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But obviously the murder of three very high ranking law enforcement officials in the span of three months is a pretty chilling development for u.s. law enforcement. >> and of course the alleged killer of the prison chief in colorado was found in texas. >> right. and that will be something they will be looking at as what were his connections in texas. and also how long he's been out of prison, the last four years since being released from the colorado system, what's he been up to, who has he been with, what organizations may he have been associated with that may have led to this. and again, it'...

Taken by shock, fear, by what's happened here. so what we're finding now obviously there will be extra security at the courthouse as it opens today. and even public officials, carol, they're not taking chances. we know for instance in houston, texas, harris county, mike anderson, the d.a. there, he has taken an officer from the sheriff's office to have round the clock security to watch him and his family. one example of how public officials are not taking a chance here in the case that public officials are being targeted. >> unbelievable. george howell, many thanks. a former fbi assistant dire...

Whenever i would get mad i would get in trouble because i was bigger. >> you are live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. thank you so much for being with us. i'm carol costello. security is tight, nerves are frayed and a man hunt grows. a produce cuter is find murdered. district attorney mike mclelland and his wife cynthia were found shot and killed. investigators work to figure if there is a connection between the killings of mclelland and hasse. they are looking for links with the colorado prison chief murder last month. i spoke with former fbi assistant director. >> it is hard to tell w...

Supremacist groups briefly a couple of weeks ago when there was a murder of a prison chief in colorado, and the suspect in this case that was later killed by police was linked to a white sue preliminar supremacist group inside a prison and he was chased to texas from colorado essentially. we are seeing a picture of the suspect who is now dead on the screen. and there's been some questions raised about what the possible connection could be between the murder in colorado and this in texas. how would you go about even investigating that, jeff? >> again, it goes back to that original source, altho...

Colorado was connected to a white supremacist gang. why would a white supremacist gang target prosecutors or a prison chief? >> it's hard to tell what motivated him to do that. it's been reported that he made threats against various prison guards during his stay in the prison system in colorado. so it could have been in connection with that. or it could have been -- it could be unrelated to that. we just don't know at this point. and obviously with him dead, we probably may not ever know what the true motivation was to pick clements himself, the director of connections, as opposed to one of th...