The Assassination of Alton Peek

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

34-year-old Alton Peek, Red River County Precinct 4 Commissioner, had everything going for him. He’d been working his way into local politics since high school and was moving up. He had the admiration and respect of the community, particularly in his hometown, Boxelder, Texas. Alton had a beautiful family, a wife and two young boys. So, when he was shot to death while feeding his cattle in August of 1996, a motive, perhaps, perplexed the Red River County Sheriff’s Office the most. Alton Peek wasn’t robbed, he had no financial problems, his political position wasn’t one most folks would kill for. Rumors swirled for years as the case became steeped in controversy, just as they had concerning a case that happened the year before Alton Douglas Peek’s murder: the disappearance of Jennifer Joyce Bench. But as it grew cold and left the local newspaper headlines, they settled. 12 years later, an arrest – shocking to some and no surprise to others – brought everything back to the forefront. However, nothing stuck.

If you have any information about the 1996 murder of Alton Peek or the 1995 disappearance of Jennifer Bench please contact the Red River County Sheriff’s Office at (903) 427-3838.

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Sources: The Clarksville Times, The Paris News, and tshaonline.org.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.0	Box Elder Texas.
0:11.0	To call it a small town is an overstatement. Named for a type of maple tree
0:16.8	that plentifully lines the area's creeks, the rural community is home to a church, a cemetery, and in the mid-90s about 200 residents scattered throughout with
0:28.8	expansive thickets or ranch land between them.
0:33.0	There's not much more other than the Box Elder store,
0:37.0	which sold everything from hunting and fishing licenses,
0:40.0	first aid supplies, and livestock feed to coffee, cold drinks, and gasoline.
0:48.0	Political arguments and business advice were available at the Box Elder store for no charge.
0:55.0	About 7.5 miles north of Box Elder is Anona.
1:00.0	Unlike Box Elder, Anona is an incorporated city, but in 1996 was home to only 100 more residents, if that.
1:10.0	Anona is about 8.5 miles east of Clarksville, Texas, the area's big city at around 4,000 or so residents in the mid-1990s.
1:21.0	It's the seat of the county that encases all of these places, Red River County, which sits at the Texas-Oklahoma border.
1:30.0	On the front page of the city's newspaper, the Clarksville Times, you'd most often find stories
1:36.4	that fit squarely within what most folks considered normal life in their slow-paced and
1:42.2	bucolic environs.
1:44.6	An article about the groundbreaking for the new site of the Baptist church in a nearby community,
1:51.0	perhaps, or all the information you need to attend the Stuukukoff, a fundraising
1:56.5	effort for the county fair, maybe something national.
2:01.3	It was almost unheard of to pick up the times and find a missing persons or murder investigation story, particularly any such mystery that took place in the small towns and communities that surrounded Clarksville.
2:16.6	But 1995 and 1996 saw one of each, what gave area residents even more cause for alarm and more fuel for rumors and
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