Catherine Mehaffey Shelton
Catherine Mehaffey Shelton I am currently reading the book, Luggage By Kroger , written by Houston reporter, Gary Taylor. He had a very short lived but volatile relationship with then Houston attorney, Catherine Mehaffey. At the time he met Catherine she was involved in a civil suit. She was not the attorney, but the plaintiff against the estate of an ex-boyfriend who Catherine claimed as a common-law husband. The ex-boyfriend, George Tedesco had been found brutally murdered in the garage of his home in January of 1979. Catherine had been suing him for a divorce and they were due in court on the day he was found murdered. Catherine would lose her civil case against George Tedesco's family when there was no proof that the couple had ever portrayed themselves as a married couple, one of the main things in order to prove a common-law marriage. In fact, Tedesco's family could never even prove that the couple had lived together, even for the three short months