Texas Killing Fields: A League City Criminal Lawyer Reflects on a Case That Haunted Galveston County for Decades
By Tad Nelson – League City Board Certified Criminal Defense Lawyer and proud lifetime Galveston County resident Criminal law is not just something I do. It has been my life’s work. I have spent my entire legal career in Galveston County , and for roughly thirty years, I have carried Board Certification in Criminal Law. I am also a lawyer-scientist, with a background that has taught me to look hard at evidence, to respect the difference between suspicion and proof, and to understand that in serious criminal cases, the truth does not reveal itself just because we want it to. It has to be developed, tested, challenged, and proven. Around here, on this stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast, there is no case that better captures that reality than the Texas Killing Fields . I am a League City criminal lawyer , but before that, I was a kid growing up in this community, then a young prosecutor in Galveston County, and then a longtime defense lawyer whose entire career has unfolded in the ...