Texas Confidential

Who Killed The Bookie's Wife?

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Even with all that information, there still wasn’t enough to tie Bob to his wife’s murder. And Bob was still insisting to police his brother was the killer. It took two months to find Roger; when police finally arrested him in Las Vegas, they found an audio tape in Roger’s briefcase.

On the tape was a conversation between two men planning Doris' murder.

"I think you ought to blow her away. Go out the front door and just blow her," a male voice on the tape could be heard saying.

"Boom, boom, boom. And then when she’s down, I go up to her and finish her off," a second male voice could be heard saying.

Everyone thought the voice of the trigger man was Roger's but it was the other voice that intrigued prosecutor Lyn McClellan.

McClellan was convinced it was Bob Angleton, the alleged brains behind the operation and the man who had pointed police toward Roger in the first place.

"You're waiting she comes in, alright? You hit her," the male said.

"Right," the second man replied.

"So that means you kill her and go," the man said.

"Right," the second male replied.

For McClellan, it wasn't just the speaker's voice that was convincing - it was the words he used.

The unidentified man talked about a dog. "I thought you decided you were gonna put her in a little cage?" the male said.

"What other hit man worries about what they’re gonna do with a dog?" asks McClellan. "The owner of the dog, Bob Angleton."

Also on the tape, the man could be heard saying he didn't want any fingers cut off.

"You said go for the diamond," the second man said.

"You don't have to cut the f****** finger to take the diamond," the other voice replied.

"You’re killing the woman. What do we care if we cut her finger off or not, but Bob didn’t want that," says prosecutor McClellan.

"She’ll have to tinkle, so she’ll go right in the bathroom by the door," the unknown voice said on the tape.

"Some hit man is not going to be telling Roger, 'Okay when she comes home, she always goes to the bathroom.' How would he know?" asks McClellan.

Asked if it is his voice on the recording, Bob maintains it is not.

The tape was all the police needed to arrest Bob for murder. And Lyn McClellan was prepared to offer his brother Roger, the trigger man, a very sweet deal.

The deal could have resulted in Roger walking out of jail a free man. All Roger had to do was testify against his brother Bob and describe their murder-for-hire plan. And for that, he would walk out of jail a free man.

McClellan says he expected Roger to accept the deal. But what McClellan didn't know - and neither did Bob - was that there were even more secret audio tapes. Roger had already started talking, and the listener, was all ears.