Please stay tuned to the end of this episode for a trailer for a new podcast we're thrilled about,

the True Crime Files.

You're probably already familiar with our friend Christine's website the true crime files

dot com and with the help of Scott Fuller from the podcast's frozen truth and status pending.

She'll begin releasing the cases covered on the website in podcast form.

Now on to the episode.

The Gone Cold Podcasts making Now on to the episode.

The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised. Oh, Prior to 1881, Pecos was little more than a far west Texas camp for weary cattle drivers.

But when George A Knight enticed the Texas and Pacific railroads to build tracks through the section

of land he owned there, by gifting them a significant portion of the land, Peko's station was born, and not long after that a school was built,

followed by several small businesses and a post office.

It was, indeed, a sleepy town at first, but by 1890, by at this point, simply known

as Pekos, it became a place of lawlessness and outlaws.

That lawlessness, no doubt, abetted by the town's former saloon operating deputy sheriff and Pekos Marshall, James Brown Miller, known as Deacon Jim for his

aversion to booze and his church going, but also known as Killin Jim and Killer Miller for his inclination to settle matters of the law and personal disputes with a firearm and who upon moving to Fort Worth in 1900 advertised as and performed the duties

of a professional assassin.

Pecos is inevitably tied to the infamy. assassin. of the rodeo, dubbing itself home of the world's first rodeo, since it claimed that in

1883 several cowboys drinking at Red Newell's saloon there began a boasting contest about

roping steer and busting broncos. Instead of a shootout luckily local ranchers decided to put up prize money as an incentive for the competition to go past the drunken egos of the Cowboys and into the form of an event and the rodeo as it's known today

proud locals claim was born

Pecos remained quaint and quiet, virtually unknown to the rest of the nation and even the big cities of Texas, until 1962, when it was discovered that for years, Pekos resident Billy Saul Estes, had been successfully

ripping off farmers and the government through land mortgage and agricultural fraud,

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