Dead Man Walking

In 2004, a woman living in Nashville, Tennessee, was sitting up in her bed one night trying to get some homework done for a Bible study class. As she sat there, she started to feel tired and so she decided to call it a night. She bookmarked the page she was one and leaned over to put her Bible on the bed side table, when she suddenly froze. The house was supposed to be empty, her family was out for the night... but now, standing at the foot of her bed was a person, just staring up at her... and this person was dead.

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SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT:

Main Sources:



Pictures of Angela

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2...



Court transcripts and police report

Bess versus Texas

https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/co...



Bess versus Davis (more court testimony from Ben McCall)

https://casetext.com/case/bess-v-davis-1



POlice report on Angela Samota’s murder:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/re...



Inmate information

https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateS...



Historical newspaper articles:

Few leads in Angela’s death

Port Arthur News, October 15, 1984,Pg. 8, Port Arthur, Texas, US https://newspaperarchive.com/port-art...



Possible link to Angela’s murder

Galveston Daily News, October 16, 1984,Pg. 4, Galveston, Texas, US https://newspaperarchive.com/galvesto...



Probe, reward turn up nothing

Wichita Falls Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) · Thu, Dec 13, 1984 · Page 22

https://www.newspapers.com/image/7819...



Feature article about Sheila Wysocki

The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) · Thu, Mar 8, 2012 · Page A1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/2186...



Feature article about Russell Buchanan

San Angelo Standard-Times (San Angelo, Texas) · Sun, Oct 7, 2012 · Page 30

https://www.newspapers.com/image/7917...



Forensics

Forensic evidence (interactive)

https://prezi.com/p/-bix8axla0ki/fore...



Sheila Gibbons Wysocki

BBC article about Sheila (excellent)

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-4447...



TN Ledger on SW

https://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Ar...



Sheila Wysocki

https://www.sheilawysocki.com/gallery



Sheila and Angela

https://fortworthbusiness.com/governm...



Sheila Wysocki:

   • I Solved My Best Friend’s Murder | CH...  

Feb 21, 2018



Documentaries

Dateline June 8, 2012

https://archive.org/details/WRC_20120...



I solved a murder documentary

https://www.amazon.com/Sheila-Wysocki...



Oxygen documentary S2 E11

https://www.nbc.com/murdered-by-morni...