One of the victims, newspaper columnist Orel Zambrano, was killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle in January 2009 after writing about drugs cases where the Makled family had been implicated.
Their ranks include former star pitcher Orel Hershiser, the venerable TV host Art Linkletter, former U.S. Senator Zell Miller of Georgia and former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore--the jurist who was removed for refusing to dismantle a courthouse monument to the Ten Commandments.