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The Gun That Wasn't There by retired Texas police chief Russell S. Smith, with an introduction by Elmer Kelton, meticulously outlines the true story of rural West Texas communities under attack by an armed criminal in the 1960s. At times graphic, this vivid true crime story is an unusually perceptive assessment of the criminal mind as told with the surprising empathetic voice of both survivors and victims of crime. About the Author Russell Smith was born in Uvalde, Texas to parents Dick and June Smith. He started writing poems and short stories long before he graduated from high school in ...

Product Description No Reason to Kill, Russell S. Smith's second nonfiction book, revolves around a murder that some say robbed San Angelo, Texas of its innocence. Twenty-year-old Sheila Elrod was shot to death during a jewelry store robbery on February 12, 1980. Police officers collected evidence and detectives pursued anything that even looked like a lead, but it was 21 years before a persistent Texas Ranger and DNA technology would place a suspect behind bars. Noted author and newspaper columnist Ross McSwain wrote the introduction. About the Author Russell Smith was born in Uvalde, ...

One Policeman's Lights and Siren is a collection of events that occurred during a young policeman's career. The pages reveal why retired police chief Russell Smith became a policeman in the first place. The chapters let you travel through some of the most memorable events within his early police career. "Good read," wrote author and retired Chief Joe Gibson, "Lights and Siren will be of interest to officers as well as to those who have never carried a badge... Chief Smith's memories give us a rare look at the inside of an officer's experience and what it means." Educational, exciting, sad, ...