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After months of investigating the August 1981 slaying of Carmen Croan, the Ector County Sheriff\u2019s Office was frustrated, particularly investigator David Saunders. After the bizarre kidnapping of an Odessa man, though, a suspect \u2013 a good suspect \u2013 fell into the department\u2019s lap. After investigating the man and collecting evidence against him quietly and without informing the press, District Attorney Mike Holmes was ready to ask a grand jury for an indictment in December of 81. They got their indictment but court appointed defense attorneys for the suspect fought the charges hard, collecting a celebrity forensic expert who\u2019d testified at Ted Bundy\u2019s trial and a rockstar psychologist who\u2019d given police in Georgia a psych profile for the Atlanta Child Murderer. After a slew of postponements, the suspect in Carmen\u2019s mutilation murder walked for that charge...and that was after another person of interest, a potential accomplice, was killed in a what was deemed a freak accident.

For more information and updates on Carmen\u2019s case, visit author KE Crosby\u2019s page https://www.facebook.com/ViolatedJusticeforCarmen

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