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...Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...
...folklore monsters of the media age. And to hear him tell it, Henry Lee Lucas was the most monstrous of them all. After his arrest in 1983 on a weapons charge, the one-eyed drifter startled Texas police by confessing to scores of aimless murders in 27 states. Soon lawmen from around the country were converging on Texas to see if Lucas might lay claim to unsolved killings in their jurisdictions. He was jetted to murder locations, and as he spoke impassively of stranglings and dismemberments, police gave him meals, gifts and national notoriety...
...chief controversy in the case, however, concerned the methods of the fabled Texas Rangers. The defense presented lawmen from around the country who testified that the Rangers ignored contrary evidence and who suggested there was undue Ranger pressure to keep Lucas confessing. Ridiculous, says Ranger Captain Bob Prince, who denies that milk shakes had been offered for every new murder Lucas cleared or that he had been threatened with a return to death row if he clammed up. "Lucas did the leading, he wasn't led," Prince insists. "He is guilty -- unquestionably -- of a great number of murders...
...corrupting influence of drug money frequently leads to tensions between lawmen on opposite sides of the border. U.S. officials say rogue Mexican cops sometimes provide armed escorts for truckloads of dope moving north to the States. Mexican police have accused Starr's sheriff, Eugenio Falcon Jr., of invading a hospital south of the border in Reynosa and murdering a drug runner who was a suspect in a Starr County multiple killing. "The charges are ridiculous," insists Falcon...
...drug traffic increases, author- ities are counting on "Operation Alliance," the Reagan Administration's recently announced antidrug program, for more agents and equipment. But local lawmen fear that the expensive new enforcement program, which extends along the entire length of the Mexican border, will not succeed unless Starr's citizenry can be enlisted in the war against drugs. At present many residents regard the narcotraficantes as local heroes, and their exploits are celebrated in ballads called corridos, which play on radio stations. In the river hamlet of Fronton, a monument was erected to mark a smuggler's death...