

But she had always been drawn to true-crime stories - her grandparents’ farm in Kansas wasn’t far from the Clutters’, made infamous by “In Cold Blood,” and her mother used to tell her stories about how nobody in town liked Truman Capote - so the job wound up suiting her. She was initially put off by the idea of defending people who might well be guilty.
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Avery began to work for him in 2013, writing news releases and sitting second chair at trial as his discovery expert. Her best friend put her in touch with Looney, who flew out and cleared up the matter. After her husband, an OB-GYN, died of a heart attack, she hired other doctors and continued to own and operate his clinic - until a competitor reported her to local authorities for practicing medicine without a license.

They met in 2002, when Avery needed a lawyer herself. “The other one entered through his back and exited out.” “So he’s got a gunshot wound that you see is in his face and his eye,” she noted, pausing at a particularly grisly image. Moving to a large computer monitor, Avery began to click through crime-scene photographs, many of them graphic close-ups of dead bodies. I know these guys.” She wore a large black onyx ring and brilliant cherry red lipstick one of her Chihuahuas, Bonnie, padded by in a white dress with a red bow. “There’s a rumor that he killed somebody,” she said one morning two years ago, tapping a face. Point to a random photograph, and Avery will generally be able to squint and tell you something about the biker in question. Army - 2 tours Iraq” “Convicted felon” “Shot dog?” “Did not see anything” “Graduate Baylor University w/ English degree”). Each picture is layered with Post-it Notes and details about the subjects: ages, road names (Cheech, Chain, Drama, Sidetrack, Saint, Mad Dog, Pee Paw, Bubba, Bubba Earl, Bashful, Yogi, Reno, Creeper, Grumpy Dan), club affiliations, ranks, descriptions of injuries (“Bullet entered neck, partially exited” “Paralyzed from the waist down” “DEAD”) and any other pertinent information (“I met him March 2018” “9mm Glock” “U.S.

An entire wall of her home office in Norman, Okla., is covered with wallet-size mug shots of the nearly 200 bikers arrested, as well as photographs of the nine men who died that day, seven years ago, after a violent brawl in a Waco parking lot. If you ask Paul Looney, a Houston defense attorney, about the Twin Peaks biker case, he’ll tell you there’s one person who knows more about it than anyone else alive: his trial-preparation specialist, Roxanne Avery.
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