Filing by Cook Alleges Prosecutor Kept Murder Weapon

Updated at 12:15 p.m. on May 1 to include response from former Smith County district attorney A.D. Clark III, denying the allegations.

The prosecutor who sent Kerry Max Cook to death row in 1978 for a gruesome stabbing death has kept the blood-soaked murder weapon at his home for the last decade as a macabre “souvenir” of one of Tyler’s most infamous and brutal killings, according to a motion the former inmate’s lawyers filed Monday in Smith County.

Along with the knife, former Smith County District Attorney A.D. Clark III — now with the Texas ...

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