Purchase "Clovis Road" Today

For details about how to purchase Clovis Road, the story of the Dr. Roy Hunt murder in 1943. Dedicated to Harold LaFont and Bill LaFont. Former Texas Supreme Court Judge Hon. Ted Z. Robertson advised the authors on Clovis Road. Send your name and address to 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas, 75214 and a check, cash, or money order for $30. The book is 184 pages, has 93000 words and 50 illustrations. It is hardback, first edition, and is its second printing. It is currently also available at Waymore's, the Waylon Jennings Museum and store, in Littlefield, Texas, at Hastings on Slide Road in Lubbock, at Hastings in Plainview, and at Amazon.com.The caption above Dana's head is a Channel 11 attempt to say the murders are not solved. Read Clovis Road.

KCBD Interview Airs "Clovis Road" Called "Controversial"

KCBD “Littlefield’s first murders remain unsolved”
On the phone, “It was like the day JFK died for the town of Littlefield, because it was their doctor.”
Dana Samuelson writes about the day Dr. Roy Hunt and his wife, Mae Franks, were found murdered in their home and the investigation that followed.
The recently released book, Clovis Road, details a rumored love triangle between Dr. Hunt and Ruth Newton, the wife of his medical school classmate.
The author says Dr. Newton hired someone to kill the couple. He appeared in trial numerous times to appeal the case.
Now the niece of Dr. Hunt tells that the community went from leaving their homes unlocked to being too scared to go outside.
Now this book is controversial, some of the family are not really happy with it, so there is another book in the works as to what really happened they say.
(Transcribed from KCBD broadcast 7.29.2010 from Littlefield in Local News Section 6:00 P.M. broadcast, the print version on their website is not the same, Dana never said the murders were still unsolved, she said to "read the book"). There were not just "rumors" about a "love triangle." Classmates were interviewed. Hunt and his brother testified about it.

Television KCBD Lubbock

While Dana and I, my son, Drew Samuelson, and her mother, Sue Middlebrooks, were vacationing in Sipapu, New Mexico, Dana got a call from Channel 11 in Lubbock from Christie Post of KCBD about Clovis Road. She wanted to include Clovis Road in a segment on the news about Littlefield that was set to view on Thursday, September 29. She and Dana had a telephone interview about Clovis Road last night. The call from Mr. Bill LaFont came while I was at the Crescent Park Motel in Littlefield last year, and we got the delayed call from Christie Post at the Crescent Park this time, it may be good luck for the story to be at the Crescent Park Motel! Turns out KCBD planned an interview to show off an alternative view of the Hunt murders, discredit Clovis Road, and did not focus on the two authors or the thrust of Clovis Road, only on different views from Lubbock.

Sunday Evening in Littlefield 1943

The Roy Hunts were visiting in Lubbock. Jim Thomas usually had an accomplice and they were in Littlefield. An interesting part of the telling of Clovis Road was whether Thomas would have killed the Hunts that night had they been home. He probably would have tried. It turned into a recon mission, and he returned the next night. He may have been there other evenings also. Who was that accomplice and was he there the next night?
Another question that came up in writing the story was the usually barking dogs next door to the west. They didn’t bark. Thomas did not know the dogs so it was not like the Sherlock Holmes story. The Sunday visit allowed them to know he had to drug the dogs the next night, which according to Slo Grisom there is no doubt he did.

Mid-Year Publicity for Clovis Road

The Clovis Road ad ran in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal on June 27. Also last week we received the July 2010 issue of the "Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings" where on page 316 is a notice of "A notable book by a Baylor physician" wherein Clovis Road, and its authors are named, along with a summary of the plot, and information about obtaining it at Amazon.com.