It's even more of a coincidence Slaughter arrest was Friday, April 15, and MB was murdered sunday/Monday April 18. Wonder how LE got on their tails and/or if MB played a part in it or if they thought she did. Jones is pretty short and stocky it appears IMO.
Could this be why BB was concerned about her safety? Was he aware she was involved in turning in dirty cops IF she did?
No, nobody needed to turn the first cop (Slaughter) in; he burned himself. He flubbed badly by trying to pawn locally the ECSO property room guns which were involved in a still-open burglary investigation, and so he was arrested within days of their opening an investigation on him:
The investigation began in April when the Ennis Police Department contacted the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office to inform them an officer had recovered a Colt revolver at Ennis Pawn that had been reported stolen by the ECSO, according to an arrest warrant.
The name on the pawn receipt was Philip Gary Slaughter II, according to the warrant, who had also pawned two additional firearms on April 5.
Slaughter resigned from the ECSO on March 28, 2016 as the Criminal Investigations Division Lieutenant, records show.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Two-Ellis-Co-Deputies-Pawned-Stolen-Guns-Warrant-378226161.html
Slaughter was arrested April 15. Once the ECSO realized Slaughter was involved, they asked the Texas Rangers to take over the investigation (investigating corruption is a big part of what they do). The Texas Rangers quickly discovered Slaughter's co-conspirator, Thomas Glen Smith, and arrested him on May 3.
So Missy didn't need to rat out anyone concerning stolen guns - the system set in place to recover stolen property when pawned did so. Why two people familiar with the system thought they could get away with this is curious, but that's besides the point. These two sealed their own fate - the guns came up as stolen property when pawned, and the pawn ticket had the first cop's name on it.
If Missy was targeted or killed for something she knew, I believe it was
peripheral to the stolen guns. If she discovered illegal sales, it was far more likely, given her circles, that she would have discovered something about illegal steroid selling than any stolen ECSO property room guns.
Normally such a revelation wouldn't be seen as dangerous knowledge. **But if that steroid use and selling was also tied in to stolen property room evidence (eg. steroids stored in the ECSO property room as evidence in drug busts), THEN her leaking that sort of illegal drug activity info might open up a dirty-cop can of worms about the stolen guns as well - a domino-effect.
Philip Gary Slaughter was in charge of the property room from October 2015 to November 2015. A search executed on his mobile home unearthed 17 guns as well as illegal steroids. If Slaughter and the other dirty cop (Smith) didn't see their arrest coming regarding the pawned guns, but discovered in April that someone had discovered illegal steroid use by one of their clients and was wrestling with reporting it, they (and whoever else might also be involved) might have serious incentive to shut her up - IF such a drug revelation would open up a more widespread LE and/or community leadership corruption in Ellis County, end their careers, send them to prison, and destroy their families' lives. Convicted cops do not fare well in prison.
The Texas Rangers' investigation into all this is still ongoing.
JMO, as usual.