She said, Johnny. The kids didn't come home last night. A small town is only as safe as the secrets hidden behind closed doors and the evil that lies behind them.

When the murders happened, it really put everybody on edge because nothing like that had ever happened in Weatherford before.

She had seen the body shaking actually been shot.

This murder case is it's a big deal for such a little town and it needs to be recognized and finished.

During the 1980s, the bodies of teenagers piled up amid rumors of widespread corruption running all the way to the top.

40 years later, angry townsfolk, tired of being ignored by law enforcement, start talking.

She gets out of the car, she turned around and looks at me, and she goes,

Mama, I love you, goodbye.

That was the last words I heard from her, and that was the last time I saw her.

Along the Central Texas Plains, where ranches, rodeos, and cutting forces are the usual topics of conversation.

Teens are dying.

Suicides that don't make sense.

Strange accidents and brutal murders.

There's blood inside the car, blood still dripping out of the car,

they were both shot in the head.

All these years later, some claim that the people put in charge of stopping the madness

are the same group behind it.

We learned real young in life that just because they were law enforcement didn't mean they

were good people. Then all of a sudden I heard him say we killed those kids.

Have local power brokers been protecting a sadistic killer for over four decades in what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of breaking bad?

Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people.

I got two text messages on my phone.

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