When a well-known attorney and prominent cattle rustling investigator vanishes without a trace in White Sands National Park along with his young son, alarm bells go off right away. However, the road to justice would be a long and complicated one.
Albert Jennings Fountain Sr. (Photo Source) Find A Grave: Albert Jennings Fountain Sr.
Albert Bacon Fall (Photo Source) Headstuff.org
Oliver Lee (Photo Source) Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. By Corey Recko. Published 2007.
James Gililand (Photo Source) Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. By Corey Recko. Published 2007.
William McNew (Photo Source) Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. By Corey Recko. Published 2007.
Pat Garrett (Photo Source) El Paso Daily Herald
Map of Key Locations (Photo Source) Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. By Corey Recko. Published 2007.
Historic Marker on Highway 70 (Photo Source) Desert USA
White Sands National Park Image (Photo Source) National Park Service
White Sands National Park Map (Source) Google Maps
Episode Source Material
- Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. By Corey Recko. Published 2007.
- CoreyRecko.com: Timeline, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain.
- Desert USA: Albert Jenning Fountain, The Infamous Fountain Murder. By Jay W. Sharp.
- The New Mexican Review: McNew Held. By staff Via newspapers.com
- Albuquerque Journal: Does Col. Fountain Live? By staff Via newspapers.com
- El Paso Daily Herald: Gathering at Silver City Witnesses and Prominent Citizens Attend the McNew Trial in Large Numbers. Via newspapers.com.
- El Paso Daily Herald: Story of the Fountain Case.
- The Arizona Republican: A Tragedy of Years. By staff.
- El Paso Daily Herald: The Fountain Trial.
- El Paso Daily Herald: Two Sensations.
- El Paso Daily Herald: Jack Maxwell On the Stand. By staff Via newspapers.com
- El Paso Daily Herald: Their Records Are Dug Up. By staff Via newspapers.com
- El Paso Daily Herald: Attorney’s Argue. By staff Via newspapers.com.
- El Paso Daily Herald: Daugherty and Fall Address the Jury in Behalf of the Defendants. By staff Via newspapers.com
- El Paso Daily Herald: Not Guilty.
- Albuquerque Daily Citizen: Difference of Opinion as to the Identity of the Bones Discovered in James Canyon. By staff.
- The Albuquerque Tribune: Pat Garrett Who Killed Billy The Kid Meets Sudden Death in Gun Fight. By staff Via newspapers.com.
- El Paso Daily Herald: Pat Garrett is Slain by Wayne Brazel Near Cruces. By staff Via newspapers.com
- Albuquerque Journal: A Six Shooter Bullet Ends Life of Pat Garrett: By staff Via newspapers.com.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Expect To Free Brazel. By staff Via newspapers.com.
- El Paso Morning Times: Las Cruces Jury Finds Wayne Brazel Not Guilty. By staff Via newspapers.com.
- Glenville Progress: Sins and Sinners. By Staff Via newspapers.com.
- Texas State Historical Association: The Life and Legacy of Albert Jennings Fountain: Lawyer, Legislator, and Indian Fighter.
- Gililland.net: Another Accounting of the Infamous Jim Gililland As Told By His Great Niece, Viola Smith-Hobbs.
- EPCC: Borderlands: Albert J. Fountain’s Achievements Eclipsed by Mysterious Death. Volume 22. By Joseph Bernal, Ashley Harris, Jessie Manzanares and Kristi Smith.
- True West Magazine: Who Killed Col. Fountain? By Mark Boardman.
- Legends of America: The Fountain Murders: Sites Today. By Corey Recko.
- Historical Markers of New Mexico: Disappearances of Albert J. Fountain and his son Henry Historical Marker: Otero County.
- Legends of America: Albert Jennings Fountain – Missing in the Desert. By Kathy Alexander.
- Legends of America: Pat Garrett- An Unlucky Lawman. By Kathy Alexander.
- Find A Grave: Albert Jennings Fountain Sr.
- The Doe Network: Albert Jennings Fountain.
- Headstuff.org: Albert Fall, American Politician and Criminal. By Ciaran Conliffe.