Talk:Texas Slave Ranch

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I have some knowledge of the goings on of this incident and have several points where I'd like to make inquiries as to how jeffella (i assume he is a relative of the ellabracht clan)came to some of these conclusions. To my knowledge Walter Ellabracht Jr. returned to prison to serve out at least part of a 15 year sentence for kidnapping. Also, as I remember it, both Walter Sr & Jr were accused, though acquitted due primarily to a lack of evidence and a jury that didn't understand what premeditation means. From my experience the Ellabracht men were uniformly repulsive in word and deed. According to Walter Jr, Bates was driven from the ranch and dropped off, though other ranch hands apparently believed he had been slain prompting some ranch hands to seek police intervention. [9/17/07 -- Beerman5000]

Anthony Warren Bates was my uncle...
Not only did they find the remains of my uncle on the ranch (little was left; ash and bone), his remains would not be released to my grandmother until she agreed to not sue the state of texas for the disgusting way she was treated, and the way in which his murderers were set free with a slap on the wrist. I was only 2 years old when my uncle was murdered, andwe did not recieve his remains until i was a teenager. All but one piece of bone was burried with her (my grandmother) when she died in june of 04. I have that piece of bone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.165.53 (talk) 11:32, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry for your loss. Your uncle deserved justice.  I never met a person as depraved as those two men.  I'm very sorry for your loss he will never be forgotten. Beerman5000 (talk)

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I met Trevor Boyd, one of the victims, back in 1990 when I was travelling through Montana and Wyoming. Trevor related a fantastic story, which I only half-believed about being picked up hitch-hiking, and later finding his life in jepoardy. He told me about fellow victims killed with a sledgehammer, shocked with prods on the neck and how he escaped and eventually testified in court. He also tried to get a civil settlement against Ellabracht family, but was unsuccessful. He said that some of the workers had their wives lives threatened, by the story that sticks with me is the murder by sledgehammer. Are the Ellabracht's free or in jail? One article I read suggested they all went free due to a famous attourney's efforts on the case.Jheld67 (talk) 21:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * They mostly got off. Jr did a few years but I don't know exactly how long. Beerman5000 (talk)
 * As of a couple of years ago, both Jr. and Sr. are dead. I know this because they had a house in Lago Vista, TX, that was part of their estate and a realtor needed to make it ready to sell. I assisted in that. 173.174.85.204 (talk) 17:20, 17 July 2017 (UTC) Eric
 * That is to the best of my knowledge only partially correct. W.E. The 1st & W.E. the 3rd (who was a young boy at the time of the Bates murder) are dead. I believe W.E. the 2nd the adult son of Sr. & the one that took a personal hand in the torture of Bates, is still alive.

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I edited the page again because there was some obvious vanadalism which looked to me like exactly the kind of thing that the accused would have found funny. I don't know if it was random vandalism or the act of one of one of the accused, but this case wasn't just some kind of joke or urban legend so there's no place for making up crap about hundreds of deaths. That is in poor taste considering that at least one man has died wrongfully. Beerman5000 (talk)