To Hatred Turned by Ken Englade

Author:Ken Englade [Englade, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626815032
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Like Mulder, Mike Wilson had once been a rising star in the Dallas District Attorney’s Office. But his reputation had never shone as brightly and he burned out a lot quicker.

In the early days of his broken six-year career as a prosecutor, Wilson had been assigned more than his share of high-profile cases. Among those he prosecuted was a well-known madam named Sherry Blanchard, who kept a diary listing the names of prominent Dallasites who had been her clients. Her trial had created a media orgy, and Wilson reveled in the publicity. He also handled the case involving the infamous movie entitled Debbie Does Dallas, which was something of a classic in the hard-core porn era of popular entertainment.

A sandy-haired, cherubic-looking extrovert with a sharp sense of humor and a born-comedian’s instinct for the absurd, Wilson grew up in Winnsboro, a tiny oil town in East Texas, a town, Wilson liked to quip, that was so small its residents had to take turns being the village idiot. He was the quarterback on the high school football team and a recognized leader among his peers. Early on, it was apparent that he was going to leave Winnsboro behind and move on to bigger and better things. If he lived long enough, that is. Along with his budding talents, the young Wilson also proved to be something of a magnet for tragedy, a trait he carried with him at least into middle age.

When he was in high school, he and several friends were out Christmas caroling when he was run over by a hay wagon. The accident almost killed him. He eventually recovered, but for eight months he had to wear a colostomy bag as a result of the internal injuries. Then, when he was a sophomore at the University of Texas in Austin, he was out waterskiing with his first wife-to-be, a Fort Worth socialite named Lucy Brants, when he was bitten by a water moccasin. If a friend with whom they were double dating had not been along to rush him to a hospital, Wilson might have died then, too.

In 1965, while still a student at UT, Wilson married Brants and they eventually had three sons. But in 1969, after graduating from UT, he became worried that he was going to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. One way he might postpone his induction, he figured, was to stay in school. A friend of his had enrolled in law school at SMU and Wilson reckoned that sounded like a good idea.

In the spring of his last year of law school, 1971, he was impressed by an assistant district attorney who had come to speak to his class, so impressed, in fact, that he applied for a job with the DA’s office as soon as he graduated. Already working in the office at the time was another SMU graduate named Doug Mulder.

As excited as he had been to adopt the title of prosecutor, Wilson soon became disillusioned by what he considered the slow progress of his career as an ADA.

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