Kerrville, Tex. (1973)
02/06/1973: Wife returned from work to find her husband, a
justice of the peace shot to death. When police went to inform his son, they
found the son and daughter-in-law also shot to death. Police were reluctant to
suggest a motive, but another local justice of the peace described this as a “grudge
killing.”
Category: family non-resident
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: firearm[1]
[1] "Triple
Murder In Texas Kills Judge, Couple," [Eau Claire, Wisc] Leader-Telegram, Feb. 06, 1973, 7.
I could find no other coverage about this obscure rural justice of the peace or his murder. A rather complex novel is waiting to be written about these three lives ended prematurely. Mafia? Philandering judge? Inherited oil well stolen in legal proceedings? It could be anything. There is a saying from Judaic thought that:
Therefore the man was created singly, to teach that he who destroys one soul of a human being, the Scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world, and him who saves one soul of Israel, the Scripture considers him as if he should save a whole world.
Trace back all the lives touched by this J.P., his son, daughter-in-law and their orphaned daughters. There is a universe of human living, suffering, joy, and meaning there.
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