True Crime: How a Mysterious Beaumont, Texas, Murder Was Solved
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After a murder at the Elegante Hotel in Texas stumped local police, investigator Ken Brennan looked at the case with fresh eyes. Mark Bowden on what he found.

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.