William C. Dear (born August, 1937) is a

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Background

Dear owns the firm William C. Dear & Associates. His notable cases include the original "steam tunnel incident" involving

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, the murder of millionaire businessman Dean Milo in 1980, the exhumation of

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in 1981 and the Glen Courson murder case in 1986. Television work includes being an investigator on ''

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. Dear was later featured in the 2000 BBC Documentary ''OJ: The Untold Story''. Dear was a candidate for Governor of Texas in the 2010 Texas Democratic Primary.

Books

* 1984: '' The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III'' (Houghton Mifflin, Boston) * 1989: '' "Please ... Don't Kill Me": The True Story of the Milo Murder'' (Houghton Mifflin, Boston) (with Carlton Stowers) * 1992: '' Private Detective: From the Files of the World's Greatest Private Eye'' (Bloomsbury, London) * 2001: '' O.J. Is Guilty But Not of Murder'' (Dear Overseas) * 2012: '' O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove It: The Shocking Truth about the Murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman'' (Skyhorse Publishing) According to Dear's webpage, he has also written a fictional book called ''Dead Men Don't Lie''. He has also written two instructional books: ''Adopted: How to Find Your Biological Parents and Other Family Members'', and ''Fingerprinting: How to Take Mistake-Proof Fingerprint Impressions''.

References

External links

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