Paul Motard

My first "official" foray into the world of Criminal Justice was my Junior year at Texas A&M when I got an academic internship at the Brazos County District Attorney's Office in April of 1994. I started working there after my dad had happened to bump into Bill Turner, the elected D.A. back then, and told him that I was really interested in becoming a prosecutor. Bill offered me an internship with the office and put me under the supervision of his one and only D.A. Investigator, retired HPD Homicide investigator Gil Schultz. For the next two and a half years (right up until I left to go to law school in Houston), I worked for Bill and Gil. Gil became like a second dad to me and he took me to crime scenes, autopsies, witness interviews, and trials. He told me war stories about his days with HPD -- a career where he served ten years in patrol before serving sixteen in homicide. Whenever Gil talked about his days in Homicide, he would talk about his old partner,