Dear owned the firm William C. Dear & Associates. His notable cases included the original "steam tunnel incident" involving
James Dallas Egbert III, the murder of millionaire businessman
Dean Milo in 1980, the exhumation of
Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981 and the Glen Courson murder case in 1986. Television work included being an investigator on
Alien Autopsy, a 1995
Fox Television program about an
autopsy supposedly carried out on an
extraterrestrial being. Dear was later featured in the 2000 BBC Documentary
OJ: The Untold Story. Dear was a candidate for
Governor of Texas in the 2010
Texas Democratic Primary. Dear died on July 5, 2024, at the age of 86. ==Books==