like a carefully planned operation. an ambush like the hasse murder. did the scene speak to you at all? i felt like whoever went in there had a mission, and they did it quickly and did it efficiently and they were out. later, records from the home security company would confirm stewart s observation. the killer entered the house at 6:40 a.m. and was gone just two minutes later. 20 shots fired in 120 seconds. that was a pretty brutal way to go. lieutenant stewart couldn t help but be affected by the sight of cynthia shot in the head at close range. just looking at her there on the scene, she was targeted, you know. that i mean, she didn t have a dog in this fight. investigators talked to neighbors.
scott in the face, would survive. he was quickly changed down by law enforcement. and died in an explosive shoot out in wise county, texas. this is cell phone video of the shoot out in wise county. the attention of the murders is this. why is county is just 100 miles from kaufman. could evan have killed another public servant in texas? seven weeks earlier? the fbi is now as investigating this case. they want to see if he is connected to mark hasse s murder. two officials guntown in two states. someone seemed to be targeting law enforcement at point blank range! coming up! as the investigation grows more urgent, sudden concerns about da mark and his wife cynthia. i tried mom, he didn t answer. i tried mike, didn t answer. i said okay i ll go on over
that. williams found himself on the wrong side of this police interrogation. okay, judge. before we get started, i m going to read the miranda warning. you re an attorney, you re a judge, so you know as well as i do. i know you got to read it. i understand. williams tried to explain he took the monitors because he claimed he needed new equipment for his office but never got it. that s been an ongoing kind of thing, where i d tell the i.t. people that i need to keep improving things. i understand. but you hadn t put any kind of written request in, nothing like that that s been documented at all. no. mark hasse and mike mcclelland knew eric williams as a colleague in kaufman s small legal community. as boss of the d.a. s office, mike rarely tried cases, but because williams was an elected public official, he made an exception and teamed up with mark to prosecute the case. christina says her stepdad believed williams had violated the public trust.
but he hadn t sat down for a formal interview with investigators. because of his connection to both mark hasse and mike mcclelland, investigators had to take a serious look at him. on the surface it may seem implausible because he s a lawyer and a judge and successful. the more we learned about him, the more viable in our minds he became as a suspect. just the year before, williams had been prosecuted for theft by hasse and mcclelland. you must be champing at the bit to talk to eric williams. obviously, we wanted to talk to him. the problem with that was he was still represented by lawyers. lawyers who kept williams from talking. but then, two weeks after the mcclellands were killed in their home, the special prosecutors got a big opening they hadn t seen coming. we get an email back from the lawyers basically saying, we no longer represent eric williams. they figured this was their one window to talk to him, and they knew they had get it right
not aware of, they ve paid the ultimate price for that. williams was known to be a bit of an odd duck, but a murder suspect? it seems so farfetched that a justice of the peace, a man who had served his county not only as an attorney, a judge, but also as a as a deputy sheriff, would then suddenly turn into this serial killer. uh-huh. yeah, no no one wants to think a lawyer would do that, a person who was a public servant would do that. in fact, he was among the many people investigators had already looked at after the hasse murder. what was his alibi at the time? he said he had been at home either caring for his wife or his in-laws down the street. he also had his arm in a sling when law enforcement came to talk to him, and his excuse was he had frozen shoulder, and wasn t able to use his right arm. he even took a gunshot residue test at his house and passed. and after the mcclelland murders, investigators checked whether he owned a ford crown victoria, the car captur