every monday, and we will get donuts for them, and he would always get their first. in 2011, mark and shannon got a new boss, that seemed to fill right in with their office family. the newly elected district attorney, mike mclelland. my name is michael clung, the criminal district warning for kaufman county. mike stepdaughter, christina foreman, says he loved the job. i think he really did embrace the role as a leader, he enjoyed the people who worked with. he would talk about, you know, this person to this, and i was really proud of them. everything was new to him. he came in and took it over. was he tough? i wouldn t say he was tough on us at all. the greatest thing about him, he let us do will we do best. mike quickly formed a bond with mark cassie, the experienced prosecutor. mark was his best friend in the office. they were very close. mike s wife, cynthia, fit right in the office to.
ashes together for eternity. their extended family united in grief, bid them an emotional farewell. they carry a lot of things from them with me. they taught me very well. they helped a lot of people before they left this world. they made a large impact on a lot of people. multi agency task force vowed to catch whoever killed the mclelland, and mark hasse he. investigators have seen that for crown pictorial on video roaming the 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 we re gonna find where every police car was in the area. and none of them were even close to where this image was captured. next, they look for anyone who for any reason, had issues or disputes involving both
with c.j. tomlinson, friend of the mclelland. he told the jury that he and his friends had found the mclelland s. took a few more steps inside the residence and i learned from mike. mike mike. the bullet for three days. prosecutors brought a blizzard of witnesses. they told the jury that williams had been lying to that tip that came in after the mclelland murders. he sent an email to law enforcement claiming credit for the murders. thinking that law enforcement would never figure it out. but he was wrong. when investigators didn t have the murder weapon, but they had something we else. a bullet that they found inside a bag taken from william storage unit. you know this is what your storage a ballistics examiner can teared that single, and fired bullet to the casings found of the murder scene. and came up with a match. that live rounds was ejected
represented by lawyers. lawyers who kept williams from talking. but then, two weeks after the mclelland s were killed in their home. the special prosecutor s got a big opening that they had not seen coming. we get an email back from the lawyers, basically saying, we no longer represent eric williams. they figured that this was their one window to talk to him. and they knew that they had together right the first time. before he lawyered up again. so fbi profiler s came up with a strategy. send over a top level texas rangers, so williams would be more likely to let him in. this idea that that would fit with his ego? yeah, he would view a major texas ranger is someone equal on his intellect that perhaps that he would talk to. if he sent someone of a lower rank he would dismiss them. the ranger, and a local cup 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.
from the same weapon that killed the mclelland. so that was the big moment for us. and prosecutors thought that this security video outside of the security unit nail the case down. they said it trace the movements of eric williams in the crown bake on the mornings of the murders. approximately 6 am realtime. and that s when the williams, and the black suv, pulled up to the storage unit according to the prosecution. at 6:12 am, the white crown victoria pulled out. by 6:42, investigators knew the mclelland s were dead. or dying on the far. based on the motion detectors on the home security system. at 7:00, here is that white crown vic coming back to the entrance. and 17 minutes later. that black suv pulled out. he committed this crime. his acts alone, and his acts alone, condemn him. to be found guilty of capital