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2 months ago

The murdered Irish priest, the gay Native American and the film correcting 40 years of injustice

West Texas cops knew, in 1981, that just about anything could happen at the Sand and Sage Motel in Odessa. An oil boom that year had brought droves of fortune seekers, almost all of them men, ambitious, but some of them hungry for trouble. Roughnecks and wildcatters drank and fought when they weren't deep in the dangerous oil fields and by 1982, Odessa had become the murder capital of the United States.
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