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Sources: Williams linked to threatening e-mail (Texas DA murders update)
WFAA ^ | 4/14/13 | REBECCA LOPEZ

Posted on 04/14/2013 7:54:04 PM PDT by jimbo123

On March 31, the day after Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were found dead in their Forney home, someone sent an anonymous e-mail threatening additional attacks, sources tell News 8.

That e-mail was traced back to former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams, according to those sources. Williams is the main suspect in the murder case, sources say. He is currently jailed on unrelated charges and being held on $3 million bond.

News 8 has learned that 20 weapons were recovered from a unit at a Seagoville self-storage locker in connection with the unsolved Kaufman County murders. Sources said the locker had been rented on behalf of Eric Williams.

A source tells News 8 federal investigators are conducting ballistics tests on the weapons, which are similar to those used to kill Kaufman County prosecutor Mark Hasse on January 31 and District Attorney Mike McClelland and his wife Cynthia, who were found dead at their home on March 30.

Sources said investigators also seized a Ford Crown Victoria sedan from the storage facility that was allegedly purchased by Williams back in February under a false name.

Sources said they have surveillance video of that vehicle driving into and out of the McLellands' neighborhood on the day they were slain.

(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ericwilliams; kaufmancounty; mikemclelland; texas
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1 posted on 04/14/2013 7:54:04 PM PDT by jimbo123
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A LEO guilty of a crime?

Who'da thunk?

2 posted on 04/14/2013 7:57:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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He used 20 weapons in the murder??????????????????????????? wow


3 posted on 04/14/2013 7:58:50 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Paladin2
The real question: IS he a Democrat?

The press was very interested in this story when they thought the killer was a right wingers...

The MSM was ready to make connections - paint with a broad brush... now? Can't even find the guy's party affiliation. I'm betting dem, anyone know?

So, is he a dem?

4 posted on 04/14/2013 8:00:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: jimbo123

Looks like a democrat to me.
5 posted on 04/14/2013 8:04:57 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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the car thing is pretty incriminating, course they will have to show it was him in it


6 posted on 04/14/2013 8:05:14 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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but why would he be stupid enough to send emails? see, if he is a lawyer, he knows the only reason you send an email is because you WANT a record, that’s why it’s better than a phone call


7 posted on 04/14/2013 8:06:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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""Republican challenger Eric Williams defeated 18-year incumbent Democrat Johnny Perry to win the Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace race in Tuesday’s General Election." http://www.terrelltribune.com/news/article_4b1f13e7-8641-5ab0-8af4-f4e21e291ad8.html "

doesn't mean he isn't a RINO, Constitution denier.

8 posted on 04/14/2013 8:08:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Mohundro also said the Williamses never had many visitors, and that Williams was known for riding his Segway around.

“In the mornings when he was still at the law office, he would be riding his little Segway to work with his briefcase,” Mohundro said. “On the weekends, he’d be riding his little Segway with fatigues on.”

“Anybody that rides a Segway up and down the street in Kaufman, Texas, is kinda strange, but that doesn’t make you guilty of anything.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20130413-ex-justice-of-peace-is-prime-suspect-in-kaufman-da-slayings.ece


9 posted on 04/14/2013 8:16:46 PM PDT by jimbo123
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He apparently made some sort of demands in those emails, too.


10 posted on 04/14/2013 8:17:35 PM PDT by jimbo123
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is this the one that the media is blaming on white supremacists?


11 posted on 04/14/2013 8:19:03 PM PDT by digger48
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To: yldstrk

And the reporter says those 20 weapons were “similar” to the ones used in the two murders of the men.

I do not believe he had 20 weapons all alike. Maybe he did, but I doubt that.


12 posted on 04/14/2013 8:19:16 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Paladin2

It is getting to where there isn’t much difference between the parties. They both are radical leftists just one is more radical than the other.


13 posted on 04/14/2013 8:19:18 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: yldstrk

He apparently hid the car in the self-storage units, along with the guns. And he might have had his in-laws rent the storage unit for him, too.


14 posted on 04/14/2013 8:19:44 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Could not possibly be Mexican drug cartel killers, from what I read here /s


15 posted on 04/14/2013 8:20:13 PM PDT by DBrow
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is this the one that the media is blaming on white supremacists?

Yes.
16 posted on 04/14/2013 8:20:42 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Anyone else smell fish?


17 posted on 04/14/2013 8:22:48 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

The truth ain’t out yet.


18 posted on 04/14/2013 8:28:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Liberty Valance

I smell one person with a grudge killing 2 other people with a grudge.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20130413-complex-picture-arises-of-ex-kaufman-justice-of-peace-eyed-in-case.ece

‘Mutual dislike’
By Williams’ account, there was bad blood between him and McLelland long before Williams first faced criminal charges in late 2011. That was less than a year after Williams was elected as a justice of the peace and McLelland became DA.

Williams tried to get McLelland disqualified from prosecuting him, according to court records. David Sergi, one of Williams’ attorneys, wrote that “a high degree of animosity” developed when Williams opposed McLelland’s unsuccessful 2006 bid for the DA’s office.

Sergi alleged that the “mutual dislike … only intensified” when Williams published a letter shortly before the 2006 election day “questioning whether McLelland possessed sufficient character and integrity to hold office.”

Williams’ attorney characterized the criminal charges as “an attempt to settle a political grudge.” He also noted that when Williams was removed from office, the man he had defeated was selected to replace him.

Records show that Hasse wrote to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct about the criminal charges against Williams. And McLelland testified that he personally called military authorities to tell them about Williams’ troubles with the law.


19 posted on 04/14/2013 8:31:21 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: yldstrk

Doesn’t have to worry about emails - he’s a dem.

He’s counting on a pass from the MSM ... and he’ll get that... This story is dead to the New York Times. They only cared if the deaths could be used to gin up hate for conservatives.... with a broad enough brush they might have pulled it off.

If you doubt me, check to see if you can find his party affiliation. I spent some time on it and it’s not there. The MSM is in ‘full cover’ mode. This story made the front page of my local paper. That’s not going to happen again... not when the killer’s a dem.

Now? Now that he’s a dem, they’ll slink back into their little holes ... or under their rocks. Because when it’s a dem doing a crime - there ARE NO CONNECTIONS.

Jerks.


20 posted on 04/14/2013 8:43:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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