to dateline marshall afternoon in kaufman county, where hundreds of people did attended our memorial service for mark kathy. he was constantly asking for more of my wife s cookies. she makes cookies for the office about once a month, and he would run out in about 12 minutes. mark s longtime friend, marcus busch, also memorialized him. this world is a better place because of mark. and so are we. the world lost a good man. someone who was resolute, always near the difference between right and wrong, and would fight for that. now, special prosecutors toby and bill, along with a multi agency task force were fighting for mark. searching for his killer, but not coming up with easy answers. because he was so close to his friend, an employee, da mark had to bow out of the investigation. he and his coworkers were doing
he said he had been at home. either carrying barr s wife, or his in law down the street. he also had his arm in the sling when we came to talk to him. and his excuse was that he had a frozen shoulder, and couldn t use his right arm. he even took a gunshot residue test at his house, and passed. and after the mclelland murders, investigators tracked whether he owned a fork around victoria. the car captured on video lurking near the crime scene. records show that he did not. the case was still stalled. but soon, the task force would get one of those lucky breaks that they had always hoped for. it came out of the blue. and gave the investigation some much lead it juice. coming up! a special prosecutor goes on high alert. i get on the phone with my wife, and tell her to make sure that she knew where the kids were. and to go inside. keep the doors locked. and a stranger calls with us running laterally shun. i could tell when i listen to this voice, this is, at this
i think it did offend mike on a basic level. these people elected you. you re supposed to be doing good things for the community, not stealing from it. a jury found williams guilty of theft. he got probation, but lost his job and license to practice law. and now, a year later, both men who prosecuted him were dead, and williams was under suspicion. did you bear either of those men any kind of grudge? no. absolutely not. the media got wind of the interest in williams. and just days after the mcclelland murders, he was interviewed by nbc affiliate kprc. he strangely swept in on his segway. has anyone connected with this investigation suggested to you that you re a person of interest in the investigation? no. after the denial, his sympathies. my heartfelt condolences go out to both the mcclelland family and the hasse family because they were in public office doing the right thing, and for some reason that we re
he would run out in about 12 minutes. mark s longtime friend, marcus busch, also memorialized him. this world is a better place because of mark. and so are we. the world lost a good man. someone who was resolute, always near the difference between right and wrong, and would fight for that. now, special prosecutors toby and bill, along with a multi agency task force were fighting for mark. searching for his killer, but not coming up with easy answers. because he was so close to his friend, an employee, da mark had to bow out of the investigation. he and his coworkers were doing what they could, opening their files to investigators. anyway anybody can think of mark s personal background checks have gone nowhere. so the workforce started to look at his professional differences. from 30 years ago, to the week before.
but it was slow going. how do you sift out, well, it couldn t be this person. maybe this person. first of all, you see if they re still locked up. you see where they are. their whereabouts. you see if there s anything unusual or specific about a case that would give someone cause to have a grudge. four weeks into the investigation, a tip came into the county crime stoppers tip line that look like a big break. a tipster said they had been in a bar, in a small town in kaufman. and overheard two white males talking about the hasse killing. in taking responsibility for it. the tip lacked the kind of detail that investigators needed to follow up. and using the crime stopper system, the tipster remained an ominous. if this is going to be the game-changer, investigators within a lot more information. or a little bit more luck. you re still hoping for the big break, and maybe a lucky traffic stop. or someone who knows about this murder s gonna pick up the phone and call him, that w