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The Girl Who Played Dead

By AAN Staff
july 17, 2003  09:38 am
The Girl Who Played Dead
Dallas Observer Editor Julie Lyons goes in search of a young woman who survived one of the most horrific crimes in Dallas history and finds a still youthful woman with clear brown eyes who remembers nothing. Lyons finds all the survivors and two of the gunmen in the "bathtub shooting" -- five teenagers shoved into a bathtub with the water running and peppered with dozens of .45 caliber rounds. Because Lizzie Williams played dead, miraculously four of them survived. The crime was the emotional peak of a virtual war over the crack trade in South Dallas, now a fading memory.
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