Parents in a small Texas town, south of Fort Worth, were horrified to wake up one Sunday morning and discover that two young women had been found murdered in their apartment near downtown. The women, cousins, had recently moved to the apartment, just across the railroad tracks from their parents and grandparents, in the town where "things like this just don’t happen." Until that day, those whose kids opted to stay instead of heading out to lives in "big city" Fort Worth or Dallas had been deluded into thinking they were safe. Together, the two girls had been stabbed 63 times. The apartment, a hang-out for local teenagers and 20-somethings, was covered in blood. Who killed them and why? Where was the murder weapon? Why was the apartment upstairs vacated overnight? The answers, true and false, would rock the town, the county and, finally, the state.
With the funds raised, I will travel to interview experts and witnesses to the events leading up to the original crime and to subsidize my writing.