A Texas Ranger named Tobias Kinnard was assigned in the second week of November.

He is the single most patient human being I have ever dealt with and he said perhaps four hundred words to me in nineteen months, of which about thirty were: “Mr.

Alvarado, I know you want to know.

I’m not going to tell you.

That’s not me being unkind, that’s me protecting the case from you.”

In December the elected district attorney of that judicial district recused himself, because his brother-in-law did title work for Gaddis Capital, and he did it on his own initiative in a two-paragraph letter, and I have come to think that letter was the most consequential act of personal integrity in the whole nineteen months.

A special prosecutor named Yvonne Dasgupta was appointed out of a neighboring district.