The Rio Grande Sniper Killings: Caught in the Sights of a Drug Conspiracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467153430)

Untangle the complex conspiracy that led to the tragic deaths of Charlotte Kay Elliott and Kevin Edwin Frase on the banks of the Rio Grande. On the night of July 13, 1980, a hitman fired a high-powered rifle into the crowd at Pepe's On the River, an outdoor bar in Mission, Texas. He missed his target, a witness in the Loop 360 drug case, but killed two young bystanders. While state court prosecutions for capital murder inexplicably faltered, a federal court gave the assassin a life sentence for attempted murder of a grand jury witness. A member of the judge's staff who was present throughout the trial, author John W. Primomo revisits the dramatic twists and turns surrounding this murder on the Rio Grande.

Author: John Primomo
ISBN-10: 1467153435
ISBN-13: 9781467153430
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2023
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.47d