he s strangely swept in on his segway. is anyone suggested to you that you are a person of interest in the investigation? no. after the denial, his sympathies. my heartfelt condolences go out to both the mclelland family, and the hasse family. because, they were in public office. doing the right thing. and, for some reason, they were not aware of. it made the ultimate price for that. williams was known to be a bit of an are duct. 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. and a judge. but also as a deputy sheriff, would then suddenly turn into the serial killer? yeah, 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?
get away from them. cynthia s body was in the middle of the living room, and she clearly was not expecting anyone. she is not dressed for company. she s trying to get dressed. mr., say way. he isn t jogging pants, with no shirt on. there were shell casings next to mike s body, indicating that the killer had finished him off at close range. the suspect was standing up, right on top of him. over him, shooting him. to investigators, like lieutenant joly stewart of the sheriff s department. it looked like a carefully planned operation. an ambush. just like the hasse murder. did the same speak to you at all? i felt like whoever went in there, had hey mission. and they did it quickly, and they 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 am. and what s gone just two minutes later.
texas where bold. first, prosecutor mark kathy gunned down in a public square in broad daylight. two months later, district attorney mike mclelland and his wife, cynthia. killed before done in their home. investigators hope that this latest crime scene would provide more leads than the hasse killer dead. they already knew that they had shell casings. would there be other clues inside the house to help catch the killer? it was just a straight-up, whodunnit. we did not know. texas ranger, eric, was part of the team that entered the home. the front door was not kicked in. the door was unlocked. their shell casings are from forefoot in. shell casings are 2:23 caliber. that told them that the killer used an ar-15. or am for type semi automatic weapon like this one. it started exactly when the door opened. miss mclendon and mr. mclelland where we re treating, trying to
up to, and including a police officer. what did she say? i could hear the fear in her voice. and i knew right then that we had to put him in jail for something. it became very personal, in a matter of life and death for us. back inside, researchers found something interesting. a scrap of paper with two hand ridden numbers. so they selected it. because it was near the computer, and they thought that it might be important. and it was, a sheriff s deputy recognize the user i.d. for the county crime stoppers anonymous pipeline. the first number corresponded to a tip from earlier in the hasse eke case. the tipster seems to have overheard two men in the bars said they kill mark hasse. see that main the tip came from williams computer. a follow-up computer search also revealed that williams had searched several how to websites. one of the websites was, how to throw the police officer investigation. by sending in fake tips. the second number on that scrap of paper was even more i
weapon. we were positive that one of those guns were gonna be the murder weapon. even without the guns, the prosecutors believe that there was enough evidence to finally go forward. on april 18th, 2013, 11 weeks after mark hasse he was gunned down. and three weeks since the mclelland s were killed, eric williams was charged with three counts of capital murder. prosecutor said the murder was revenge. one of the things that i found out about eric williams, the first big thing that went wrong in his life. this was how he was gonna react, with rage and homicide and violence. it all seemed so senseless to the macallan and sauter, christina. this all started over three computer monitors. and now we re talking about three murders? yeah. normal people don t do that. god bless these united states, in the great state of texas. eric williams went on trial for murder, in december 2014. the state of texas versus eric williams. williams was on trial for the murder of mark hasse