The caller stated that he wanted to remain anonymous, but that he wanted to pass on some information

regarding this case. He stated that he was at a pool hall in no cliff and that people at the

pool hall were talking about the complainant's death. He stated that the people were saying that

they believed an individual named Mario Rojas killed the complainant and his girlfriend because

James owed him a lot of money for drugs.

Every day walking in somebody's house they're going to take the plastic out and pop somebody.

So he could get the execution date pretty much any day? Yeah, there's no impediments.

This is Cousins by Blood. Episode 28, Oak Cliff.

On the southwest end of Dallas lies Oak Cliff.

There turned out to be multiple reasons this neighborhood needed to be looked into.

According to Ivan, there was a connection between James and Oak Cliff beginning in the early 90s.

I've been wrote me this in a letter. During the summer of 1991, James had started purchasing his

cocaine from the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. I specifically remember the summer because it was my

last year at Plano Senior High School. While hanging out that particular summer, I remember James

telling me that he had scored a new co-connection in Oak Cliff. He never shared the guy's name,

but I could sense that he was excited. Before making this new connection, James had been getting

his coke from the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas. For some reason or another, James always had problems

with the Pleasant Grove guys, so this is why he was excited to develop his new connection in Oak Cliff.

Over the years, James never mentioned his connection by name, but did share that the guy also owned

a paint and body shop on Jefferson Avenue. Sometime during the mid-90s, I discovered that this

information was true. My wife, Michelle, had acquired a Chevy Cavalier with some front end damage.

One afternoon while talking with James, he suggested that we take it to his friend for an estimate.

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