Lets go right now, he said. Simons thought the inconsistencies were likely due to Melendezs drug- and alcohol-addled memory, but the changing statements, plus the fact that Melendez claimed it had been Spence alone who did all the raping and killing, made other investigators suspicious. Simons arrested Deeb initially because he learned that Deeb was going to return to Jordan. Franks said little about the night his son had died, but Dannen believed that he knew more than he was letting on. Luxurious River Cruise on the Brazos River in Waco. So they filed all the other documents they had collectedincluding fifteen witness depositionsand when Krauss sent the final results of the study three months later, they filed those too. Though hed ended up retracting all his statements, Gilbert now told Schonemann, he had agreed to testify against Spence at his second trial because it looked like it was just a hopeless cause. Spence had already been found guilty; what would a jury do to a two-time felon who was Mexican American? When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Please let us know how we can help. Melendez has various jailhouse tattoos: a cross on his left hand, a lowrider and a jalapeo on his right. (Franks was never accused of any wrongdoing.) The former DA remained confident of Spences guilt and felt he had nothing to hide; he was even contemplating filing a libel suit against Pardo for maligning him in Capitol Watch. When Im done with the White case, she told him, Im going to look into the lake murders. (Feazell declined to be interviewed for this story, although he did communicate his view that Prices account of these events was untrustworthy. On May 1 a woman who lived a few blocks from White was violently attacked in her home. There had indeed been bad blood between Deeb and Kenneth, they learned; Kenneth had shouted obscenities at Deeb inside his store, called him Abdul, and made fun of his limp. Franks' body was found propped against a tree, with sunglasses over his eyes. In advance of their testimony, Tony and Gilbert had been brought to Fort Worth, and the two were allowed to see each other for the first time in ten years. June asked him to spend ten minutes alone with each of them. The [murders] made me very angry, Ivy wrote in an affidavit, so hed talked about them with other inmates. In 1991, Deebs appeal was granted when the Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the testimony of a jail inmate should not have been allowed in his initial trial. Melendez had always denied any involvement in the lake murders, but now Simons, encouraged by the headway hed made with Spence, began to press the inmate. Two fishermen discovered the teens bodies, and the grisly crime scene shook even the most seasoned officers and had Waco residents wondering how something so horrific could happen here. Copyright 2022 KWTX. Back in the early 80s when this happened, it had a major impact on the community, Feazell said this week. At times he talked as if he was in a trance, Dannen told me, almost like he was hypnotized.. Perhaps in the end, all might agree that a grave tragedy occurred in Waco on July 13, 1982, and that tragedy continued in a complex case that left many Wacoans, Texans, and Americans pondering questions about life, death, and justice. Dennis Baier, a former Waco Police Officer, recalls the uniqueness of the 1982 murder case. He was caught, brought to justice and later killed on the electric chair in Nebraska. The investigation was initially headed by Lieutenant Marvin Horton of the Waco police department, with assistance from Detective Ramon Salinas and Patrolman Mike Nicoletti. He still thought hed be exonerated.. When Simons had shown it to her, all she could say was that shed bought Jill one that looked similar. They had been stabbed repeatedly and the two girls (A representative from Perrys office insists today that the meeting was solely about funding: Ms. Fred would call now and then and say, Im almost ready, remembered Thompson. As she would later testify, she had checked with the courthouse records and found out that many of the jailhouse informants were getting their cases dismissed by the DAs office. List of people executed in Texas, 19901999, Pain echoes 10 years after grisly deaths (Houston Chronicle, July 26, 1992), "1983 Sees Arrests in Triple Slaying Case", "3 decades after brutal killings, last defendant is no more", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1982_Lake_Waco_murders&oldid=1119631412, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 2 November 2022, at 16:00. About 25 yards from the spot where Tony had said Jill was murdered, Simons was suddenly overcome by a strong feeling. My most vivid memory of the Lake Waco murders were the crime scene photos, Feazell said. His shirt was stained with blood, his chest full of stab wounds. They were the worst I have ever seen. But Melendez later recanted, saying he had only confessed because hed been threatened with the death penalty. Though he had money from his book advance and a few movie options on his magazine stories, paying for the DNA tests had exhausted his savings. Price was astounded to find that a few days before her death, White had received a letter from Spence that had been sent to him by Robert Snelson, one of the men who had testified against him; he was the informant who told jurors that Spence had confessed to biting off Jills nipple. Yes, Kelley repliedin fact, people had asked if they were sisters. In February Spence got his new date with death: April 3, 1997. But he was lonely at the jail. Other evidence, meanwhile, had never been turned over to defense attorneys, including dozens of police reports that seemed to contradict the murder-for-hire theory. He would later point out that the only thing the DNA proved was that neither Washington nor Williams had raped White; it did not exclude them from the crime scene. The shocking crime was more confounding because it seemed so random in nature. I was going to get convicted of those murders whether I did it or not. Yet during his interrogation, Simons made another breakthrough. The interview went smoothly, so the two were surprised when, as they got up to leave, the conversation took a turn. More recently, his son has brought a suit against the state of Texas for wrongful death. Simons, meanwhile, began to work on Gilbert Melendez. ), The truck being destroyedthat was huge. He was obsessed, remembered Thompson, whom he talked to almost every week. Perhaps more significant, however, was the fact that Texas, unlike many states, had no law requiring that a death row inmate be granted legal representation for his writ of habeas corpus. Waco didnt get much credit for physical beauty, but this lake, just inside the citys western border, was a jewel, deep and blue. At the jail, Spence had taken to pacing back and forth, crying hysterically after each marathon phone call with Juhl, despairing that she was about to leave him. He had a mold taken of Spences teeth, then personally delivered it and the photos to Homer Campbell, a forensic odontologist in Albuquerque who had helped solve the Amarillo case. In a written confession, he stated he had participated with Spence and Gilbert in raping and killing the teenagers. I thought that actually when I started giving the statement, he said in a deposition, [Simons] would see that I didnt know what I was talking about and tell me I was full of shit and I was lying. Reaves and others led unsuccessful efforts to exonerate the defendants before Anthonys death. Both Melendez brothers had testified that they had used the vehicle to transport the teenagers bodies to Speegleville Park. The lawyer, on the other hand, spent the month of March in a state of high anxiety. (Simons has said that he got involved only after he received calls from a few of his informants. I dont have any guilt feelings about causing their deaths.. As IVs were placed in each arm, he looked through the glass at relatives of the Lake Waco victims. She wondered about Tony; if he was indeed innocent, surely Dannens discoveries could help exonerate him somehow. Reaves, who successfully overturned the convictions of Calvin Washington and Joe Sidney Williams in the murder of Spences mother Juanita White, in Waco, said he also believes the Lake Waco defendants didnt do it. A story by the Associated Press in June 2013 also found that since 2000, at least 24 men who had been charged or convicted of murder or rape based on bite-mark evidence had been exonerated. Fishermen found the bodies of the three teenagers at Speegleville Park on Lake Waco. Feazell didnt have to rely as heavily on the murder-for-hire theory; thanks to Simons, he had new ammunition. After so long, Thompson told me, and all the promises he made, I lost faith in him. Bernadette Feazell, who knew Perry, arranged for the two to present Melendezs case to the governors deputy general counsel, Mary Anne Wiley. Then, just when it seemed things couldnt get worse, in September 1995 the TRC found itself forced to shut its doors. On instinct, he kept returning to Jill, who he sensed had been the main target. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely. Spence, of course, was not the only client Owen and Schonemann were responsible for; as they worked on his behalf, they were also managing the appeals of several other death row inmates. When Butler first saw the lake murders file, he immediately asked Salinas if theyd checked the bodies for bite marks. Simonss plan had been forming ever since hed first learned about Spence. Simonss exchanges with the Melendez brothers had never been revealed to Spences defense lawyers. Within days, Butler got remarkable news: Campbell was certain that Spences teeth had made the marks. That night, the officers got a huge break when a panicked Kelley called Simons at one in the morning. When Juhl finally did break things off, Spence went so berserk he had to be given a shot of Thorazine. He said there was no way this was a murder-for-hire, Dannen told me. The killers propped Franks body sitting up against a tree and took the time to put his sunglasses on his face as if he were mockingly posed there on display. From the start, hed felt that Deeb was too slight to have committed three murders on his own, and earlier he had followed up with the original tipster, Kader, to ask if she could think of any other suspects. He had collected enough evidence, he told her, to believe that the entire case against Spence, Deeb, and the Melendez brothers had been concocted. There was no evidence he was guilty, he would later tell NBCs Dateline. From the beginning, Feazell was a formidable prosecutor, calling 39 witnesses. He and Melendez drove the bodies to Speegleville and dumped them there. I replied, Whats there to know, Truman? Mr. Simons said, People get killed here real easy. Then, leaning in for emphasis, he added, Even cops. Blum and Dannen were taken aback by what they understood to be a threat. J.R., who also got the call, was to serve as crime-scene investigator; taking separate cars, Price met him and Ramon Salinas at the address. Spence was executed in 1997, Melendezs brother Gilbert died in prison of complications from HIV in 1998, and Muneer Deebwho won an acquittal in a 1993 retrialdied of. But this one, she said, looked shiny and brand-new, not like it had been sitting outside for two years. Though he didnt exactly recant, Douglas told them, I feel Joe Williams and Calvin Washington are being railroaded. They then spoke to WPD officer Mike Nicoletti, who gave a statement saying that on October 31 an inmate named Arthur Brandon had told him about a deal hed made: if he testified against Washington, Simons would drop a pending murder charge. Campbells words had a distinct impact. He really believed that. Deebs family hired a lawyer, who pushed for a polygraph test, and after four days Simons agreed to set it up. WebWaco had been having a violent summer; it was July 14, and already a dozen people had been murdered in the city of 100,000. But the world that she and Turk were investigating was so shadowy that they never got anywhere on the Lake Waco case. His hair is cut close to the scalp, and his close-set eyes are dark with worry. I hope that Mr. Spence is still alive when I do so. He then called the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, though by the end of the conversation, he was convinced that Spence had no chance of a reprieve. Their mother also urged him not to. The Court of Criminal Appeals and all of the federal courts, including the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, agreed. As for the journalist who has kept the case alive all these years, Mr. I was with my uncle and my cousins in Bryan, painting apartments, he told me. Officials believe the teens first were confronted by their killers while they were drinking a few beers at Koehne Park off Lake Shore Drive, with their bodies later dumped at Speegleville Park off Highway 6. In June, Anthony Melendez pleaded guilty to the crimes and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Kelley worked at Deebs store and Simons learned Deeb had taken out a life insurance policy on her and made himself the beneficiary. Who had been the caller? After campaigning on the promise to shake up a complacent DAs office, hed been elected in an upset, and he now set about hiring more prosecutors, tightening protocols for defense attorneys, and increasing security measures. Schonemann also cant escape the past. In 1991 Texas was carrying out more executions than any other state. Simons, who had taken a significant personal interest in the case, requested that he be given permission to continue investigating the case, which he was subsequently granted. This, Schonemann felt, was Spences last good shot at a new trial. Though several people had seen them arrive at Koehne, and Raylenes car was found there, no one had seen them leave. Id interviewed mafiosi and hung with the triads in Hong Kong, he told me, but the first time in my career I felt Id put myself in harms way was being a Jewish boy from New York investigating Texas law enforcement.. Not long after WFAAs investigative series on alleged corruption in Feazells office had aired the previous year, Feazell had filed a libel suit against the TV station; its parent company, Belo; and one of its reporters. I dont trust Reaves or Dannen, he told me. The crime received national attention and became known as the Lake Waco murders. Thompson seems pleased to be there for her friend, happy to be part of what she hopes is the redemption of Tony Melendez. Perhaps Simonss informants knew what they were talking about. I love you all, he said with tears in his eyes. Franks had originally told a newspaper reporter that when his son didnt return home, he became anxious that Kenneth might be in trouble and went out looking for him at four-thirty in the morning. His lawyers, Russ Hunt and Hayes Fuller, were convinced their client was being railroadedin their view, Spences long-running interrogation by Simons had been unorthodox, and the jailhouse testimony against him was suspect. Our feeling of being satisfied, of getting justice, was taken away., In the summer of 2013, Thompson stopped talking to Dannen. This time it was sent to Homer Campbell, the expert in Spences trial, along with Washingtons mold and Whites autopsy photos. This is where they say those three teenagers were killed, he said Spence told him. In June 1991 she got her wish with Deeb, when the Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his murder conviction. When Campbell reported his results, his conclusion was different from Halesit was Williams, he said, not Washington, who had bitten White. It would mean a cut in pay and status, but Simons didnt care. It wasnt right, he said. He asked an investigator with the DAs office to accompany him, and the two men wandered through Koehne Park. He always told me hed be dead before the truth came out, remembered June. When Kenneths mother moved away, the boy had lived with Franks and his partner, Kenneth King. The trial began on June 18, 1984. [12] When Harper was interviewed by Spence's lawyers, he claimed that he was at home watching Dynasty; records showed that Dynasty did not air that night. Feazell, now 71, and Simons spent years defending the investigation and jury verdicts. Melendez gave it some thought. And he didnt eat just anything. She made calls and introduced him to sources who might not otherwise have talked, such as a woman who claimed she had seen Harpers van next to the Pinto that night. But as Baier soon pointed out, there was a problem: when asked for details on Spences car, Melendez had said it was a station wagon. Beginning in 2009, he and Reaves had been in a three-year tussle with the FSA lab after they had tried to take the DNA evidence to another lab for new testing; when FSA refused to release it and demanded an additional $35,000 to write a final report, Reaves had threatened to sue. She asked Dannen to make a presentation, and she set up a meeting at Nancys house. Vic Feazell was the McLennan County district attorney at the time, and his office gave Simons free rein to try to solve the triple homicide. Now none of us could honestly say we knew without a shadow of a doubt that thats how it happened. Schonemann was encouraged. The next day he spoke with Jills mother, Nancy Shaw, and her aunt, Jan Thompson, and revealed a theory that was beginning to take shape in his mind. (Years later, Feazell would tell the Waco Tribune-Herald that the accusation that he had not disclosed exculpatory evidence was a total lie.), But Owen and Schonemann had bought themselves two more months, so they went out on the road again. A second wrote that the marks were more likely than not made by insects or artifacts. If the purpose of the exercise, he continued, was to match these marks to a set of teeth, it borders on the unbelievable. A third thought that some contusions on one body were probable human bite marks, but he couldnt match any of the molds to them. Though he wasnt a regular churchgoer, Simons felt Gods hand in his work, and he often quoted from the Book of Matthew: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.. There was the gold bracelet, entered now as conclusive evidence of where the teenagers had been killed. Congress, no longer willing to pay to defend convicted murderers, had pulled the nonprofits funding. She first reached out to him a couple of years ago, and the two developed a correspondence. Im really getting tired of this shit, Spence whispered to his father, Edwin, before being sent to the Ellis Unit, outside Huntsville. Dannen then arranged for a series of DNA tests, beginning with one of the beer cans. He was a likable guy, intellectually curious, gregarious. The case languished for nearly a year until the work of Simons and others had produced enough evidence again to arrest Deeb and three alleged accomplices in the plot. Then, on the eve of trial, Schonemann got a surprise. Convinced he was on the right track, Dannen shared some of his own suspicions with Thompson. FULL INTERVIEW: Criminal defense attorney Russ Hunt. He was especially struck by one detail: after Spences second trial, Dannen told them, Carlton Stowers, the author of Careless Whispers, had bought Gilberts truck and towed it to Simonss property. Deeb had an unrequited crush on Kelley, yet she was close with Kenneth. Id carried this around too long, she explained to me. Now 76, Thompson doesnt get out much. Meanwhile, Price refused to close the White case; though she now had other investigations to work on, she was convinced that Williams and Washington were innocent and spent her spare time interviewing their lawyers and sources on the street. In July New York Times op-ed writer Bob Herbert dedicated three columns to Spence and the death penalty. He grabbed a stick and dug deep into the leaves. It was so emotional. Schonemann visited Tony and Gilbert again. Feazell said he has never doubted that his office prosecuted the right men. It had been created in 1930, when engineers dammed the Bosque River, and now there were six parks along its edges, with pretty white-sand beaches. This article is the result of a full year of researchdozens of interviews were conducted with the principal and minor players, and thousands of pages of transcripts, depositions, and affidavits, from the cases six capital murder trials and one aggravated sexual abuse trial, were carefully reviewed. A possible answer came from Spences ex-wife, June, who, besides Schonemann, was one of the inmates most consistent visitors. We were finally going to find out what happened to our kids.. [9] Gilbert Melendez died in prison in 1998 from AIDS-related complications. According to the report, Franks had become extremely upset toward the end of the test. Then, six days before Spences trial, they were dealt an even bigger blow: in an unexpected about-face, Tony pleaded guilty in exchange for a life sentence. White, the investigators learned, had gotten off work the previous night at nine-thirty, after her shift at Uncle Dans Barbecue, where she bused tables and washed dishes. On that Friday, she said, I think Ive found out what happened. I am perplexed and bewildered, as Im sure a lot of people are, he told the Waxahachie Daily Light. He wouldnt be the first inmate to falsely confess, thinking, They cant convict me, because I didnt do it. If he did say such things, he couldnt have realized the scenario that would be created by the bite marks and the company of snitches.. But Thompson had never stopped wondering if theyd made a mistake. They kept us locked up. Until we made an arrest in that case, nobody knew who did it and they were afraid their child might be next.. If theres one thing for certain, its that the Lake Waco murder case does indeed stand on its own. 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