T. Cullen Davis
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Thomas Cullen Davis (born September 22, 1933) was the head of the Kendavis oil company.
He divorced his wife, Priscilla Davis, in 1974. Priscilla was shot and injured, while her boyfriend, Stan Farr, and her daughter, Andrea Wilborn, were shot dead on August 2, 1976 at Cullen's Fort Worth mansion.
Despite the statements of Priscilla and two other eyewitnesses, Cullen Davis was found not guilty of the murder of Andrea Wilborn. The children of Stan Farr later sued Davis for wrongful death and was awarded $250,000 in a settlement.
In 1978, Davis was arrested again, this time for allegedly hiring a hit man to murder the judge in his ongoing divorce litigation with Priscilla. Charged with attempted murder, Davis was again acquitted in November 1979.
According to Court TV's Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, Davis lost most of his oil fortune to pay his defense attorney, and was eventually forced to sell his mansion and declare bankruptcy. He became an evangelical Christian and today works as a missionary. Priscilla died of breast cancer in 2001.
A book was written on Cullen Davis by Mike Cochran, titled Texas vs. Davis, ISBN 0-451-17054-7. The case has also been profiled on Power, Privilege and Justice and on A&E's American Justice.
Davis was the subject of book "Texas Justice" by Gary Cartwright, which was made into a TV movie starring Peter Strauss as Cullen and Heather Locklear as Priscilla.
Billy Vickers, a man convicted of capital murder in an unrelated case, confessed to these murders during his last words. [1]
