GUILTY TX - Walter 'Trey' Sands, 28, Alpine, 31 October 2014

A helicopter search is set for Wednesday in West Texas, more than a month after a former East Texas coach went missing.

Brewster County Sheriff's officials say that former Kilgore ISD coach Trey Sands went missing November 1 while on a hunting trip in Alpine, Texas. That's about 80 miles from the Texas-Mexico border...

"My brother went hunting with a co-worker and he didn't come back, but the co-worker did," Kara Sands said.

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dodie20 said:

from the facebook posts I've been reading, they found his dog yesterday, and are actively looking in that area for Trey. oh my goodness, my daughter woke me up this morning with the news that Trey is missing. She went to college with him and considers him a friend. We watched him play football and he was the guy that all the girls were just crazy about. My daughter and a friend had a class with him, and my daughter wrote a little story about the antics that the girls went through to get his attention. I know his family has to be worried sick and are desperate for some answers. From what I've read about the circumstances, this looks bad...

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iluvmua said:

Is the dog OK?

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Family members say deputies found Trey Sands' dog, Gauge, on Wednesday. They say Gauge is doing well...

"Finding Gauge was bittersweet," says Kara Sands, "We love having Gauge with us, but we know that Trey would never have left him."

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A third suspect has been taken into custody Thursday in connection with the death of a Kilgore man. Charles Levi Morrow was picked up inside Stanton city limits by the chief of police about 12:30 p.m...

Trey's parents said they reached out to officials there after he stopped responding. "They called the sheriff's department and they were told by a deputy that he was fine and he was living on a ranch," Kara Sands said...

"The guy he went hunting with said that he stayed down there with some girl. He had ridden down with this person, so Trey left his truck at home," she said. "They found his truck at someone's house and they found some personal items of Trey's." One of those items was a Bible she gave her brother in 2008.

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Dodson says Sands was staying with a friend in Terlingua and allegedly had an altercation with the suspects. Investigators want to know what sparked the argument...

Dodson says McWilliams on Wednesday led him to the body...

Brewster County Sheriff Ronnie Dodson told CBS 7 that investigators believe Sands died from a gunshot wound.

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knowi said:

Sister's FB post says they found his body. So sad.

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meggers said:

I've been trying for ages to figure out how to quote someone's post in my reply with no luck, but I want to say one thing that REALLY bothers me is that a news source reported that when Trey's family called to report him missing they were told he was "fine" and "living on a ranch"...

I understand and respect that at times it is necessary for law enforcement to keep things quiet, but something about this is off to me. The public isn't supposed to know everything but something is weird when LE are telling the family reporting the missing person that "he's fine." I do not like that.

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District Attorney Rod Ponton said there was nothing new on the latest murder case, the Halloween death of former Kilgore High School football coach Walter “Trey” Sands III, whose body was found in a remote area of Terlingua Ranch this month after being reported missing for more than a month...

Keith Allen McWilliams, 49, of Alpine and Rhonda Joy Bloom, 42, of Terlingua, were arrested before the body was found. Sheriff Ronny Dodson said McWilliams confessed to the murder and took the sheriff to the body under some rocks in the Cedar Springs area of the development, more than 10 miles from the residence where the shooting allegedly occurred. Dodson said Bloom was house sitting at the murder scene. Charles Levy Morrow, 30, of Benbrook was arrested in Stanton later that same week and was returned to Alpine.

Ponton said his office was awaiting autopsy and other laboratory reports before proceeding.

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A Brewster County grand jury has returned eight indictments, including three for the Halloween murder of a former Kilgore High School football coach.

Keith Allen McWilliams, 49, of Alpine, Rhonda Joy Bloom, 42, of Terlingua and Charles Levi Morrow of, 30, of Benbrook are accused of “intentionally and knowingly” causing the death of Walter Cayce “Trey” Sands III by shooting, stabbing him with a knife or by hitting him with a “board or other object which in the mean and manner of its use constituted a deadly weapon.”

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On July 10, McWilliams’ defense team secured a continuation of his pretrial hearing and plea deadline until Sept. 18. Last month Morrow was presented with a new plea bargain on June 15 and his court date was rescheduled to July 17.

On Friday, Brewster County District Attorney Rod Ponton confirmed Morrow is scheduled for trial Oct. 26.

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According to Brewster County District Attorney Rod Ponton, Bloom pleaded not guilty to the charge. Her case was dismissed on June 18...

McWilliams' trial is set for Jan. 25. Morrow's trial is set for Feb. 22.

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