Talk:Billie Sol Estes

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Billie Sol Estes is a convicted swindler who did great damage to many banks and individual investors (not to mention US taxpayers) during the early sixties. He always had a flair for publicity and self-promotion, and did attempt to purchase political influence through campaign contributions to LBJ but there is zero evidence of bribery or that LBJ was involved in any conspiracy to murder witnesses in the Estes trial. I've rewritten the article (and did some additional research) to place its focus on the documented record. Wyss 83.115.7.118 01:47, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merge "Billy" Sol Estes

Yep. (Billie is the correct spelling) However, some of the information in the Billy version is both incorrect and unencyclopedic, I'll fix that. Wyss 14:28, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suspicious deaths

This paragraph: "On June 3, 1961, Estes' local contact at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Henry Marshall, was found dead in his car with five gunshot wounds on a remote part of his own ranch. Justice of the Peace Lee Farmer attributed Marshall's death to carbon monoxide poisoning brought about from a hose attached to the exhaust pipe of his car." has a number of discrepancies relatively to the account in Time magazine [[1]]:

- Henry Marshall was investigating Estes, he was not his "contact";

- The cause of death was attributed to the gun wounds (which were initially ruled to be self-inflected), not carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide was found in the later autopsy.

It seems that there was here a mix-up between the two deaths (Henry Marshall and Estes' accountant, George Krutilek). Rps (talk) 11:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)