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The Lester Bower Case

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Sunday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, "Witness says condemned Arlington man isn't responsible for 1983 slayings," by Tim Madigan.Just a few paragraphs into the Star-Telegram story, the woman knew something was terribly wrong. A man named Lester Leroy Bower Jr. was on Death Row for the 1983 massacre of four men in a Sherman airplane hangar, she read that morning in 1989. But the woman, who asked to be identified by the pseudonym "Pearl," had reason to believe that Bower wasn?t the killer at all ? that it was her ex-boyfriend and three others who had committed the crime. The woman showed the story to her sister, the one person she had told of her suspicions about the old boyfriend. "They?re going to put that guy to death for that," she remembers her sister saying...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).