A Good Friend

Dennis Capps was a good friend who came to visit with a bunch of other friends. He was just one of the guys sucking on a beer - a fun, loud older man, rough around the edges, tattoos all over, but good-natured and funny.

It was June 10, 2006 when Dennis Capps and two friends dropped by the trailer of their other friend Brian Aldrich of South Padre Island, Texas. They hung out for a while and left. Unbeknownst to everyone, Capps had seen Aldrich flash a handful of hundred-dollar bills earlier. He later came back to ask Brian for some of that money, with witnesses looking on.

Capps entered the trailer after Aldrich and beat him to death. The attack was so brutal, what remained of Brian Aldrich and the objects Capps smashed into him, was not pretty.

It wasn't difficult for police to determine who was responsible for this handiwork. Capps was arrested in December 2006 and charged with capital murder. Problem is, they let him out on a laughably affordable bond of $100,000 (only 10% is required in cash, the rest - collateral-backed loan). It was June 2007. No one has seen Capps since. He is on the Texas Department of Public Safety's Top 10 Most Wanted List.

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