City Confidential: Paradise Valley - Showdown in the High Desert on AllMovie

Hunted by law enforcement and romanticized by the media, Claude Dallas was the embodiment of the loner mountainman. In 1981, he killed two game wardens that tried to apprehend him for illegal poaching. Even though Dallas shot them both in the back of the head, he pleaded self-defense. The trial was an exercise in image manipulation. A fan club called the "Dallas Cheerleaders" set up camp and the murderer himself cut a sympathetic figure of American ruggedness. City Confidential: Paradise Valley -- Showdown in the High Desert paints a picture of a small cowboy town torn asunder by one man's outlaw sensibility.