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The Reporter Who Infiltrated The Chicken Ranch for Marvin Zindler -
Famous Houston Investigative reporter Marvin Zindler, right, never set foot inside The Chicken Ranch. That job went to Larry Conners, left, then a young journalist then, but now a veteran newsman in St. Louis.
Fifty years ago this summer, Houston’s KTRK Channel 13 sent an undercover news crew to infiltrate La Grange’s Chicken Ranch. The flamboyant newsman Marvin Zinder later presented the story on television and forever cemented his legacy to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
But Zindler, who died in 2007, never stepped a foot inside the Chicken Ranch as far as anyone knows. That job went to Larry…
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