THE TEXAS BLOODBATH: The Mitchell Family Who Slaughtered 21 Men Over a Stolen Flatbed

THE TEXAS BLOODBATH: The Mitchell Family Who Slaughtered 21 Men Over a Stolen Flatbed March 1974. Odessa, Texas. A flatbed truck disappears from a salvage yard on the outskirts of town. It's worth maybe two thousand dollars—not nothing, but not a fortune either. The kind of theft that happens every week in oil boom country. The owners are the Mitchell family. Five men who run the biggest scrap metal operation in Ector County. Hard men. Violent men. Men who have built their business on a simple rule: you don't steal from the Mitchells. The thieves are the Renfro brothers. Four men who think they can take what they want and disappear into the chaos of the oil fields. They're wrong. Over the next eight months, twenty-one men will die. Not just the Renfros—but everyone connected to them. Friends. Employers. Anyone who helped them, hid them, or simply knew where they were. The bodies will be buried on Mitchell land, in shallow graves that will stay hidden for forty-five years. This is the story of the longest killing spree in Texas history that no one ever heard about. Until now.