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The fast living of the Texas rich is the focal point of this true crime story about the murder trials of a multimillionaire oilman acquitted of the murder of his daughter and his wife's lover
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Blood Will Tell is the Fort Worth version of Blood and Money.
In fact, the accused killer, T. Cullen Davis, the middle son of prominent oil and gas multi-millionaire “Stinky” Davis, went to high school with Tommy Thompson and had read his book.
So when Cullen was in a frustratingly long divorce battle with his wife Priscilla, a buxom blonde bombshell who was everything the oil and cowtown society hated—sexy, flashy, vulgar, and obviously after Cullen’s cash—Cullen supposedly tried to off her.
Priscilla was merely wounded, but her boyfriend and her 12-year-old daughter were killed.
Over the course of two…
From Suzy's list on money-loving, murdering Texans.
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