Shelton Williams - Washed in The Blood

Washed in The Blood

Williams was profoundly affected as a young man by the cold-blooded murder of his cousin Betty Williams in 1961, an event much publicized at the time throughout the Southwestern United States and popularly known as the “Kiss and Kill Murder.” He devoted years of study to the facts of his cousin’s killing and the court trial of her alleged murderer, writing a true crime book about the affair entitled Washed in the Blood. This book made Williams the subject of magazine and newspaper articles across the southwestern United States. It also motivated him to write a second true crime book dealing with Charles Whitman.

Since publication of Washed in the Blood, actress Moira Kelly has shown interest in developing the novel into a screenplay, tentatively planning to begin filming in the summer of 2009.