Jun 1, 2022 · 43 min · 16 segments
As law enforcement starts to sniff around, Robert steps into the shoes of a legendary drug lord. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rob D'AmicoHost
Getting shot, rolling his car, having the nurse charged with his care be the wife of a suspect, it didn't deter Dan.
And he didn't need a sharp eye for detail to be alerted to the presence of a potential target, Robert Chambers.
People were looking at Robert long before he ever got there because it's the kind of time everybody knows everybody.
I mean, he'd probably been out with every single woman in the town and probably more than five or ten
Dan quickly noticed where Chambers was living, a ranch of sorts just south of Alpine.
And even from the highway, you could see that Robert was making some pretty expensive additions to his land.
The word around town was that Robert had grand plans for a huge horse barn, then a racetrack, plus a nice house to top it all off.
He was going to build a house shaped like a pyramid, flattened off the top of a hill out there.
A
house shaped like a pyramid? Compared to ranches struggling just to get hay feed to their cattle, this stuck out big time.
You know, you'd question anything like that because the guy didn't have a job, so the money's coming from somewhere.
By the time Dan Dobbs first arrived in town, 1987, it was a full seven years since Nancy Burton had first seen Robert go toe-to-toe with the drug lord Pablo Acosta, the Onaga Fox.
As Dan continued to show his face around Alpine, he started to hear lots of those stories about Robert's past.
You know, they liked him, they respected him, or stayed away from him.
At the bar down there, I mean, some of the police crossed the border down there onto our side, and they were in the bar, and they started giving the gal that worked at the bar a hard time.
They forced her to get up on the bar and you know, take her clothes off and dance for him.
And he walked in one day when that was going on and he put a big stop to that.
So all the locals that were in there and the gal kind of was a good thing.
You know, you need to come around here more often.
Getting shot, rolling his car, having the nurse charged with his care be the wife of a suspect, it didn't deter Dan.
And he didn't need a sharp eye for detail to be alerted to the presence of a potential target, Robert Chambers.
People were looking at Robert long before he ever got there because it's the kind of time everybody knows everybody.
I mean, he'd probably been out with every single woman in the town and probably more than five or ten
Dan quickly noticed where Chambers was living, a ranch of sorts just south of Alpine.
And even from the highway, you could see that Robert was making some pretty expensive additions to his land.
The word around town was that Robert had grand plans for a huge horse barn, then a racetrack, plus a nice house to top it all off.
He was going to build a house shaped like a pyramid, flattened off the top of a hill out there.
A
house shaped like a pyramid? Compared to ranches struggling just to get hay feed to their cattle, this stuck out big time.
You know, you'd question anything like that because the guy didn't have a job, so the money's coming from somewhere.
By the time Dan Dobbs first arrived in town, 1987, it was a full seven years since Nancy Burton had first seen Robert go toe-to-toe with the drug lord Pablo Acosta, the Onaga Fox.
As Dan continued to show his face around Alpine, he started to hear lots of those stories about Robert's past.
You know, they liked him, they respected him, or stayed away from him.
At the bar down there, I mean, some of the police crossed the border down there onto our side, and they were in the bar, and they started giving the gal that worked at the bar a hard time.
They forced her to get up on the bar and you know, take her clothes off and dance for him.
And he walked in one day when that was going on and he put a big stop to that.
So all the locals that were in there and the gal kind of was a good thing.
You know, you need to come around here more often.
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