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.
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
