When a dedicated Idaho game warden vanishes into the forest, its all hands on deck to find him. Then, nearly 90 years later the mystery is finally solved. The legacy of a fallen Texas game warden endures despite a questionable conclusion in court for his killer.
Ellsworth Teed (Photo Source) Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press
John ‘J.D.’ Murphree (Photo Source) Officer Down Memorial Page
Henry Edward Morse (Photo Source) The Houston Chronicle
Shoshone County, Idaho Image (Photo Source)
Jasper County, Idaho Image (Photo Source)
Shoshone County, Idaho Map (Source) Google Maps
Jasper County, Idaho Map (Source) Google Maps
Episode Source Material
- Shoshone News-Press: Starts war against game poachers and fish law violators. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: Game Warden is missing in hills south of Mullan. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Coeur d’Alene Press: Game Warden is missing in Mullan Hills. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Associated Press via The Idaho Statesman: Hounds hunt Game Warden. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Coeur d’Alene Press: 1000 join hunt. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: E. A. Teed. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: No new clues in Teed probe. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: Sister posts $300 reward for finding of missing Warden. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: Teed Case reopened. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Coeur d’Alene Press: Authorities claim Game Warden alive. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Shoshone News-Press: Widow of missing man wins insurance suit. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Kellogg Evening News: 25 years ago. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Corpus Christi Caller-Times: The Sportsman: Wardens and a Widow. By Roy Swann via newspapers.com.
- Victoria Advocate: Game Warden killed. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Houston Post: Contributions being asked for family of slain Game Warden. By Harv Boughton via newspapers.com.
- The Odessa American: Casin’ the Basin. By Marvin Ellis via newspapers.com.
- The United Press International via The Monitor: Game Warden seen by hunter as elude man. By Carlton Wilson via newspapers.com.
- Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: The South Plains Sportsman. By Leo Healervia newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: Faces murder count. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: Henry Morse’s murder trial set on Sept. 7. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: Morse Trial Continued at Jasper. By Pete Collins via newspapers.com.
- Corpus Christi Times: Witness suffers heart attack: trial delayed. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: Murder trial is under way. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: In Warden’s death. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Houston Chronicle: Gave son shotgun. By Bob Bowman via newspapers.com.
- The Orange Leader: In slaying of Game Warden. By Pete Collins via newspapers.com.
- Associated Press via Victoria Advocate: Trial involving slaying of Game Warden to end. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Houston Chronicle: Vidor boy gets two years in Game Warden’s death. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Kilgore News Herald: Officer memorial dedicated. By Archie Whitfield via newspapers.com.
- Shelby County Today: J. D. Murphree. By Doug Fincher via scttx.com.
- Idaho Fish and Game: Deceased Deputy Game Warden Ellsworth Arthur Teed accepted into two law enforcement memorials. By Staff via idfg.idaho.gov.
- Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press: Missing since 1934, Game Warden receives posthumous honors. By T.J. Ross via cdapress.com.
- Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press: Cold case closed after 90 years. By Carolyn Bostick via cdapress.com.
- Officer Down Memorial Page: Deputy Game Warden Ellsworth Arthur Teed. By Staff via odmp.com.
- The Spokesman-Review: The 90-year-old North Idaho cold case of a missing game warden is finally closed. By Alexandra Duggan via spokesman.com.
- Officer Down Memorial Page: Game Warden John David Murphree. By Staff via odmp.com.
- Family Search: George Henry Pentland.
- The Idaho Statesman: St. Maries Police Nab Four on Holdup Charge. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Idaho Statesman: State Prison Receives Five New Boarders. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Idaho Statesman: 23 Pleas Denied, Five Gain Commuted Sentences at Idaho Prison. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Post-Register: Petty Larceny Charge Levied Against Three via newspapers.com.
- The Coeur d’Alene Press: John Pentland, 79 via newspapers.com.
- Find a Grave: John D. Murphree
- Bison Media Company: The Dreadful Disappearance of Deputy Game Warden Ellsworth Arthur Teed. Via Youtube.
- Find a Grave: Henry Edward Morse
- Texas Parks & Wildlife: J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area Information