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Kaufman officers helped arrest 34 alleged members. Many of the gangsters have reason to hold a vendetta against county officials.

Miss Fernandez led the prosecution last year of James "Wreck" Crawford, a burly Aryan Brotherhood "enforcer" sentenced to two life terms by a jury in the county. He was captured after a shoot-out with a wayward gang member who was being punished for not attending regular meetings, known as "church".

"I'm just ecstatic about the sentences," Mr McLelland said at the time. "It shows that those people can't come down here and run roughshod over folks in Kaufman county."

In the west of the county, affluent middle-class commuter territory provides a comfortable refuge from the urban sprawl of Dallas. It was here that the McLellands lived on their one-acre property in Forney, a town known as the "antique capital" of Texas.

But heading east along Interstate 20, the county becomes more rural, poorer and predominantly white. Typical of many Southern towns, the main war memorial outside the Kaufman courthouse honours the Confederate soldiers who fought in the 1861-65 Civil War. "There are still a lot of racists in this county," said Cliff Hutcheson, a neighbour of the dead couple. "It's not as bad as it used to be, but some of these folks are raised from birth with these views."

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Horse with no Name

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2. and an hour up the road today...

Reply to warrior1 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 2, 2013, 05:26 PM

Apr 2013

there was a jailbreak. One of the escapees is charged with Capital Murder and is already considered armed and dangerous.

Our schools were on lockdown today.

Everyone is a tad nervous up here.