Terror on Highway 59 Author:Steve Sellers Terror on Highway 59 is the startling story of an intrepid reporter's 19 month investigation conducted for the Austin American-Statesman. Steve Sellers' tireless efforts to persuade his newspaper to keep him on the story, and his dangerous forays - often alone - into a remote county amid the tall pines of East Texas have resulted in separate pr... more »obes by the FBI, the Texas Rangers, the Texas Dept. of Public Safety and the Texas Comptroller's office.
This is the story that put a crooked Texas sheriff in jail. An assistant US attorney called it "highway robber." an ACLU lawyer called it "a monstrosity of justice." A young sheriff's deputy said simply it was "scary what we did."« less