Clothahump

Oh, man. I remember the folks cruising up and down Westheimer big time.

And I hated it.

They tracked down two women, Marcia McKittrick, a prostitute who drove the getaway car, and Lilla Paulus, an acquaintance of Ash Robinson, and even proved that Paulus hired the gunman. But they could never connect the dots and connect Robinson to the shooting. Old Ash covered his tracks very very well.

Just stumbled across this thread and thought I would drop $0.02 into the bucket.

The primary witness against Lilla Paulus was her daughter, Mary Jo. Lilla was one of the last of the old-timey madams here in Houston. She ran a string of cathouses down in Galveston on the old Post Office street. Sweet, loving mother that she was, she turned her daughter out at about age 12 and MJ spent several summers turning tricks in one of her mother's places.

I went to high school with MJ and knew her fairly well. She was a very nice girl. You'd have never known her secret life (at least I didn't). When I discovered Thompson's book and read it for the first time, I nearly died from astonishment when I read MJ's role in all this.