James Fulton has been putting up billboards in a field that sits beside the 1-10 freeway as it cuts through Vidor, Texas, on its way from Los Angeles to Florida for nearly 30 years. Until the case is concluded and the killer 'put in the pen for a few years', Fulton, now 86, says the billboards will stay – 'until I die if they have to'īy Ruth Styles In Vidor, Texas For.Fulton is now down to a single sign but his original three said – 'Vidor Police Botched Up The Case', 'Waiting For Confession', 'This Could Happen To You'.Fulton believes her estranged husband Steve Page is guilty and he was found liable for her death in a 2000 civil trial and remains the prime suspect, cops said.Fulton's charging billboards serve as the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri starring Frances McDormand.Her father James Fulton has been putting up billboards since then, slamming the local police department for their incompetence in the handling of the case.Kathy Page, 34, was raped and strangled to death in 1991 in Vidor, Texas, and the mother-of-two's murder has gone without a criminal trial since.EXCLUSIVE: Real-life story of the father who inspired the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards with his messages to the 'corrupt' police who 'botched' the case of his raped and strangled daughter (and it's not in Missouri)
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