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And at Texas Monthly, we do just that.

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There's a lot of ground to cover in Texas.

And at Texas Monthly, we've been doing just that for 50 years.

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The heroes, trailblazers, and bum steers.

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During the year 2017, the private investigator Philip Klein got countless tips regarding the case of Tom Brown.

We got everything from he was a clown up the circus.

He was a circus trainer or whatever he was with Ringling Brothers in Barnum and Bailey.

All the way to he was a wrestler out in North Carolina, too.

He was in Los Angeles, California, living on the streets all the way to the absurd,

which was there was a motorcycle gang that had kidnapped him on the side of the road after he pumped gas at Fox.

But in September, Klein said, 11 months after Tom disappeared.

He was sitting in his office when a call came through.

And it was a young female from the Canadian area.

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