DESCRIPTION:
On this episode of They Walk Among America… Trapped on a vast isolated ranch with nothing and no one else for miles and miles around, deprived of sleep, food and viciously beaten after a grueling workday. Will the victims survive the place known as The Texas Slave Ranch?…
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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.
This episode was researched and written by Emily G. Thompson and Eileen Macfarlane.
Editing by Brad Maybe.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.
Narration, narration editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
MUSIC:
Call To Battle by Louis Lion
The Part Where It Begins by Stephen Keech
Sleep by Stephen Keech
Darkest Space by Lost Ghosts
Within The Void by Hill
Lights Out by Tru Genesis
System Failure by Wicked Cinema
The Ritual by Wicked Cinema
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REFERENCES:
COURT DOCUMENTS
State of Texas v. Walter Wesley Ellebracht, Sr., Walter Wesley Ellebracht, Jr., Carlton Robert Caldwell, et al.
Ellebracht, Jr., Walter Wesley v. Texas, The State of Appeal from 198th Judicial District Court of Kerr County, July 25, 1990, Docket Number: 04-86-00512-CR
NEWS ARCHIVE / NEWSBANK
Miami Herald, The (FL), April 8, 1984
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA), April 8, 1984
UPI (USA), April 12, 1984
Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA), April 13, 1984
UPI (USA), April 13, 1984
UPI (USA), April 15, 1984
UPI (USA), April 19, 1984
UPI (USA), July 7, 1984
The Dallas Morning News, August 18, 1984
UPI (USA), December 19, 1984
UPI (USA), April 29, 1986
Houston Chronicle, April 30, 1986
UPI (USA), April 30, 1986
UPI (USA), May 10, 1986
UPI (USA), May 11, 1986
UPI (USA), May 12, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 13, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 14, 1986
UPI (USA), May 14, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 15, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, May 15, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 16, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 17, 1986
UPI (USA), May 17, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, May 19, 1986
UPI (USA), May 19, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 20, 1986
UPI (USA), May 20, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 21, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 22, 1986
UPI (USA), May 22, 1986
UPI (USA), May 24, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 28, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, May 28, 1986
UPI (USA), May 28, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 30, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, May 30, 1986
UPI (USA), May 30, 1986
Houston Chronicle, May 31, 1986
Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA), June 1, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 1, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 1, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 2, 1986
UPI (USA), June 2, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 3, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 3, 1986
UPI (USA), June 3, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 4, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 4, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 5, 1986: 17
The Dallas Morning News, June 5, 1986
UPI (USA), June 5, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 6, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 7, 1986
UPI (USA), June 7, 1986
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, June 8, 1986
UPI (USA), June 8, 1986
UPI (USA), June 11, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 12, 1986
Sun-Sentinel, June 12, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 13, 1986
UPI (USA), June 13, 1986
UPI (USA), June 15, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 17, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 17, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 18, 1986
Miami Herald, The (FL), June 18, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 18, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 19, 1986
UPI (USA), June 19, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 20, 1986
UPI (USA), June 21, 1986
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA), June 23, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 23, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 24, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 25, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 26, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 26, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 27, 1986
Houston Chronicle, June 28, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 2, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 3, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 4, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 4, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 8, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 9, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 10, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 14, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 15, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 15, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 16, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 16, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 17, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 17, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 18, 1986
Houston Chronicle, July 19, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, July 20, 1986: 35
Houston Chronicle, July 21, 1986
The Dallas Morning News, June 10, 1988
Houston Chronicle, December 19, 1990
The Dallas Morning News, December 19, 1990: 41
San Antonio Express-News, August 11, 1997
San Antonio Express-News (TX), January 22, 2013
Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post (TX), January 23, 2013
San Antonio Express-News (TX), February 3, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES
www.nytimes.com/1986/07/19/us/three-are-sentenced-in-texas-torture-case.html
www.nytimes.com/1986/07/20/us/three-given-terms-of-up-to-15-years-in-texas-torturings.html
www.nytimes.com/1986/07/16/us/around-the-nation-deliberations-continue-in-texas-drifter-s-death.html
www.nytimes.com/1986/07/18/us/around-the-nation-life-sentences-an-option-in-texas-slavery-case.html
www.nytimes.com/1984/04/13/us/murder-charged-in-drifter-death.html
www.nytimes.com/1986/05/13/us/witness-in-slavery-trial-describes-threats-to-life.html
www.nytimes.com/1984/04/14/us/six-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-drifter-on-texas-ranch.html
FURTHER RESOURCES
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/07/23/relive-the-horrifying-story-of-the-texas-slave-ranch/
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19840413.2.37&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
Texas Monthly, Aug, 1986, pg 84 - https://books.google.ie/books?id=XSwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA84
Texas Monthly, Jan 1987, pg 89 - https://books.google.ie/books?id=SyoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA89
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/12/Court-records-tell-story-of-torture-death-at-slave-ranch/7325450594000/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/19/Brainwashing-alleged-at-slave-ranch/8484451198800/
http://texaswelcomesfriends.com/texas-Fun/texas-Fun_Highways/texas-Fun_Highways_i10.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208613961/walter-wesley-ellebracht
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-Slave-Ranch-offspring-made-the-best-of-4246636.php
BOOKS
‘The True Story of the Texas Slave Ranch - How a Degenerate Ranching Family Got Away With Murder’ by Richard L Ellison