On November 5, 1968, Dorothy Smith, a White female motel owner in Monahans, Texas, was found murdered in her apartment. Her hands were bound with television cable, and she had been shot to death. This crime was part of a series of brutal murders that plagued the West Texas region between 1968 and 1971, often referred to as the "Odessa Lust Killings."
In December 1971, Johnny Meadows, a 34-year-old oilfield worker from Gladewater, Texas, was arrested in Aztec, New Mexico, on unrelated ch
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