Freda "Susie" Mowbray
The only thing that this case has in common with the last two blogs that I have done is that the accused was a woman, oh and they were convicted for a crime. The difference here is that Susie Mowbray was retried after serving nearly nine years in prison and acquitted. There are some that think she should have never been charged and others who believe she got away with murder. In the end, whether you believe she was guilty or innocent even the second jury admitted it came down to the investigation conducted by law enforcement and the behavior of the prosecution. Several years later Cameron County Texas, where this case took place, would be rocked with a scandal involving corruption that most say was so deep and outrageous only a fiction writer could talk about it. It was not clear just how long the corruption went back but more than a dozen people were involved including a judge, a State Representative and several current and former members of the DA office. Some of th...