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Michael Hall
@mikehalltexas
Executive Editor at Texas Monthly. Singer, songwriter, guitar player in Wild Seeds, Woodpeckers, the Savage Trip, the Soul Bashers.
Feb 3, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
40 years ago, a gay Apache Indian named James Reyos was convicted of killing an Irish Catholic priest named Patrick Ryan in a seedy Odessa motel room—even though Reyos had an airtight alibi & there was zero evidence he had been at the crime scene. 1/ What nailed him: a drunken confession he made 11 months after the murder and immediately recanted. Why did he confess to something he didn’t do? It’s complicated --you’ll have to read the story! 2/
May 24, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
On the day before the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, I want to tell y’all a story about three other young black men from Texas who were killed in law enforcement custody--40 years ago, on a small lake near the tiny town of Mexia. 1/ The three were teenagers. Anthony Freeman, known by everyone as Re-Run, was a piano player and the only son of strict, church-going parents. 2/