Look before you leap

Every week it seems that I meet a new lawyer who has moved to Kerrville from Houston. I did it 10 years ago, and I found out pretty quickly that there is a whole world that you won't read about in the Chamber of Commerce crap. Here are a few things I'll write about in coming posts. - The Kerrville Slave Ranch - see my other blog, "Judges and Lawyers Hall of Shame by Richard Ellison," where I've discussed this in some detail. A family of Deliverance type inbreds picked up hitchhikers and enslaved them, torturing them when they complained or didn't work hard enough. Here's a picture of the family patriarch, pointing a gun at a young couple getting married in his house. Sort of a play on shotgun wedding? 13th Floor Elevators The original acid rock band. Several of the members were "Kerrverts," and hid out here from the law. They liked it because there was a steady, well established drug pipeline into Kerrville. Genene Jones - pediatric nurse, serial killer of babies. More rehab clinics and halfway houses than any other county in Texas Addicts come from all over the country, get out, and decide to stay. Many relapse. Always a ready market for the drug dealers.