Jun 1, 2022 · 44 min · 13 segments
It's the 1970s in Far West Texas, and local bad boy Robert Chambers has always found his way to trouble — women, drugs, rock stars, mountain lions. And when cocaine starts flowing across the Mexican…
Rob D'AmicoHostNancy BurtonGuestSusan Woodward-SpriggsGuestLico MillerGuest
Rod PontonGuest
Melissa Del BosqueGuestBut he liked to smoke and he liked to drink and he thought smuggling all the little drugs here and there was part of the adventure itself.
That kind of amateur outlaw stuff was actually pretty common along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1980s.
Lico and his dad lived on that border, in a little village on the Mexican side called Paso Lajitas.
It was literally a stone's throw from the Rio Grande, next to an unofficial, unpatrolled crossing.
A place where you could just drive your truck through the shallow river to get to the other side.
He was worldly and kind, sometimes stepping in to teach the children when he wasn't off on some escapade.
It was a balmy spring night in March 1987, and Liko had been out all day with his brother.
When the two 15-year-olds got home, it was dark, and the boys sensed something was off.
But Liko's dad wasn't a guy who panicked, so they went to the house next door and waited.
But he liked to smoke and he liked to drink and he thought smuggling all the little drugs here and there was part of the adventure itself.
That kind of amateur outlaw stuff was actually pretty common along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1980s.
Lico and his dad lived on that border, in a little village on the Mexican side called Paso Lajitas.
It was literally a stone's throw from the Rio Grande, next to an unofficial, unpatrolled crossing.
A place where you could just drive your truck through the shallow river to get to the other side.
He was worldly and kind, sometimes stepping in to teach the children when he wasn't off on some escapade.
It was a balmy spring night in March 1987, and Liko had been out all day with his brother.
When the two 15-year-olds got home, it was dark, and the boys sensed something was off.
But Liko's dad wasn't a guy who panicked, so they went to the house next door and waited.
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