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Here today's story that's hittin' the perversely interesting zone with me:
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Inmate Claims Murders During His Execution
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -
Time finally ran out for condemned killer Billy Frank Vickers, but as he went to his death he left behind an unexpected disclosure he may have been involved in more than a dozen murder cases, including the Cullen Davis case.
"I would like to clear some things up if I could," Vickers, 58, said strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney Wednesday night in the moments before he received lethal injection for the slaying of a grocery store owner in Lamar County in March 1993.
He acknowledged that fatal shooting during a botched robbery, reversing his previous denials, adding: "There was several more that I had done or had a part of. I am sorry and I am not sure how many - there must be a dozen or 14 I believe all total.
"One I would like to clear up is Cullen Davis, where he was charged with shooting his wife. He didn't do that. And all of these it was never nothing personal. It was just something I did to make a living."
He didn't elaborate.
In 1976, millionaire oilman Davis was accused of killing his estranged wife's boyfriend, Stan Farr, and 12-year-old daughter, Andrea Wilborn, at his Fort Worth mansion. The wife, Priscilla Davis, and a family friend were wounded.
Cullen Davis was acquitted of his stepdaughter's murder and was later acquitted of murder-for-hire charges in a separate case.
Jack Strickland, a former prosecutor who worked on the Davis case, said Wednesday night that he had never heard of Vickers and doubted that he was involved in the 1976 shooting.
"For some perverse reason known only to him (Vickers), he once again screwed with the system. I certainly don't put any stock in it, not the slightest bit," Strickland said.
At the time, Davis was worth an estimated $400 million and believed to be the richest man to stand trial on murder charges.
Vickers wrapped up his final comments by repeating he was sorry and that, "I love you all. That is all I have to say."
Six minutes later, after exhaling and gasping as the lethal drugs took effect, he was pronounced dead. He was the fourth Texas prisoner put to death already this year. Another four are set to die next month.
The execution began less than 30 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal to halt his punishment for gunning down the grocer, Phillip Kinslow, 50, near Kinslow's home outside Arthur City on March 12, 1993.
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The sentences that are gonna stick with me are these:
"And all of these it was never nothing personal. It was just something I did to make a living."
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