come up number one on a list when there's literally hundreds of people involved in that case and of those hundreds most of them more involved than he would have been? as far as the killing of mcclelland, that we don't know. if you have some psychopath kill hasse for whatever reason -- it could be any number of things personal or professional -- the district attorney making comments, calling the killer a scum and coming out of his hole and we're going to get you, that may have just been poking a stick in the eye of an evil person who retaliated. will. >> tom, authorities in texas are on high alert, many district attorneys and staffs are receiving escorts or protection. houston's district attorney has been put under 24-hour surveillance. how long can they keep that kind of protection up? >> i don't think very long. as i just mentioned, you're talking hundreds of people involved in this investigation, not just prosecutors but the actual investigators themselves, who would outnumber the prosecutors frankly. so i think that's a very difficult task to keep that