Murder on Ice

Steve Russell
6 min readAug 8, 2019
Photo From Williamson County Sheriff’s Office

Volunteers and Public Tips Thaw a Cold Case in Texas

If, as lawyers claim, “hard cases make bad law,” sometimes hard cases improve police practices. The combination of law enforcement officers knowing more and technology making more possible can sometimes heat up the coldest of cold cases, and we’ve got one thawing here in Central Texas. Williamson County, to be more exact.

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)