that have come out about that time, from them, that said they would want to get even with people in law enforcement. get even? even three months before the murder, federal officials announced that 34 of the alleged gang members had been indicted for racketeering. they thought, among others, that the ford s role in the investigations. a lot of people were trying to put two and two together. it s one thing if it is one individual who went after mark. it s another thing if it is the aryan brotherhood. oh yeah. prosecutors, not just in kaufman, but across the strait were terrified. we were all targets. and then, seven weeks after the murder, another salts on law enforcement. it looked like it was open season on the criminal justice system! the colorado head of the department of corrections was shot here at his front door on tuesday night. the man s name was tom closet men s. the highly regarded head of the
bad intentions, there were also pickle jars filled with liquid, later identified as homemade napalm. it was just unbelievable. it was like a tactical operator s closet. but they d soon be dealt a serious blow. the lab results came back on all those weapons. nothing matched. the murder weapons were still missing. that s got to be extremely frustrating when you feel like, well, one of these guns i m sure has got to be the murder weapon. oh yeah, deflating. we were positive one of those was going to be the murder weapon. even without the guns, the prosecutors believed there was enough evidence to finally go forward. on april 18th, 2013, ten weeks after mark hasse was gunned down and three weeks since the mcclellands were killed, eric williams was charged with three counts of capital murder.
it was this woman. the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth his wife, kim. they d been married for 15 years, but now she was about to testify against her husband. it was a cold day, and there was excitement in the air. witnesses to the hasse murder, you remember, said the shooter jumped into the passenger side of the getaway car. so police always suspected williams had help. soon after he was arrested, kim williams was brought in for questioning. investigators spent hours talking to her. prosecutor wirskye was watching the interview. she was just not going to give up any information. she talked about her husband and what a great guy he was and how he wouldn t hurt anyone. then, an fbi interrogator, growing impatient, got tougher. he raised his voice with her and was telling her that she
your professional trainer kicks and. and that s where toby and i stepped up and volunteer to help in that role. the crime seemed to be wet every fears, a revenge hit for putting away a bad guy. that struck a chord that reverberated from kaufman to dallas. throughout texas, and beyond! i think every judge, every defense attorney, every prosecutor has that in the back of their mind. does it send a chill for everyone when one of your own is killed like that? it does. whoever did this obviously crossed a line. and it starts making you think, what you do for a living, and your family members, and their personal safety. the initial theories where as numerous as the hundreds of cases that mark had prosecuted. the first place to look was right in kaufman county. where mike was a prosecutor for three years. the big questions that we had is who has he prosecuted recently? sheriff s investigator julie
back in the 80s, he and mark were young guns, working in the organized crime section of the dallas da s office. mark was not afraid of taking on a fight. some of the defendants, and some of the cases, were very bad people. mark had the personality to stand in the breach, prosecute the worst of the worst. what did mark move out of dallas? he wanted a place we had some room, so he bought a house, had the barn out there. he just loved being around animals. besides animals, and wide open spaces, mark had another passion, flying. back in 1995, he almost killed him. mark did have a bad accident. mark had a terrible accident. a five flank murmuration of world war ii s and, 50 years ago this month. mark was part of this aerial armada of vintage planes, when something went terribly wrong. we believe the engine had failed, and he made a forced landing, ran off the end of the