Posted in Biography, Crime, memoir, Texas on May 15, 2022

 

 

 

WASHED IN THE BLOOD

 

by

 

SHELTON L. WILLIAMS

 

 

Genre: Memoir / Biography / True Crime

NEWLY UPDATED!

Date of Publication: February 17, 2022

Number of Pages: 175 pages

 

 

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The true story behind the Kiss and Kill murder in Texas in 1961. Author Larry King says: Washed in the Blood is a page-turning read about the time–early 1960s–and place–Odessa, Texas–during its rowdy oil boom days when violence often rode the range. It is at once an examination of local mores and foibles, piety and hypocrisy and an inside-look at the famed ‘Kiss and Kill’ murder of a 17-year-old would-be actress, Betty Jean Williams, whose ghost is said to haunt the Odessa High School campus to this very day.

 

 

 

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  1. Betty Williams
  2. Tommy’s Drive-Inn where Betty and Mack met (artist Mike King)
  3. Warren Burnett, lawyer, Mack Herring, and family (photo credit Shel Hirschhorn)
  4. The Williams Boys: Uncle Chet, the Jeweler; Uncle Bill, the Bad Boy; Grandpa Pete, the Kid Evangelist; Joe, dad, and deacon
  5. Mack’s Girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelton L. Williams (Shelly) is the founder and president of the Osgood Center for International Studies in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and he taught for nearly 40 years at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He has served in the US Government on 4 occasions, and he has written books and articles on nuclear proliferation. In 2004 he began a new career of writing books on crime and society. Those books are Washed in the Blood, Summer of 66, and now the three books in the Covey Jencks Mysteries series. All firmly prove that he is still a Texan at heart.

 

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