Can you imagine the pain and anguish these families are going through after waiting 24 years to receive some sort of justice for their loved ones. It reminds me of the old saying: Justice delayed is justice denied.
One by one, relatives of five victims of one of Texas’ most infamous and longest-unsolved mass murders sat in a courtroom witness chair to relive the worst day of their lives and identify a large photograph of their murdered loved ones.
“Monte on his prom night,” Linda Lee said through tears, describing a picture of her son in a tuxedo.
“That’s my family,” Jack Hughes said, his voice choking, as he described a family portrait that included his wife, Opie.
Opie Hughes, 39, and Monte Landers, 19, were among five people robbed, abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Kilgore almost a quarter-century ago and then shot execution-style in a remote field about 15 miles away in Rusk County in East Texas.
The first of two men charged with all five slayings, convicted burglar Romeo Pinkerton, went on trial Monday. A conviction in the long-stalled case could get him a death sentence. The case is being tried in Bowie County, almost 100 miles away, because of publicity in the Kilgore area. One by one, relatives of five victims of one of Texas’ most infamous and longest-unsolved mass murders sat in a courtroom witness chair to relive the worst day of their lives and identify a large photograph of their murdered loved ones.
“Monte on his prom night,” Linda Lee said through tears, describing a picture of her son in a tuxedo.
“That’s my family,” Jack Hughes said, his voice choking, as he described a family portrait that included his wife, Opie.
Opie Hughes, 39, and Monte Landers, 19, were among five people robbed, abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Kilgore almost a quarter-century ago and then shot execution-style in a remote field about 15 miles away in Rusk County in East Texas.
The first of two men charged with all five slayings, convicted burglar Romeo Pinkerton, went on trial Monday. A conviction in the long-stalled case could get him a death sentence. The case is being tried in Bowie County, almost 100 miles away, because of publicity in the Kilgore area.
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