William Overton Neal IV (January 31, 1936 – December 23, 2021) was an American defense attorney, historian and non-fiction writer. A comment editor of the Texas Law Review, he was best known for his non-fiction West Texas frontier books, published by the Texas Tech University Press.
Neal died in Abilene, Texas, on December 23, 2021, at the age of 85.
Books Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials (2006) From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West (2008) Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style (2009) Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders: The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired (2015)
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