T. Cullen Davis Case
This is a case that has always fascinated me. It was one of the first true crime stories I recall ever reading about but until I decided to do this blog I had not really researched it in quite some time. This is the story of how the richest man in Texas got away with murder. There is simply no other way to put it. The evidence against this man was enormous. In a second trial, that he was also acquitted for, he was even heard on tape ordering the murders of his estranged wife, who had survived the first attempt, and the judge proceeding over their divorce. Thomas Cullen Davis (aka T. Cullen or simply Cullen) inherited his fortune from his father through oil. It has been said that the character of J. R. Ewing from the television show Dallas was at least partly based on Cullen. Cullen and his two brothers had inherited their fortune and the oil company in 1968 when their father died, although working for their father prior to his death had not had them...