Cold Case Murder Trial Underway
Posted/updated on: October 18, 2012 at 11:28 am
TYLER — The trial for a man accused in a 1999 Smith County cold case murder began Tuesday in Tyler. KETK reports 34-year-old Shams Emil Masters faces up to life in prison if he’s convicted of murder. Masters had to be extradited from a prison in Colorado, where he was already serving time for seven bank robberies. He’s accused of murdering 19-year-old William Thomas Young at the Woodland Estates subdivision.
