Murder Most Texan

Texas has long boasted its iron fistof the law and strict treatment of its hardest criminals.

Nevertheless,scoundrels, fiends and homicidal criminals inevitably slipped through the LoneStar justice system despite the best efforts of even the legendary TexasRangers.

From roadside murder to political assassinations, discover the seedy underbellyof Texas' murderous past.

In 1877, Texas saw its first high-profile murder casewith the slaying of a woman in Jefferson and the subsequent "Diamond Bessie"trial.

Over a century later, state legislator Price Daniel Jr. was shot in coldblood by his wife at their home in Liberty.

Texas true crime writer andhistorian Bartee Haile unburies this collection of sixteen coldblooded killingsfrom Lone Star history and the dirty details that have shocked and bewilderedTexans for decades.