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Another dead DA in Tx.
Looks like there's something going on down in Tx.
A DA and his wife!
Here's a link to the thread about the previous ADA;
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-DA-shot-outside-courthouse-near-Dallas/page2
Comeuppance?
Texas DA, wife killed -- 2 months after his deputy is gunned down
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/30/justice/texas-da-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
(CNN) -- Two months ago, a Texas district attorney vowed to put away the "scum" who had killed one of his top deputies.
Now, the district attorney and his wife are dead. And authorities aren't sure whether their killings are part of a broader scheme targeting local criminal justice officials.
The bodies of Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found Saturday in their home in Kaufman County, east of Dallas.
"I don't know of anyone who would want to cause him harm," Kaufman city Mayor William Fortner said. "As far as I could tell, he was doing a really good job as a district attorney."
A law enforcement official told The Dallas Morning News that a door was apparently kicked in, and "there are shell casings everywhere."
Authorities have not identified a suspect. Nor are they sure whether the deaths are related to the killing of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was killed on his way to work in January.
The county's sheriff's office brought in the FBI and the Texas Rangers to help with the investigation.
The latest deaths unnerved not just the McLellands' neighborhood, but authorities throughout the area.
Authorities contacted Kaufman County officials to ensure their safety Saturday, and one former prosecutor was "in hiding" Saturday night, CNN affiliate KXAS said.
McLelland was an Army veteran who later earned a master's in psychology and became a psychologist for the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the district attorney's website said.
He later earned his law degree and practiced as a defense attorney and mental health judge before becoming the county's district attorney.
McLelland and his wife leave behind two daughters and three sons. One son is a Dallas police officer.
Another top prosecutor slain
The McLellands were killed almost exactly two months after Hasse was shot to death in broad daylight outside the county courthouse on January 31.
Hasse had feared for his life and carried a gun to work, said a Dallas attorney who described herself as his longtime friend.
Colleen A. Dunbar said she spoke with Hasse on January 24. She said the prosecutor told her he began carrying a gun in and out of the county courthouse daily.
"He told me he would use a different exit every day because he was fearful for his life," Dunbar told CNN.
She said that Hasse gave no specifics on why he felt threatened -- only that he did.
McLelland called Hasse "a stellar prosecutor" who knew that threats were part of the job.
He vowed after Hasse's slaying to put away the "scum" who killed his deputy.
"I hope that the people that did this are watching, because we're very confident that we're going to find you," McLelland told reporters.
"We're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."
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Here's a sympathy for the devil piece from FAUX-Newz;
Texas district attorney, wife, found dead in county where prosecutor was killed
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/3...d-dead-in-county-where-prosecutor-was-killed/
A North Texas county district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said.
Investigators found the bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, on Saturday, said Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis. Police, FBI agents, Texas Rangers and deputies were part of the investigation.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh could not confirm that the deaths were related to the murder of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, the Dallas Morning News reported.
A masked gunman shot Hasse multiple times in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex on Jan. 31.
No arrests have been made in connection with Hasse's murder, according to MyFoxDFW.com.
"It is a shock," Aulbaugh told the paper. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock and until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed.
Aulbaugh said recently that the FBI was checking to see if Hasse's killing could be related to the March 19 killing of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the doorbell at his home. He said it's routine for authorities to look for possible links when there are similarities between two deaths.
Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist who authorities believe killed Clements and a pizza deliveryman two days earlier, was killed in a March 21 shootout with Texas deputies about 100 miles from Kaufman.
Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County, 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
McLelland had said Hasse was one of 12 attorneys on his staff, all of whom handle hundreds of cases at a time.
"Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," McLelland said after the assistant prosecutor was killed.
In recent years, Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
McLelland graduated from the University of Texas before a 23-year career in the Army, according to the website for the district attorney's office. He later earned his law degree from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
He and his wife have two daughters and three sons. One son is a police officer in Dallas.
Looks like there's something going on down in Tx.
A DA and his wife!
Here's a link to the thread about the previous ADA;
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-DA-shot-outside-courthouse-near-Dallas/page2
Comeuppance?
Texas DA, wife killed -- 2 months after his deputy is gunned down
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/30/justice/texas-da-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
(CNN) -- Two months ago, a Texas district attorney vowed to put away the "scum" who had killed one of his top deputies.
Now, the district attorney and his wife are dead. And authorities aren't sure whether their killings are part of a broader scheme targeting local criminal justice officials.
The bodies of Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found Saturday in their home in Kaufman County, east of Dallas.
"I don't know of anyone who would want to cause him harm," Kaufman city Mayor William Fortner said. "As far as I could tell, he was doing a really good job as a district attorney."
A law enforcement official told The Dallas Morning News that a door was apparently kicked in, and "there are shell casings everywhere."
Authorities have not identified a suspect. Nor are they sure whether the deaths are related to the killing of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was killed on his way to work in January.
The county's sheriff's office brought in the FBI and the Texas Rangers to help with the investigation.
The latest deaths unnerved not just the McLellands' neighborhood, but authorities throughout the area.
Authorities contacted Kaufman County officials to ensure their safety Saturday, and one former prosecutor was "in hiding" Saturday night, CNN affiliate KXAS said.
McLelland was an Army veteran who later earned a master's in psychology and became a psychologist for the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the district attorney's website said.
He later earned his law degree and practiced as a defense attorney and mental health judge before becoming the county's district attorney.
McLelland and his wife leave behind two daughters and three sons. One son is a Dallas police officer.
Another top prosecutor slain
The McLellands were killed almost exactly two months after Hasse was shot to death in broad daylight outside the county courthouse on January 31.
Hasse had feared for his life and carried a gun to work, said a Dallas attorney who described herself as his longtime friend.
Colleen A. Dunbar said she spoke with Hasse on January 24. She said the prosecutor told her he began carrying a gun in and out of the county courthouse daily.
"He told me he would use a different exit every day because he was fearful for his life," Dunbar told CNN.
She said that Hasse gave no specifics on why he felt threatened -- only that he did.
McLelland called Hasse "a stellar prosecutor" who knew that threats were part of the job.
He vowed after Hasse's slaying to put away the "scum" who killed his deputy.
"I hope that the people that did this are watching, because we're very confident that we're going to find you," McLelland told reporters.
"We're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."
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Here's a sympathy for the devil piece from FAUX-Newz;
Texas district attorney, wife, found dead in county where prosecutor was killed
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/3...d-dead-in-county-where-prosecutor-was-killed/
A North Texas county district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said.
Investigators found the bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, on Saturday, said Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis. Police, FBI agents, Texas Rangers and deputies were part of the investigation.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh could not confirm that the deaths were related to the murder of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, the Dallas Morning News reported.
A masked gunman shot Hasse multiple times in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex on Jan. 31.
No arrests have been made in connection with Hasse's murder, according to MyFoxDFW.com.
"It is a shock," Aulbaugh told the paper. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock and until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed.
Aulbaugh said recently that the FBI was checking to see if Hasse's killing could be related to the March 19 killing of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the doorbell at his home. He said it's routine for authorities to look for possible links when there are similarities between two deaths.
Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist who authorities believe killed Clements and a pizza deliveryman two days earlier, was killed in a March 21 shootout with Texas deputies about 100 miles from Kaufman.
Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County, 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
McLelland had said Hasse was one of 12 attorneys on his staff, all of whom handle hundreds of cases at a time.
"Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," McLelland said after the assistant prosecutor was killed.
In recent years, Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
McLelland graduated from the University of Texas before a 23-year career in the Army, according to the website for the district attorney's office. He later earned his law degree from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
He and his wife have two daughters and three sons. One son is a police officer in Dallas.
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I wonder what the story behind this is ..
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Somebody or a group of somebodies is obviously fed-up with the "Just-Us" system, and it appears as though they're using the same murderous techniques that members of "Just-Us" use.........Ambushing the "enemy"...
Hell it'd be legal if "they" had tin on their chest and big white letters on their jacket........
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Pity, but not unexpected. And it's not just in Texas.
Pity, that Law Enforcement has been perverted in America.
Not unexpected, because Rulers have steadfastly answered cries for Justice by making even heavier an already too-heavy hand.
How many assassinations of Justice System Lackeys does it take to fix a broken system?
Gambling is so popular around here . . . no pool?
Anyhoo, NON Silver Spoons are indeed fed-up, but WITH CAUSE. The anger is RIGHTEOUS.
I advise America's Top Ten Percent to REPENT WHILE THERE IS YET TIME. Not because I plot vengeance and not because I have information about plots, but because it is LOGICAL.
Nine-plus percent of the top TEN percent serves as MOAT for the tippy-top of the Top One Percent.
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CNN had something of a tie-in to the Colorado warden shooting . . . former cellmates ?
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I do it all the time......
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if that is the case, David Byrnes is next. called it here first.
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What makes you think "Mexican drug cartels" are the only group of people with enough balls to strike back?
It could be Lilliputian tax-evaders...
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From Drudge this morning...
Sounds like LEO's are looking to attribute this and the other prosecutors death to caucasian ex-cons who use the internet...
And...........They're "ramping up security" for officials...
Sounds like big-bold lines are being drawn...
Texas officials ramp up security after DA murder
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...-ramp-up-security-after-DA-murder-4398490.php
Whoever bashed in the door of a North Texas prosecutor's home —and gunned down him and his wife over Easter weekend — unleashed a level of brazenness felt across the state and chillingly similar to the tactics of drug-cartel assassinsOfficials cautioned it is far too soon to know why Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife Cynthia, 65, were killed in their home about 20 miles east of Dallas, let alone who did it.
But the attack, coupled with the fatal shooting of another prosecutor outside the courthouse there in late January, shows little fear of stoking the wrath of Texas.
"At this point, we can just speculate, but whatever it is, it ain't good," said Robert Kepple, executive director of the Texas District & County Attorneys Association.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh told The Dallas Morning News that investigators are examining whether the deaths are linked to the Jan. 31 murder of Kaufman assistant district attorney Mark Hasse.
"It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock," Aulbaugh told the newspaper. "I really can't confirm that it's related but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Officials are also exploring ties between the killings and the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang. The Texas Department of Public Safety reportedly warned officials the gang was planning retaliation following a Houston-based grand jury indicting 34 members and associates of for alleged crimes committed around the state.
The threat, which came from an informant, was deemed to be nothing different than what gang members have muttered for years.
No officials were specifically named, but there was supposedly some talk among the gang members about how the Internet could be used to find home addresses.
Sources said that if the gang did orchestrate the assassination of prosecutors, the Kaufman killings would mark the first time it has shown the ability and willingness to carry out such a hit.
Officials are also looking into whether the Kaufman killings are related to the recent slaying of Tom Clements, the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, who was gunned down after answering his front door.
The gun used in that killing was the same one used by an alleged white supremacist, part of a Colorado gang known as 211, who was killed by police in Decatur, which is about 100 miles from Kaufman County.
As a result of the district attorney's slaying, officials in other parts of the state are evaluating their safety.
Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he spoke with law-enforcement officers regarding staff security.
"This is something we can't allow to continue," he said. "When a law-enforcement officer is taken down, it's not just prosecutors that suffer. It is the entire state of Texas."
The next step is figuring out exactly what happened and why, he said.
Mike Vigil, retired chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said regardless who carried out the Kaufman County attacks, the link to Mexican drug cartels is clear.
"It really paints a portrait of individuals who are either affiliated with Mexican drug trafficking organizations — either directly or indirectly — or individuals who have learned (their) tactics," Vigil said.
In Mexico, an ongoing war between drug cartels and security forces has turned regions of the country into lawless lands, where cartel hit men have shown no hesitation to spray people with gun fire in their homes or businesses, or kick down their doors and disappear them in the night.
"It could be a world of possibilities," he continued. "But it is a common tactic used by Mexican drug cartels and it is signature given the fact that this is what they do in Mexico."
A key is that the killings are exceptionally bold, aside from the fact they were carried out in rural parts of the state, where security is less.
Chambers County District Attorney Cheryl Leick cautioned that regardless of what turns out to be the motive for the killings, there is no such thing as a "quiet sleepy little town" when it comes to breaking the law.
The attacks are a reminder that nowhere is safe, and that when it comes to criminals, there is no way to predict what motivates them.
"Somebody thinks we are living in the Wild West, and they can go around and do this and not get caught," she said. "I have no doubt in my mind they will get caught, and her will be no mercy."
She said every official she knows is either carrying a gun or considering getting one as they await answers on the Kaufman killings.
"Everybody is kind of scratching their heads ... and checking their weapons," she said.
In February, McClelland told the Dallas Morning News that while the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas had taken some punches in his jurisdiction, he wasn't scared for his own safety, but was taking precautions.
"I've shifted up my details some, but otherwise I can't do that much," he said. "There's no holes for me to hide in, and that's not my style anyway."
Just two weeks ago he admitted to carrying a gun everywhere and being careful when answering the door at his home.
"I'm ahead of everybody else because, basically, I'm a soldier," the 23-year Army veteran said in an interview earlier this month.
The McLelland residence, which sits on a large grassy lot mostly barren of trees, was still ringed with crime tape Sunday and remained the center of an investigation led by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office and bolstered by the Texas Rangers and FBI.
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said in a prepared statement that other law-enforcement agencies were also guarding local officials as well as keeping the public safe.
The district attorney's office is to be closed Monday. The courthouse will be open, but have more security inside and out.
The sheriff stressed the investigation was ongoing, and called on the citizens to share tips, even anonymously via the Internet.
Sounds like LEO's are looking to attribute this and the other prosecutors death to caucasian ex-cons who use the internet...
And...........They're "ramping up security" for officials...
Sounds like big-bold lines are being drawn...
Texas officials ramp up security after DA murder
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...-ramp-up-security-after-DA-murder-4398490.php
Whoever bashed in the door of a North Texas prosecutor's home —and gunned down him and his wife over Easter weekend — unleashed a level of brazenness felt across the state and chillingly similar to the tactics of drug-cartel assassinsOfficials cautioned it is far too soon to know why Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife Cynthia, 65, were killed in their home about 20 miles east of Dallas, let alone who did it.
But the attack, coupled with the fatal shooting of another prosecutor outside the courthouse there in late January, shows little fear of stoking the wrath of Texas.
"At this point, we can just speculate, but whatever it is, it ain't good," said Robert Kepple, executive director of the Texas District & County Attorneys Association.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh told The Dallas Morning News that investigators are examining whether the deaths are linked to the Jan. 31 murder of Kaufman assistant district attorney Mark Hasse.
"It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock," Aulbaugh told the newspaper. "I really can't confirm that it's related but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Officials are also exploring ties between the killings and the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang. The Texas Department of Public Safety reportedly warned officials the gang was planning retaliation following a Houston-based grand jury indicting 34 members and associates of for alleged crimes committed around the state.
The threat, which came from an informant, was deemed to be nothing different than what gang members have muttered for years.
No officials were specifically named, but there was supposedly some talk among the gang members about how the Internet could be used to find home addresses.
Sources said that if the gang did orchestrate the assassination of prosecutors, the Kaufman killings would mark the first time it has shown the ability and willingness to carry out such a hit.
Officials are also looking into whether the Kaufman killings are related to the recent slaying of Tom Clements, the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, who was gunned down after answering his front door.
The gun used in that killing was the same one used by an alleged white supremacist, part of a Colorado gang known as 211, who was killed by police in Decatur, which is about 100 miles from Kaufman County.
As a result of the district attorney's slaying, officials in other parts of the state are evaluating their safety.
Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he spoke with law-enforcement officers regarding staff security.
"This is something we can't allow to continue," he said. "When a law-enforcement officer is taken down, it's not just prosecutors that suffer. It is the entire state of Texas."
The next step is figuring out exactly what happened and why, he said.
Mike Vigil, retired chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said regardless who carried out the Kaufman County attacks, the link to Mexican drug cartels is clear.
"It really paints a portrait of individuals who are either affiliated with Mexican drug trafficking organizations — either directly or indirectly — or individuals who have learned (their) tactics," Vigil said.
In Mexico, an ongoing war between drug cartels and security forces has turned regions of the country into lawless lands, where cartel hit men have shown no hesitation to spray people with gun fire in their homes or businesses, or kick down their doors and disappear them in the night.
"It could be a world of possibilities," he continued. "But it is a common tactic used by Mexican drug cartels and it is signature given the fact that this is what they do in Mexico."
A key is that the killings are exceptionally bold, aside from the fact they were carried out in rural parts of the state, where security is less.
Chambers County District Attorney Cheryl Leick cautioned that regardless of what turns out to be the motive for the killings, there is no such thing as a "quiet sleepy little town" when it comes to breaking the law.
The attacks are a reminder that nowhere is safe, and that when it comes to criminals, there is no way to predict what motivates them.
"Somebody thinks we are living in the Wild West, and they can go around and do this and not get caught," she said. "I have no doubt in my mind they will get caught, and her will be no mercy."
She said every official she knows is either carrying a gun or considering getting one as they await answers on the Kaufman killings.
"Everybody is kind of scratching their heads ... and checking their weapons," she said.
In February, McClelland told the Dallas Morning News that while the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas had taken some punches in his jurisdiction, he wasn't scared for his own safety, but was taking precautions.
"I've shifted up my details some, but otherwise I can't do that much," he said. "There's no holes for me to hide in, and that's not my style anyway."
Just two weeks ago he admitted to carrying a gun everywhere and being careful when answering the door at his home.
"I'm ahead of everybody else because, basically, I'm a soldier," the 23-year Army veteran said in an interview earlier this month.
The McLelland residence, which sits on a large grassy lot mostly barren of trees, was still ringed with crime tape Sunday and remained the center of an investigation led by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office and bolstered by the Texas Rangers and FBI.
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said in a prepared statement that other law-enforcement agencies were also guarding local officials as well as keeping the public safe.
The district attorney's office is to be closed Monday. The courthouse will be open, but have more security inside and out.
The sheriff stressed the investigation was ongoing, and called on the citizens to share tips, even anonymously via the Internet.
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