the first time, before he lawyered up again. so fbi profilers came up with a strategy, send over a top-level texas ranger so williams would be more likely to let him in. was the idea that that would fit with his ego? he would view a major with the texas rangers as someone equal on his intellect that perhaps he would talk to. if you sent someone of lower rank, then he would just dismiss them. the ranger and a local cop familiar to williams went to his house carrying a hidden tape recorder. did it work? it worked great. williams let them in, without a search warrant. the subject quickly got around to guns. williams said he d been forced to sell his weapons to raise money since he could no longer practice law. i been in your house. i know you got lots of guns. yeah. okay. how do you think i ve been living? selling guns? yeah, for two years. you don t have anymore? you got rid of all of them? i have one gun that i m trying to sell, and it s just
been linked to that tip that came in after the mcclelland murders. he sent an e-mail in to law enforcement claiming credit for the murders, thinking law enforcement would never figure it out. but he was wrong. investigators didn t have the murder weapon, but they had something else, a bullet they found inside a bag taken from williams storage unit. you know this is what you and your team recovered. yes. a ballistics examiner compared that single unfired bullet to the shell casings found at the murder scene and came up with a match. that live round was ejected from the same weapon that killed the mcclellands. so that was a big moment for us. and prosecutors thought this security video outside the storage unit nailed the case down. they said it traced the movements of eric williams and the crown vic on the morning of the murders. approximately 6:00 a.m. real time. that s when williams in his black suv pulled up to the
lives for something good. they stood up and they did what they were supposed to, and they died for it. this is my chance to tell you the story of the murders of mike and cynthia mcclelland. prosecutor bill wirskye thought if he could prove eric williams had killed cynthia, that would obviously show he killed mike. you ll hear the story of a massive law enforcement investigation state, local, federal agencies working together to build an airtight case. one of the first witnesses called c.j. tomlinson, dallas police officer and friend of the mcclellands. c.j. told the jury how he and his parents found the mcclellands. i took a couple more steps inside the residence, i was hollering for mike. mike, mike! for three days, prosecutors brought a blizzard of witnesses. they told the jury williams had
that better than anyone. she s eric s sister. he was a good uncle to my kids. never missed their birthdays. i never had to remind him. she says, growing up, her big brother was her inspiration. he made eagle scout, went to college, law school, and became a successful attorney. he also served as a captain in the texas state guard. he was driven, he was ambitious. he wanted to make us feel proud of him. so tera and the legal community were stunned in 2012 when her brother, the newly-elected justice of the peace, got into trouble with the law. williams was accused of stealing three computer monitors for his personal use from the county i.t. department. here s surveillance video showing him carrying boxes of computer equipment. it just seems odd that someone like that would bother to steal a few computer monitors. exactly. it was just kind of shocking that someone would go and do
before they left this world. they really did. they made a large impact on a lot of people. a beefed-up multi-agency task force vowed to catch whoever killed the mcclellands and mark hasse. investigators had seen that ford crown victoria on video roaming near the mcclelland home and thought it might be a police car. the terrible possibility it might be one of their own had to be ruled in or out immediately. we checked with every law enforcement agency in the area and identified where every police car was in the area. and none of them were even close to where this image was captured. next, they looked for anyone who for any reason had issues or disputes involving both prosecutors. there didn t seem to be anybody in that group of people that were upset enough that they would want to commit homicide. but there was one defendant involved in a felony they couldn t ignore. there was only one common denominator for those two prosecutors. which was? that was eric williams. e