Seeking information.
This is an excerpt from a story that E. R. Bills of the Fort Worth Weekly recently wrote. The 40-year-old driver is likely dead. However, the 24-year-old passenger may still be alive.
If you have information about these individuals, contact Texas Crime Stoppers at 1-800-252-8477. You could be eligible for a $3,000 reward. You can remain anonymous.
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The Fort Worth police reports are long gone, and the two suspects are no longer identified.
A routine traffic stop for a defective muffler on May 13, 1968, brought two men to the attention of Fort Worth patrolman Ken Adcock. The 40-year-old driver, a Fort Worth resident, was operating the vehicle with a suspended license. His passenger, 24, also a Fort Worth resident, was carrying a .22-caliber firearm. The driver fit the physical description provided by an almost month-old APB still circulating about a multiple homicide in South Texas. The APB was based on a description proffered by a 20-year-old service station attendant named Dave Lordon in Sonora, Texas.
The driver who aroused Adcock’s suspicions was around 6 feet tall and had recently, though inexpertly, dyed his hair black. The driver’s passenger wore footwear matching Lordon’s boot description. At the time of the traffic stop, the suspects were also in possession of several hundred Mexican pesos, a Mexican billfold and ID belonging to neither of the two men, an unused bus ticket from Waco to Laredo, and a baggage stub indicating where luggage had been checked in Waco and picked up in Laredo. The two men were taken into custody and placed in the Tarrant County jail.
It wasn’t an exact match, but Adcock’s intuition told him it approached a composite of the various parts. The two men were definitely suspicious, and after what happened to a young Tejano family, there was no reason to ignore the possibility.