Trials and True Crime
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
Award-winning author Carlton Sowers published Careless Whispers in 1986. In this work of fiction, Sowers highlights Truman Simons as the hero of the murder investigation. The book won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
Lake Waco Murders
On a muggy, Texas summer night in 1982, tragedy struck. Three Waxahachie teenagers—Raylene Rice, Jill Montgomery, and Kenneth Franks—were murdered in Speegleville Park, near Lake Waco, on July thirteenth. In the following months, a complex criminal…