The March 24 raids occurred as federal agents in Chicago and Fort Worth questioned other individuals about the O'Hair case and about the coincidental disappearance of a Florida man named Danny Fry. O'Hair rose to prominence more than three decades ago in the wake of federal court battles to remove prayer and Bible reading from public schools. In recent years, she ran a cluster of atheist organizations in Austin with two of her adult children. Fry came to Austin in midsummer 1995, and like the O'Hairs, spent September in San Antonio. Abundant circumstantial evidence, including phone and financial records, suggests the two cases are related.
Waters also is a common link.
He was the O'Hairs' former office manager in 1994. He knew Fry in Florida years earlier. Family members say Waters induced Fry to come to Texas for a mysterious big money deal in mid-1995. Waters denies knowing anything about the O'Hair disappearance or Fry's death. Waters also has apparent links to Karr, having served eight months in the same Illinois prison during the mid-1980s.