Records in slaying of four conflict with claim that deputies were too busy
PoliceNewsLink.Com
March 13, 2010, 11:29PM

Four months ago, San Jacinto Sheriff's Capt. Carl Jones offered a simple reason why his deputies couldn't respond to a mother's plea for help with her mentally ill son who was having bizarre hallucinations. His deputies were too busy with high-priority calls.

"We were busier than a cat covered in Meow Mix," Jones stated then.

Gloria Bills, a 71-year-old widow, would be among those killed by the time a deputy was finally dispatched to the family's home near Coldspring on Nov. 7, seven hours after her first desperate phone call to the sheriff's department.