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Red River Prosecutor: True Cases of Oklahoma Crime
Former Oklahoma judge takes you on a wild journey through the seething hellhole of "The Strip," just across the border from Texas. Bacon tells of his hair-raising experiences with the dangerous and remorseless people that crossed his path in the '60s. This stranger-than-fiction memoir will draw you in and leave you laughing and shaking your head.
320 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1995
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June 26, 2024
Very entertaining memoir. The author talks about growing up in a dysfunctional family in the oil patch, deciding he wasn't going to do that any more, going to law school, and becoming a rural country attorney (the DA). The majority of the time is focused on his time as the DA. In this time (60s into the 70s) because of the situation in this county the DA rode out to the calls for serious crimes. This meant he was able to interview the witnesses right away and see the crime scene before it had much of a chance of being changed or contaminated.
This also means the DA was right there with the crime and its aftermath. It's a tough thing to see people killed, or horribly injured. Watch people having their world break around them as worst possible things, things that only happen rarely and to other people, happen to you or your family.
The author has a ton of anecdotes that make the book a fascinating read. There is a fair amount of humor but also horror, and the horror is the worst because it's true. One brief story that will likely stick with me is the family with a bunch of kids next to another house full of a bunch of kids. They kids constantly spent time at each others house. At some point they found one of their toddlers dead on the road smashed flat after having been run over many many times by passing cars over a couple days not realizing what had happened. The child hadn't even been missed.
It was a good reminder that our police and the District attorney's office deals with the worst of tragedies and people. Often, so most ordinary folks don't have to even think about those things.
This also means the DA was right there with the crime and its aftermath. It's a tough thing to see people killed, or horribly injured. Watch people having their world break around them as worst possible things, things that only happen rarely and to other people, happen to you or your family.
The author has a ton of anecdotes that make the book a fascinating read. There is a fair amount of humor but also horror, and the horror is the worst because it's true. One brief story that will likely stick with me is the family with a bunch of kids next to another house full of a bunch of kids. They kids constantly spent time at each others house. At some point they found one of their toddlers dead on the road smashed flat after having been run over many many times by passing cars over a couple days not realizing what had happened. The child hadn't even been missed.
It was a good reminder that our police and the District attorney's office deals with the worst of tragedies and people. Often, so most ordinary folks don't have to even think about those things.
January 30, 2016
Good history read :)
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