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Widow recalls deadly arson case and two Texas killers
Mrs. Trammell, widow of a murdered husband in Corpus Christi, testified in trials that led Jerry Bird to death row and Emmett Korges to life imprisonment. She endured arrest, a stroke, and trauma, but remains obsessed with justice as she reflects on the killers and the slow appeals in Texas death penalty cases.
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Jerry Joe Bird
Corpus Christi
State Penitentiary
Emmett Leroy Korges
Texas
Trammell
Bird
Korges
Trammells
Harlingen
California