and in Politics. Read about the core values that has shaped Sheriff Lamb into the person he is and is becoming including: *Faith *Family *Love of Country *Courage *Perseverance Sheriff Lamb uses a unique business and marketing approach to politics, and empowering leadership style. You will be inspired by his patriotism, failures, wins, and hard work as you follow along with the stories of one of the most well known American Sheriffs of our times.

An Amazon Best History Book of the Month This true crime story transports readers to a tumultuous time in Texas history—when the old ways clashed with the new—as it sheds light on police brutality, gun control, Mexican American civil rights, and much more “[A] riveting story of a time when sheriffs could get away with murder.” —Dallas Morning News Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point–blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine’s full–page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville’s favorite son, Johnny Barnhart. Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again. The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo–Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban–rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, mistrust of politicians and the political process—all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.

The Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a difference, and racial apartheid was still rigidly enforced. Citizens expected their county sheriff to uphold local customs as well as state laws. He had to help constituents with their personal problems, which often had little or nothing to do with law enforcement. The rural sheriff served as his county’s “Mr. Fixit,” its resident “good old boy,” and the lord of an intricate rural society. Basing his interpretations on primary sources and extensive interviews, Thad Sitton explores the dual nature of Texas sheriffs, demonstrating their far-reaching power both to do good and to abuse the law.