Two Customs Inspectors, One Family, One Border Crossing: The 1984 Kidnapping of Richard Latham
On a Friday afternoon in January 1984, U.S. Customs Inspector Richard Latham looked under the back seat of a car at the Del Rio port of entry and found a bag of stolen jewelry. Minutes later, four men forced him into the car at gunpoint and drove away.
Sixty years earlier, his grandfather, Customs Inspector James Wallen, had been killed near the same crossing. The next day, Latham's body was found in a ditch near Eagle Pass, Texas. Within hours, one suspect shot himself at a roadblock, another was in custody, and the FBI was questioning him.
This episode traces the abduction, the overnight…
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