Liberty County Now Famous

AUSTIN, December 27, 2011 - These days it seems everybody wants to be famous including the Kardashians who have no talents or skills they’ve just made an entire career out of being famous.

Well, Liberty County is now famous as well having received the dubious distinction of being a recipient of one of Texas Monthly Magazine’s, “Bum Steer Awards,” for this year.

This honor was earned by the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department and Captain Rex Evans for their wild goose chase looking for dead bodies early this year near Hardin when Evans started receiving tips from self described psychic, Presley Gridley that became an international media frenzy after law enforcement leaks concerning the psychic’s claims.

Texas Monthly in the January 2012 issue puts it this way…

“I see Dead Law Enforcement Careers.” Texas Monthly goes on to say, “News sites around the world posted near real-time updates as Liberty County Sheriff’s Officers and FBI agents mounted urgent, high-profile searches of two properties on consecutive days, fruitlessly looking for a purported mass grave of up to thirty bodies. The law officers later admitted that the operation was based on unsolicited tips from a self described psychic.”

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