Reddit reviews Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis

[T. Cullen Davis] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Cullen_Davis) is a Texas multi-millionaire who was acquitted in a double murder of his stepdaughter and his wife's (from whom he was then separated) boyfriend in 1976. At this time, I believe he was the richest person ever to be tried for murder in the U.S.

Essentially, the defense was "his wife was a tramp," but that was all that was necessary in Texas in 1976 if you were rich and your defense attorney was the (in)famous [Richard "Racehorse" Haynes] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haynes_(lawyer)). [Also here] (https://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/obituaries/2017/04/28/richard-racehorse-haynes-whose-high-profile-clients-included-oil-millionaire-cullen-davis-dies-90).

Hayes was then charged with hiring a hitman to kill his wife and the judge overseeing the ongoing divorce proceeding. Hayes is on tape discussing the murder of his wife with an undercover agent (whom, if I remember correctly, was an FBI agent).

There was a technicality involving whether Hayes actually solicited the killing, but in the initial defense Hayes' attorneys claimed that Hayes had himself been solicited by the government to set up the hitman.

I read a book titled [Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis] (https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Will-Tell-Murder-Trials/dp/0151699615) after meeting Racehorse Haynes on New Years Day 1981. Another story for another day.

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