so disturbing...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5432288.html

[This message has been edited by SlowLane (edited 1/7/2008 2:12p).]

Page doesn't work so I'm assuming you're talking about the cannibal murder. Tyler does have a lot skeletons in its closet.

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080107/NEWS08/363817006

[This message has been edited by High Life (edited 1/7/2008 2:10p).]

fixed, yes, yes it does

I read that in the Lufkin Daily News today. Sounds like he did lots of crazy stuff before he decided to cannibalize her. Told his mom to look at what he had done,too sick for words.

What other crazy stuff has happened?

I watched 'Cold Case' on A&E a couple years ago about a missing boy whose bones were being delivered to victims family one piece at a time. (This was in Tyler) They finally found the muderer - he was already in prison for another murder(i believe) and his partner in crime was mailing or delivering the body parts as he directed. The body of the boy was found in a backyard in Tyler.

[This message has been edited by schrade (edited 1/9/2008 3:45p).]

Damn, my city is rough.

Remember the courthouse gunman a couple of years ago that made national news. That was crazy s**t for sure.

the cops shot and killed a guy at the apartment complex i lived at in tyler about five years ago. go read the book smith county justice or the christmas day murders (written by sheriff j.b. smith), they are full of stories about some of the crazy stuff that has happened in tyler.

The preacher killing his wife and blaming it on a burglar and then found on t.u. tyler campus trying to kill himself while on bail. The Barnes & Noble shooting. Last but not least, Jack King Jr.

[This message has been edited by High Life (edited 1/14/2008 8:54a).]

props for Jack King Jr.

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Somebody correct me if this is wrong, but doesn't he own the strip club on 155 south of Tyler?

I heard that Titantic Thompson was held up several years ago, after a high-stakes poker game, at Willow Brook Country Club. To appropriate words of a Jimmy Rogers song, "he quickly smoked him down." Tyler has a history that is interesting; that touches and even encompasses personalities of regional, national and even international repute, even unto this hour. So there.