One of the most notorious criminal cases in Texas history revolves around the murder of a Forth Worth family in 1976. Although the crime took place nearly three decades ago, details of the account are continuously written and published. One of the survivors of the incident, Pricilla Davis, recently passed away from cancer, which has caused a flurry of reports to surface again.
According to the author Mark Gribben (2001), the first victim of the ruthless home invasion was pre-teen Andrea Wilborn. Andrea ad been home alone on her 180- acre estate while her mother Priscilla Davis and her boyfriend, former Texas Christian University basketball star, Stan Farr, were out celebrating her long-lived divorce battle from T. Cullen Davis. Investigators are unsure what the final moments of Andrea’s life entailed except that she had died a cruel and violent death in the basement of her family’s mansion. Experts state that Andrea had either been dragged down by force or had been led by someone she knew (Gribben, 2001). Reports state that the gunman had shot Andrea in the back of the head, execution style. It is believed that the gunman was actually after Priscilla and Stan since Andrea usually lived with her father elsewhere. When Priscilla and Stan return home, they notice that something was wrong when the mansion’s alarm system had ben deactivated. However, they assumed that Priscilla’s older daughter, Dee, might have come, as was expected. When they enter the home, Priscilla notices the light leading to the basement was lit and saw a bloody handprint (Gribben, 2001). Before she could do anything, the gunman jumped in front of her, coldly said “hi”, and proceeded to shoot her in the chest (Gribben, 2001). When Stan found Priscilla, the gunma...
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...other hand, Priscilla died in 2001 from breast cancer and had lived a relatively quiet life until then. The mansion today has been converted from a house to a venue where weddings and events can be taken place in.
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