The death of Elizabeth Lightfoot actually remains an unsolved mystery. She had gone out that evening and ended up with a strangely high BAC of 0.317 after leaving friends at Yourway Burger in Farmer's Branch ). But then went by a grocery store afterwards and bought Ramen noodles. Police investigated it as a homicide, but the ME's office surprised everyone by calling it an "accident" (for whatever that's worth.)
- Oh, my. The girl who was shot to death in her car in Irving, after finding a tracker on her vehicle a few days earlier, was a stripper at Rick's Cabaret near the airport. And the man arrested in connection with her death was a frequent customer.
- "A well-known Wichita Falls, Texas, man was arrested Wednesday on a tougher charge for an alleged road rage incident that occurred in 2020, court documents show . . . . Wise County District Attorney James Stainton of Decatur is the specially appointed prosecutor for McDaniel’s case."
- My one and only assistant is a huge Rolling Stones fan, and also has the worst luck.
- In 2016, she traveled to Las Vegas to see them only to have the concert cancelled at the last minute when Jagger contracted laryngitis.
- In 2019, she bought tickets to see them in New Orleans only to have the concert postponed due to a hurricane, and she couldn't make the new date.
- She bought tickets for the Stones in Dallas for their scheduled concert in May of 2020 but it got cancelled due to COVID.
- Tonight she has tickets for them at the Cotton Bowl with heavy rains predicted.
- I've buried the lede! The big story of the day is a UT special teams coach and his girlfriend's monkey. (The USA Today has some pretty funny coverage of this saga.) Here we go . . .
- From January:
- From last night:
- And, finally, here is the "Pole Assassin's" apparent confirmation that the little monkey at least did something (and then she deleted her Twitter account.)
- Just to recap, allegedly the Special Teams coach at Texas, who coached at Alabama, left his wife for a former stripper, who went by the name of Pole Assassin and had a pet monkey who she incorporated into her act, and then he, the coach, brought that former stripper and her monkey with him to Austin, where it, the monkey, bit a kid on Halloween in 2021.
- This all seems so 1950s.
- 34!? There was no way they were walking away from that gig and all the retirement benefits:
- The Anti-vax crowd used to be a very small fringe movement championed by Jenny McCarthy.
- There are a lot of things I don't understand about QAnon, but their infatuation with JFK Jr. being alive is right up there at the top of my list.
- Dak was announced to be a "full go" for Sunday's game, but he didn't look like it as he ran like an old man to catch up to Cooper Rush after the game.
- If you want to see how a small town Sheriff's Office can get in over their heads while trying to solve a murder and fall victim to tunnel vision about a particular suspect, watch the 45 minute stand-alone episode named "Joyride" in Season 2 of Netflix's Confession Tapes. It's crazy.
- I don't think Gary Patterson gets another high profile job.
The daughter of Aransas County Judge William Adams had videotaped the beating in 2004, but it went viral for some reason in 2011. The daughter then went on a weird publicity tour appearing on the national morning shows and later Dr. Phil. The judge failed to win re-election, losing in the Republican primary in 2014.
- The Texas Abortion Bounty Law is before the Supreme Court today. Kind of. The court will hear oral arguments on a complicated federal procedure question that no one I know understands -- including me. Roe v. Wade is not at issue. That comes next next month in another case out of Mississippi.
- Tarrant County prosecutors have quietly thrown in the towel after getting a hung jury in September in this Improper Relationship case. They dismissed it without comment on October 19th.
- Bridgeport will get a Whataburger after all. It will go just to the east of Brookshires.
- Hero?
- "Texas inmate on Death Row found dead" is just weird to write.
- A failed state senator who wants to be governor has pulled out the Trump playbook to explain his last election loss. (He has since deleted the tweet.)
- Fun pic circa 1980. The Cowboys headquarters and practice field were off Central Expressway with the Playboy Club right by it. And note the Expressway is two lanes each way with very little traffic. Click to enlarge.
- Lawyer mishap (story is behind paywall):
- Come on, that's a funny costume. Especially the addition of the dog which was allegedly left behind.
- I'm not sure I knew that Bridgeport High School had a Bass Team.
- Gary Patterson (shockingly) getting fired by TCU, but refusing to stay for the rest of the season when asked, seems like a very Gary Patterson thing to do. But I wouldn't do it either. Side note: Any chance his towel girl enters the Transfer Portal?
- Beating the Evil Empire must never go unmentioned.
- If you want to see a text book example of an illegal detention after the purpose of a traffic stop is over, here you go. This happens all the time.
- Weird fun facts.
- If Texas can block abortion by using civil lawsuits, why couldn't another state ban gun possession using the same tool?
I actually watched that moment from Game Six from the balcony shown in the picture I took below. I was in Las Vegas, and a show I had purchased tickets for months in advance was starting precisely at that very second. (Game Six was supposed to be played the night before but had been rained out.)
- There aren't many details on this story, but it's even more newsworthy because she posted a video of her finding what she thought was a "tracking device" on her car a few days before.
- Probably a smart move by the judge.
- Oklahoma resumed the use of its death penalty yesterday afternoon.
- It actual is pretty rare to see a death sentence handed out by a jury in Texas these days, but we had one yesterday. It as a bizarre case out of Smith County where a nurse injected four patients with air causing their deaths.
- There's a civil case going on in Virginia against the white supremist organizers of the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville. You know, the one where there "were very fine people, on both sides." A guy in the courtroom was live-tweeting the trial and fired this off when one of the defendants, who is representing himself, made his opening statement:
- Facebook, Inc. changing its name to Meta is not what people think. Facebook, the site and the app, will remain named as "Facebook." This is just like Google Inc. changing its name to Alphabet but keeping the name of the search engine as Google -- something that most people don't even remember happening in 2015.
- Because all the Wise County JPs were in some sort of training yesterday, Judge J.D. Clark ran out to the jail yesterday and set bonds for those newly arrested. Fun fact: Did you know that any mayor has that authority as well?
- A faithful reader sent me this link to a recent podcast of NPR's Planet Money as to why prescription drugs are advertised on TV.
- Here is a cool old pic of the old Rangers ballpark. That's Six Flags in the background and, I think, a water park named Seven Seas just to the ballpark's upper left. (That's a lot of parking, but how do you get to the lots once you go through the those ticket booths?)
- I'm beaten down by all the references to Ted Lasso because I've never seen it. Do that many people have Apple TV? The last announced number of subscribers is "under 20 million." Netflix, by comparison, has 74 million. (US and Canada numbers.) Anyway, Mitt Romney was screwing around yesterday posting re-creations, I guess, from the show.
- Have I ever mentioned they DPS has enough money to waste on gun boats?
- Lot of people perked up to my reference to the Candace Montgomery case yesterday. Here is the UPI story announcing the verdict in the case.
- Two Trump Insurrectionist wanted their sentencing to be done via Zoom instead of in person. The federal judge did a quick order via a docket entry yesterday evening:
- What are the chances for failure on this? It's too small for a music hall (only 1,000 capacity), they had to change the original name because of a "trademark issue", its opening was delayed by three months, and the first two acts cancelled. It's off I-35 in the Design District.
- In 1933, directories were available which would tell you where Supreme Court justices lived.
- Another discovery using genetic genealogy DNA.
- Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 849 days.
- Messenger: Above the Fold
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