# Texas oil tycoon Cullen Davis, acquitted in shootings, dies aged 93

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/colorful-texas-oil-tycoon-who-once-stood-trial-for-murdering-his-stepdaughter-and-whose-wife-had-live-in-lover-dies-aged-93/
- Published: 2026-11-10T17:11:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T17:43:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16281181/Colorful-Texas-oil-tycoon-trial-stepdaughter-dies-93.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Texas oil tycoon Cullen Davis has died aged 93.
- He was acquitted in the 1977 murder trial.
- A later alleged murder plot also led to no prison sentence.

## Summary

Texas oil tycoon Cullen Davis, acquitted in the 1977 murder trial over the deaths of his stepdaughter and another man, has died aged 93. The case drew national attention because of the family’s wealth, the shootings at Davis’s mansion and the dramatic allegations against him.

In August 1976, 12-year-old Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr, the boyfriend of Davis’s former wife Priscilla, were killed; Priscilla and another witness survived being shot. Davis’s first trial ended in a mistrial, and a jury acquitted him at the second. He was later arrested over an alleged plot to kill 15 people, but was not imprisoned; he maintained his innocence. His family said he died at home on 6 November 2026.

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