about 10 years ago, but kennedy at the ft. worth star-telegram dug out some of these old headlines of that attack on the flake family for a column he wrote about it. from the local headlines and the stories he was able to piece together at the time, he was able to fit together it evolved. police might ve said they were investigating the, quote, mobbing. police told the local press at the time that the mob destroyed the family s window and broke windows, damaged the building, hit a man at the scene with the baseball bat. the next day, quote, they came and turned on the gas jet and fled. the building was burned too. even though that s what happened and the police were on it and had been on it for four straight nights, by the time the family was burned out, nobody was ever arrested, apparently. according to but kennedy. nothing further was published about the incident or any investigation. and like i said, she was 12 years old when it happened. one of three children of otis and maddie fla