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The crooked longtime
The crooked longtime

Valley History: E. E. Vickers in 1968

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalHistory is replete with crooked rogues who masqueraded as upstanding public servants for so long, the public never knew what went on behind closed doors.Take longtime Hidalgo County Sheriff E. E. Vickers, for example, who served as Hidalgo County Sheriff from 1955 to his retirement in 1968, after which time, Claudio Castañeda became sheriff for the next eight years.The Advance News Journal didn’t begin publication until March 1978, so, for Valley history going back further in time, other news sources, such as The Monitor tell the tale.As I’m working to wrap up my second true-crime book,

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