Looking for evidence of endemic corruption in Uvalde, Texas and other towns on the road to Monterrey.

Uvalde, Texas – Population 15,217

The information coming out the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022 is raising many questions about the city’s police department. The Uvalde police “stood buy” while the rampaged through the school shooting children and teachers. The Uvalde Police are not cooperating with State investigators according to Legacy Media reports. The Police Chief did not have a radio. The Police spokesman said a teacher propped open a door that was supposed to be locked and then had to revise those comments. The Uvalde Police Department looks “dirty.”

Dirty Town, USA

“There are 17,985 police agencies in the United States which include city police departments, county sheriff’s offices, state police/highway patrol and federal law enforcement agencies.” Wikipedia

When there is corruption in large metropolitan police departments, it makes the news. Smaller police departments not so much. Police corruption in small towns, we would argue, are likely an extension of a corrupt or weak local government that allow criminals to commit crimes unimpeded. We are not thinking about dime-bag dealers or small-time bath-tub meth makers who do not have the money to bribe chiefs and mayors, we are thinking of organized crime syndicates.

The organized crime syndicates might be an arm of the original “Mafia”, or a local syndicate of drug wholesalers that are sufficiently organized to protect their geographic franchise and racket from competition and the law. Jacob and Darlene Snell, the local heroin producers in the Netflix Series “Ozark”, are probably good examples of a local syndicate that has the type of money to keep the local sheriff from asking too many questions.

There are plenty of real world examples of corrupt small-town police departments. The Mena, Arkansas police had to be on the take to not notice cocaine drops from low flying planes in the middle of the night. Crystal City, Texas (population 6,354) had eleven of its officials indicted in 1976 and in 2016….

“…almost every top official of the city was arrested under a federal indictment accusing them of taking bribes from contractors and providing city workers to assist an illegal gambling operator, Ngoc Tri Nguyen.” (Crystal City is a 40 minute drive south of US-83 from Uvalde.)

The point is that small towns have organized crime rings and those rings corrupt police and officials, just like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Uvalde Checks a Few Boxes

When we want to quickly figure out if a small town is “dirty” we do a search for the name of the town in the Mary Ferrell Foundation Archives at www.maryferrell.org.

The archives are a collection of all public JFK Assassination documents, as well as documents from the RFK and MLK assassinations and other Deep State sponsored skullduggery.

The broad heuristic we use is, if there is a history of organized criminality in a small Texas town, it will likely show up in the JFK Assassination files.   

The maryferrell.org archives are comprised of “Pages”, “Essays”, “Reports”, “Documents”, “Books”, “Journals”, and a few other categories.

The “Documents” category mostly contains the raw investigative files produced by the FBI, CIA and other Federal and State agencies. The search term “Uvalde” produces One “Report” hit, three “Journal” hits, 31 “Document” hits, and 31 page hits in “Books”. The most relevant, or interesting, search returns include:

FBI questions Ralph S. Mitchell about Jack Ruby.

Ralph S. Mitchell was an owner of the Mitchell Brothers Ranch, which used a mailing address in Uvalde. Mitchell received mail at a post office box in Bandera, Texas,  which is an hour and 20 minute drive from Uvalde.

The FBI asked Mitchell if he knew Jack Ruby and Mitchell told the FBI that he knew Ruby peripherally. The FBI’s interest in Ruby pertained to his possible involvement in an illegal gambling ring in Bandera.

As mentioned, Crystal City, Texas also seemed to have an illegal gambling problem.

James Earl Ray possibly in Uvalde.

The Martin Luther King files contain an FBI letter that says James Earl Ray was witnessed making a call from a phone booth in Uvalde on December 16, 1967. (MLK was killed April 4, 1968.)

Dan Rather in Uvalde.

JFK Assassination researchers are generally suspicious of Dan Rather’s recollections of what happened on November 22, 1963. Most notably, Dan Rather’s report, that JFK “went forward with considerable violence,” was shown to be wrong when the Zapruder film was first shown to the public in 1970. (The earliest release was Underground News with Chuck Collins. The film was first shown on network TV in 1975, on the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera.)

A list of questions that researchers believe Dan Rather never really answered is referenced below. Given the view that Dan Rather probably knows more about the JFK Assassination than he has said publicly, his trip to Uvalde, Texas on the morning of the murder of the President has raised a few eye-brows.

According to Dan himself, in the 1977 hardcover edition of his book “The Camera Never Blinks”, he flew to Uvalde for an after-breakfast meeting with former Vice President John Nance Garner (first V.P. under Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1941) and then flew back to Dallas. In the 1978 paperback, it says he flew to Dallas from New Orleans after his interview with Vice President Garner. If Dan flew from Dallas to Uvalde and back on the morning of the Assassination, a 600 mile round trip, the time in the air would have been at least three hours if he was in a very fast piston plane. (New Orleans would have been an even longer flight.)

That the visit to Uvalde, Texas was removed from later versions of the Rather book only makes the Texas Town more interesting.

Surrounding Towns

We have run across other small Texas towns before in the area south of San Antonio, Texas. The most notable is Cotulla,  which about an hour an 15 minute drive from Uvalde. Cotulla is where Jeff Bezos’ grandfather, L.P. Gise had his ranch. It’s also in the heart of Texas, Uranium country. (That L.P. Gise was a Senior Director at the Atomic Energy Commission has not gone unnoticed.)

One of our most frustrating mysteries involves Monterrey, Mexico. Monterrey is one of Mexico’s largest and most important industrial cities. It is the last stop in Mexico for commercial goods heading to North America and the first stop for U.S. Exports heading south.

The mystery involves the ancestry of a relative of Richard Bissell, the CIA Director of Plans who was fired by Kennedy after the failed Bay-of-Pigs invasion. To keep this short, the Bissell’s brother-in-law, Hector C. Prud’homme, had a father named Hector P. Prud’homme.

Hector P. Prud’homme was married to a woman from Monterrey, whose last name may have been “Peart”, like the drummer from Rush. We are curious as to how or why the Pearts ended up in Monterrey near the start of the 20th Century. That much of the genealogical information seems to be missing makes us more curious, but that is another rabbit hole.

Questions for Dan Rather.