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One of my most favorite stories because it's in my home state of Texas.

I live in Austin and teach at the University of Texas.

Local author Gary Laverne is going to help me set the scene.

It's April 24th, 1935 in Austin, Texas. It's April 24th, 1935 in Austin, Texas.

It's early evening, and there's a 21-year-old man named Howard Pearson,

who runs into a hospital in the middle of the night,

clutching his arm.

It was called the Seton Infirmary at the time and he

reported to the nurses in the emergency room there that he had been robbed and that his parents had been murdered.

And Howard's also been hurt.

Howard shows up at a hospital with a bullet wound in his arm and they immediately call the police and that's when the investigation began. And this is so unusual because it happened in a really isolated part of Austin, a wooded area right on the river.

There were no street lights, no one around, just

starlight and moonlight. And the police were alarmed. So immediately people

descended upon that area because he did tell them where the bodies were and where this robbery happened.

Even the governor and members of the legislature they descended upon that area and separated themselves into groups and were searching.

That's unbelievable.

I can't imagine that would actually happen today.

But it's because one of the victims was very important.

It was a memorable story.

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