1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital

by Jesse Sublett

Book Overview

Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626198403
• ISBN13: 9781626198401
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.8"