Editor's note: A version of this article was originally published on Dec. 13, 2018 .

Kathryn Garcia had just arrived for her Sunday morning shift in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newsroom when she took a phone call in February 2006.

At first, it sounded like a routine report that might or might not have been exaggerated, or might or might not have even been true. But when she heard the name Vice President Dick Cheney followed by something about a shooting, her attention focused fast.

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“Then I realized this was huge, so I asked her to repeat the story all over again," recalled Garcia, who now goes by her married name, Schuster.

On the phone was Katharine Armstrong, the politically connected owner

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