Post date: Apr 18, 2013 12:48:27 PM
USA (Next Media Animation) - The wife of a former Texas justice of the peace confessed on Wednesday April 17 to her involvement with the fatal shootings of a district attorney, his wife and another prosecutor, naming her husband as the triggerman.
According to Reuters, the two slain prosecutors helped persuade a jury to find Mr. Williams guilty of stealing computer monitors from a county building, an accusation that cost him his job in March 2012. Both prosecutors believed Williams blamed them for his removal from office, and believed him to be a threat to their safety,Kaufman County employees and law enforcement officials told investigators, according to Reuters.Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot dead in a car park near the county house in January.
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death at their home two months later, on March 30.
The home of Eric Williams had been searched as part of the probe into the slayings. He was arrested last week on suspicion of threatening violence after electronic threats made to officials investigating the McLellands' deaths were traced to his home computer.
Williams denied involvement in the attacks to several media outlets and has not been charged in the killings.
Kim Williams, 46, is being held in the Kaufman County Jail on a $10 million bond on capital murder charges.
SOURCES:
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/woman-charged-in-texas-prosecutors-killings.html?_r=0
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/us/prosecutor-fatally-shot-in-town-near-dallas.html
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/us-usa-texas-districtattorney-idUSBRE93H03520130418