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  Doris Angleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doris met Robert Angleton at a bar in the Houston West Loop when she was 28 years old
Doris' failure to return to a softball game sparked suspiscion in her twin daughters, who were twelve years old at the time.
Doris was in the process of divorcing him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Angleton   (717 words)

  
 Robert Angleton - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Robert's brother Roger Nicholas Angleton was born in 1942, while Robert, or Bob, was born in 1948.
Doris and Robert had very different personalities; Doris was warm and sociable, thus winning her many friends.
Since Doris was divorcing Robert, she would have taken a share of his profits, and she would have exposed his bookmaking scheme.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Robert_Nicholas_Angleton   (762 words)

  
 Doris Angleton - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Doris McGown was born on April 11, 1951.
Doris wanted out of her marriage when she grew tired of the bookmaking, and despite the fact that her husband sent her love letters and gifts, she went ahead with the divorce process, and she wanted to take fifty percent of the estate.
Doris' failure to return to a softball game sparked suspicion in her twin daughters, who were twelve years old at the time.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Doris_Angleton   (975 words)

  
 Suspect faces high-stakes slaying trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But Angleton will be the one taking the biggest gamble of his life when his capital murder trial starts Tuesday and his high-dollar defense team tries to convince jurors that he was framed by his brother and played no part in planning the slaying of his wife.
The evening she died, Doris Angleton had gone by a softball game in which her daughters were playing and was told a bat had been left at home.
Doris Angleton had obtained a restraining order to keep her husband from entering their safety deposit box and sources familiar with the case have speculated that Robert Angleton was possibly hiding millions of dollars from her.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/98/07/26/angleton_2-1.html   (1429 words)

  
 United States Attorneys' Office - Southern District of Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angleton was charged with tax evasion in May 2002 and passport fraud after he fled to the Netherlands in July 2003, one week before his trial for the murder-for-hire of his wife, Doris Angleton.
Angleton was convicted in February of this year on three counts of excise tax evasion for the years 1995 and 1996 and the first four months of 1997 following a bench trial before United States District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt.
Angleton admitted that he was aware that as a bookmaker he was liable for an excise tax of 2 percent of any wager accepted by him.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/txs/releases/June2005/050613-Angleton.htm   (596 words)

  
 Houston slaying probe sheds light on police-informant relationship
Angleton's wife, Doris McGown Angleton, 46, was shot a dozen times in the head and chest April 16 in the couple's home on the fringe of Houston's exclusive River Oaks section.
Angleton died in what one homicide investigator said appeared to be a professional killing, she filed for divorce from her husband of 15 years.
Angleton had cash assets frozen that she said her husband kept in safe deposit boxes at several area banks, according to court documents.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/052697/houston.htm   (553 words)

  
 [No title]
Angleton urges in his motion that the sham prosecution exception applies to his case because of the extensive involvement of the Houston Police Department and other state officials in the federal prosecution.
Angleton contends that the federal government is not pursuing an independent sovereign interest but instead is acting as a surrogate for the state by bringing a second prosecution.
Angleton argues in his motion that changes in the dual sovereignty doctrine, the increasing federalization of criminal law and changes in the jurisprudence of the commerce clause make federal prosecution hard to justify.
www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1024079063228   (1758 words)

  
 Doris Angleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Doris graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in pathology.
Doris wanted out her marriage when she grew tired of bookmaking and despite the fact that her sent her love letters and gifts she ahead with the divorce process and she to take fifty percent of the estate.
Doris' failure to return to a softball sparked suspicion in her twin daughters Alessandra and Nicole Angleton.
www.freeglossary.com /Doris_Angleton   (1334 words)

  
 The Facts
Angleton’s brother, Roger, also was charged with capital murder, but killed himself in jail 10 months after the shooting, shortly before the case was set to go to trial.
Doris’ father, Randy McGown, who was an engineer for Dow Chemical Co., was still living in the family home on Narcissus in 1997 at the time of his daughter’s murder, said former neighbor Dee Schrieber.
Doris was there, a proud mother with her young twin girls, Alessandra and Nicole, in tow.
www.thefacts.com /print.lasso?ewcd=4d78bee1d8f2e79d   (960 words)

  
 United States Attorneys' Office - Southern District of Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Court concluded that Angleton showed little respect for the law and noted his announced intent to flee the jurisdiction of the court upon his release from prison to avoid being tried for the murder of his wife.
Angleton was charged in July 2003, along with Lorenzo Sarinas, 44, with the passport fraud conspiracy, two counts of passport fraud, and failure to appear.
Angleton is pending sentencing for three separate excise tax charges for which he was convicted in February 2005 following his pleas of guilty to each charge, again, without benefit of a plea agreement with the United States.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/txs/releases/May2005/050510-Angleton.htm   (881 words)

  
 Sarrecchia2
Angleton had filed for divorce just two months before her death in April of 1997, and she was not going to go empty-handed.  According to her attorney, Mrs.
Angleton wanted fifty percent of the estate.  Additionally, her lawyer was pressing her to report the family income to the IRS -- something that would cause problems for her mobster husband.
Angleton was not a passive Carmella Soprano in her relationship.  According to Mr.
www.kennesaw.edu /themagazine/Sarrecchia2.htm   (881 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Robert Angleton is facing federal charges of murder-for-hire after being acquitted in state court for the April 1997 shooting death of his wife, Doris Angleton.
In 1998, his brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide in jail and left a note saying that he killed Doris Angleton and that Robert was not involved.
Angleton's attorney has long contended that the prosecution was double jeopardy since Angleton was acquitted of murder charges in state court.
www.officer.com /news/IBS/kprc/news-2002308.html   (329 words)

  
 Roger Angleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Nicholas Angleton (1942 – February 7, 1998) was the man who confessed to murdering his sister-in law Doris Angleton in her River Oaks home in Houston, Texas.
Roger Angleton was 55 years old at the time of the murder.
That lesser crime was exposed anyway, but Robert was acquitted of killing Doris in the state trial, but had been arrested for similar charges by the United States Department of Justice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Angleton   (312 words)

  
 Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Man charged in murder-for-hire case now accused of tax evasion
Angleton, 53, already has been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy, murder for hire and a firearms violation related to the killing of his wife, Doris.
Angleton was acquitted in state court on similar charges.
Angleton remains free on a $300,000 bond in the murder-for-hire case.
www.texnews.com /1998/2002/texas/texas_Man_charg817.html   (442 words)

  
 Abiline Reporter
Defense attorneys opened their case with the videotaped testimony of a voice expert who contends Bob Angleton is not one of two men heard plotting the slaying on an audiotape.
The state contends Bob and Roger Angleton are heard plotting the April 16, 1997, slaying of Bob's wife, Doris McGown Angleton.
Angleton, 46, was killed two months after she filed for divorce and obtained half of $3 million the couple had in safe deposit boxes.
www.videoexpert.com /news/abiline_reporter.htm   (279 words)

  
 WOAI: San Antonio News - Former millionaire bookie sentenced for tax evasion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Last month, Angleton was sentenced to five years in prison and a $150,000 fine for using an altered passport to flee the country in the days leading up to his federal murder-for-hire trial based on his wife's shooting death.
Robert Angleton was acquitted of capital murder in 1998 after Roger Angleton killed himself in jail, leaving a suicide note taking responsibility for the shooting and saying his brother was innocent.
Angleton is going to prison for over 12 and a half years, it might just be a little piece of justice for the fact that Mrs.
www.woai.com /news/state/story.aspx?content_id=E89609CE-F05C-45F6-839A-AFCC3AE58A62   (796 words)

  
 NBC 15 :: Close to Home - Former Texas millionaire bookie sentenced for tax evasion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angleton made a tearful apology, saying his mistakes "have ruined my life and I've ruined their lives," pointing to his twin college-aged daughters.
Angleton and his brother, Roger, were first charged in state court for Doris Angleton's death.
Robert Angleton was acquitted in 1998 after his brother killed himself in jail, leaving a suicide note taking responsibility for the shooting and saying his brother was innocent.
www.wpmi.com /news/national/story.aspx?content_id=5192D5FD-14ED-4A0D-A3C4-19A16DDD6310   (421 words)

  
 Ex-bookie accused of hiring brother to kill wife goes on trial
Bob Angleton is accused of hiring his brother to kill his wife on April 16, 1997, at the couple's upscale home in the River Oaks section of Houston.
Doris McGown Angleton, 46, was shot to death after she went home to retrieve a bat to take to her twin daughters' softball game.
Several months after the slaying, Roger Angleton was arrested in Las Vegas carrying a briefcase that contained $64,000 in cash, notes that referred to a killing and an audiotape on which two men discuss the murder of a woman.
www.texascollegeconnection.com /1998/texas/oaks0729.html   (536 words)

  
 The Bookie's Wife, Bookie Tried For Wife's Murder And Acquitted - CBS News
Doris Angleton’s body was found lying in the hallway next to the kitchen.
Doris Angleton was well liked and well off, living in one of Houston’s well-heeled neighborhoods.
Her friend, Mary Lou Sullivan, says Doris was waiting until the end of the school year to tell the twins about the divorce.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/01/10/48hours/main323924.shtml   (1005 words)

  
 WOAI: San Antonio News - Millionaire bookie pleads guilty to passport charges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Doris Angleton was found shot 13 times in the family's upscale River Oaks home in 1997.
Roger Angleton killed himself in jail 10 months after the shooting, shortly before the case was set to go to trial.
Robert Angleton was acquitted in state court in 1998, but he was later indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and a firearms charge.
www.woai.com /news/state/story.aspx?content_id=0C9B5AC2-6165-4819-986B-080AAC308755   (657 words)

  
 Angleton suicide letter says brother is innocent
Roger Angleton was charged with capital murder, allegedly for shooting Doris Angleton, 46, in her River Oaks home on April 16, 1997.
During the game, Doris Angleton left to get a softball bat from her home, where a waiting intruder shot her several times with a.22-caliber pistol.
During the investigation, police said Robert Angleton was a well-known Houston bookmaker and had acted as an informant for the HPD vice division for years.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/02/09/note.html   (871 words)

  
 This Day in History
Doris Angleton is killed in her home in the River Oaks area of Houston, Texas.
Finally, the Angleton's two daughters testified that the voice on the tape was not their father's.
Angleton was only the second capital murder defendant in the history of Harris County, Texas, to win an acquittal when a death sentence was sought.
www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=crime&month=10272956&day=10272981   (528 words)

  
 American Journalism Review
On January 25 of this year, Robert Angleton was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and murder for hire, as well as a firearms violation.
Angleton's business as a millionaire bookmaker was not widely known outside the tightly knit group of people who placed bets with him, fellow bookies and the few police investigators to whom he supplied information.
While Angleton's indictment in late January eliminated the possibility that Leggett would be hauled before another grand jury, the prosecution could still summon her to the trial.
www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=2461   (5099 words)

  
 Texas Monthly November 1997: The Bookmaker’s Wife
Doris’ husband, Bob, was already at the ballpark when she and the twelve-year-olds arrived.
One woman on the Angletons’ block was so terrified by the various rumors that she hired an off-duty Houston police officer for $25 an hour to spend the night at her home for a week in case the killer, or killers, returned to get Angleton himself.
Angleton’s “recruiters,” some of whom were young men from wealthy families, passed his name around at the city’s better country clubs to known top-dollar gamblers.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1997-11-01/feature3.php   (3021 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Reporter's jailing by feds draws criticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angleton was the wife of Robert Angleton, a millionaire ex-bookie who was acquitted in 1998 of hiring his brother to commit the murder.
Leggett has spent several years researching the slaying in April 1997 of Doris Angleton, whose husband, Robert, was acquitted in a state court in August 1998.
Robert Angleton's brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide in jail in February 1998, leaving a confession that said he had acted alone.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/july01/2001-07-30-reporter.htm   (670 words)

  
 Angleton Arrested, This Time by Feds, Indictment List Murder for Hire
Angleton moved there with his twin daughters after his wife, Doris, was shot to death April 16, 1997.
Doris Angleton had filed for divorce and had asked that millions of dollars kept in safety deposit boxes at area banks be frozen pending settlement of her divorce suit.
HPD officers said Doris Angleton was ambushed and killed by her brother-in-law, Roger, and that her husband paid his brother.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/616211/posts   (6591 words)

  
 WARNING TO ALL INDYMEDIA FREELANCE WRITERS : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Leggett, 33, has been detained since July 20 after she refused to release information from confidential sources to a grand jury investigating Robert Angleton, a Houston bookie whose wife, Doris, was slain in 1997.
Doris Angleton was shot a dozen times in the head and chest April 16, 1997, by an intruder in her home.
Robert Angleton was acquitted in 1998 of a capital murder charge.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=113336   (1028 words)

  
 Vanessa Leggett to Receive 2002 PEN/Newman's Own Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Angleton's millionaire husband, Robert, was accused of paying his brother, Roger, to kill his wife.
But after Robert Angleton was acquitted in state court, a federal investigation into his activities was launched, and a federal grand jury subpoenaed all of Leggett's tape-recorded conversations with anyone she had interviewed about the Angleton case.
Because she had not promised confidentiality to Roger Angleton and because his suicide precluded prosecutors from questioning him directly, Leggett complied with the subpoena and handed over her interviews to the grand jury.
www.freeexpression.org /newswire/0411_2002.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Accused killer's suicide note will not get brother off the hook
Roger Angleton said he was taking his life because guilt from the crime became unbearable.
That night Robert and Doris Angleton and their two daughters had gone to a softball game.
Police revealed that Robert Angleton was a well-known Houston bookmaker who had been an informant for the police's vice division for years.
www.texnews.com /1998/texas/roak0210.html   (411 words)

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