Cade's County/Slay Ride (1)

Slay Ride (1)
Season 1, Episode 16
Airdate	January 30, 1972
Written by	Anthony Wilson & Rick Husky
Directed by	Robert Day
Produced by	Charles Larson
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Cade's County — Season One

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Slay Ride (1) is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Cade's County.

Starring: Glenn Ford (Sheriff Sam Cade)

Also Starring: Edgar Buchanan (Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson)

Guest Stars: Tony Bill (Willie Ball), John Schuck (Luke Edwards)

Special Guest Star: Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Ed Kaproski)

Taylor Lacher (Arlo Pritchard), Victor Campos (Rudy Davillo), Mark Jenkins (George Traven)

Dehl Berti (David Aguilas), Anne Seymour (Judge Tanner)

and Bernie Casey (Patrick)

Betty Ann Carr (Betty Ann Sundown), Peter Ford (Pete), Harry Lauter (Ben Houghton), Mario Machado (Al), Buck Young (1st Newscaster), Sam Chew (Stephen Roy Evans), Pedro Regas (Neh-esh-zhay), Jill Banner (Melanie)

and Douglas V. Fowley (Obie Benteen)

with Leslie Parrish (Jana Gantry)

Plot Overview

A car accident has two casualties: the driver, who's a prominent local businessman, dies from injuries sustained in the accident, but his passenger, the daughter of the town's mayor, was strangled to death with a set of Indian friendship beads. Sam recognizes the beads at the crime scene and immediately suspects young Indian Willie Ball of the murder. Willie readily confesses to the crime, but the Sheriff knows him all too well and suspects that he's confessing only to get an audience for his platform on Indian rights. Things get more complicated with the arrival of a visitor in town, a Chicago homicide detective who's investigating a series of similar 'love bead' strangulations. Willie confesses to those murders as well, and Cade appeals to the visiting cop for more time to gain evidence that will clear the young Indian.