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T. Cullen Davis, a Texas oil tycoon acquitted in a 1970s murder trial, has died at 93

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DALLAS -- T. Cullen Davis, a Texas oil tycoon acquitted of murder in a shooting at his secluded Fort Worth mansion in a 1970s case featured in true-crime shows and then acquitted again in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, has died. He was 93.

Davis, who always maintained his innocence, died Friday at his home in the Fort Worth suburb of Colleyville, his son Trey Davis said Monday.

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