[5] [6] In the early 1980s, after bragging that he could crack the Hermann Estate case in one day, he "ambushed the prime suspect in a lunch meeting at the Warwick Hotel and then extracted a confession by bluffing about the scope of his investigation."
Shern Moody Jr. was found to be the guilty party and was turned over by Wilson to be investigated by Galveston and Houston prosecutors as well as the state and US Attorneys General.
[6] A few years after a high-profile Houston murder case had gone cold, Wilson used a female PI to go undercover and lure the suspect into confession.
One of Clyde Wilson's most highly publicized cases ever was won by tracking down and befriending a maid in a Hotel - Atlantic City's Trump Plaza.
[3][7] In the 1990s, he was in the middle of a political slander case that then-state representative Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, filed against a local television station.
One of Clyde Wilson's most public cases ended in adultery charges that broke up billionaire Donald Trump's marriage to his first wife, Ivana.
The health issues finally convinced Wilson that it was time to retire, which he reluctantly did, closing his office to which many people had come for help.
[3] A movie was also made on one of Wilson's cases which were basically a fact-based story of real-life detective Kim Paris who was assigned to work undercover to find the murderers of an elderly couple who were shot in their beds.