As heard on the Dan Patrick show, here’s who you want to contact:

Ravan Kazan
Director of Victim Services Division
7800 Shoal Creek Blvd. Suite # 230S
PO Box 13401
Austin, Texas 78711
Fax # 512 452-0825
E-Mail: victim.svc@tdcj.state.tx.us

Here is the murderer up for parole:

Reference : Timothy Acklen
ST ID # 04141843
TDCJ # 00512444

Here’s a sample letter from the victim’s parents:

To Whom it may concern,

On July 14th, 1988 Timothy Acklen and James Garcia (also in the Tdcj at this time) willfully and with malice and forethought murdered our son Paul Brandon Elledge. They stalked him like an animal and Acklen shot him point blank in the face with a 38 caliber pistol he had taken from his father’s night stand.

This wasn’t a case of a “kid fight” gone bad, or a dope deal or some other nefarious activity. These two monsters had a list of 28 names of young men and women in the Sugar Land area and our Brandon wasn’t even their first name on the list.

When asked by the District attorney about the list Acklen readily volunteered that it was a list of stereo/radio equipment in cars and trucks in the Sugar land area.

He further said that it was Brandon Elledge they chose off the list first (even though he wasn’t the first name on the list) because, to quote Acklen; ”We knew where Brandon would be… we knew he’d be over at the school lifting weights getting ready for football season.”

He was indeed there that day and they even went into the weight room and “spotted” the weights for him as he worked out. Then , per their plan , they asked him to give Acklen a ride home. Most upper classmen would have never considered taking a “freshmen” home after workout. But Brandon wasn’t a regular kid. He often did it and this time he paid for his kindness with his life when he took the wrong monster home.

District Attorney Sam Dick asked Acklen at the grand jury session; “Did the Elledge boy ever do anything to you? I mean hurt you or threaten you in any way?

Acklen’s answer: Nope…we picked him because he would be an easy target.”

Sam Dick asked one last question: Mr. Acklen? If you had gotten away with the murder of the Elledge boy what would you have done next?”

Without pause Acklen said: GO TO THE NEXT NAME ON THE LIST!!!!”

Can you imagine such a monster and can you further imagine what a monster he must be now these eighteen years later after he has mastered the art of prison life?

I urge you to do two things before you ever consider letting this monster out of jail.

One, get the adult certification and trial transcripts and look at the picture of my son after he was shot by those monsters. It is too horrible to describe.

Secondly look deep inside yourself and imagine what a cold bloodied killer like Acklen might do if he was ever allowed into the world of free people. He is a cold blooded sociopath who would kill again in a heartbeat and he must never be released to go where he would surly kill again.

On four occasions you have refused to parole his accomplish James Edward Garcia, most recently just a couple of years ago. Further, if they had not been juveniles we’d be making ready to execute the both of them or they would already be executed by now.

I elected to plea bargain their cases to spare my family the horrors of a trial for want of only a few more years of sentence we got agreements to serve from both Acklen and Garcia.

Rest assured I’d have gone the distance if we could have seen them get the needle. If ever a crime deserved a death penalty in Texas theirs did. They didn’t get that justice because they were a few months too young.

In any event to release this man out and on to society would be unconscionable. I know you will do the right thing, as you have done already with James Garcia.

For the benefit of future boards I am going to “sound the alarm” to my personal data base and the media. Hopefully there will be a significant number of other letters sent to the board and put in his file. Please consider the magnitude of the crime and the admitted potential for this inmate to have been a serial killer. This time they caught him in ten hours. Next time and after years of prison exposure to every known manner of other criminals we may not be so lucky. Leave him where he poses no threat to any of us on the outside. The risk is too great to do otherwise.

Thank you for remembering our family and our son Brandon as you reach your decision.

Yours Truly,

Ben and Betty Elledge

You know what to do.