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It's my very first afternoon in South Texas, and Tim takes me to his office.

To get there we drive past a little donut shop that sells super sugary iced coffee.

Then we pull into a strip mall with a dollar general and a dive bar.

Texas Aquasurge is across the street from a field, which someone is mowing as we arrive.

We're in the back yard of the oldest shop, instead of in Dictator.

The office's facade is painted to look like a wooden barn with windows and horse stables,

but that paint is cracked and faded.

It's a little dingy.

The passerby would have no clue that Tim Miller has more resources at his disposal than most police departments do.

It's inside of this office that I find myself standing next to Tim's employee, watching a video on her desktop computer.

The video is of a prank that Tim played on Clyde about a decade ago.

A little backstory.

Clyde used to put out four grave stones in front of his house every year for Halloween,

and four women were found in the killing fields.

So at some point Tim had convinced himself that the decorations contained a secret message,

a winking admission that Clyde committed the murders.

The son of a bitch used to hit Halloween.

He would actually stalk us in ways.

He would decorate his house any time for caskets in the front of his house and all kind of weird shit.

His reaction was bizarre.

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