Crime
333 stories
Minor Emergency »
Drug gangs in Mexico are increasingly turning to American teenagers to smuggle their loads across the border. What can be done?
August 2011 by P. J. Tobia
The Worst Hard Time »
My hometown of Cleveland has become the most disgraced community in America because of a brutal, unspeakable crime that has set everyone against one another.
July 2011 by Jan Jarboe Russell
An Absolute Honest-to-God Texas Frame-up »
The “Mineola Swingers Club” cases come to a disgraceful end.
June 2011 by Michael Hall
Little Hope »
A Q&A with Pamela Colloff.
May 2011 Interview by Layne Lynch
48 Hours Mystery presents "Grave Injustice"
Sixteen years after Anthony Graves was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, students helped to set him free. Richard Schlesinger, a correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery, reports on the case this Saturday, April 23, at 9 p.m. (CST). Watch the first two minutes here.
May 2011
Church Burners »
Why did two Baptist boys 
from East Texas set fire to 
ten churches across three counties last year?
May 2011 by Pamela Colloff
The Houston Mass Murders: What Really Happened »
A conversation with Skip Hollandsworth, author of “The Lost Boys.”
April 2011 Interview by Austin Kurth
Latest News on the Corll Investigation »
Researchers have discovered a mistaken identity and another possible victim.
April 2011 by Skip Hollandsworth
On the Border
NPR correspondent John Burnett talks about the Gulf cartel and what it's like to be a journalist in Matamoros. Camera by Brian Birzer
April 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Dead Line »
As the Mexican drug cartels have waged war along the border, they have also developed a disciplined approach to managing the press.
April 2011 by John Burnett
The Lost Boys »
It was the most shocking crime of its day, 27 boys from the same part of town kidnapped, tortured, and killed by an affable neighbor named Dean Corll. Forty years later, it remains one of the least understood—or talked about—chapters in Houston's history. And for the families who still hope against hope to see their sons and brothers again, the agony endures.
April 2011 by Skip Hollandsworth
A Closer Look at One of Dean Corll’s Victims »
Dorothy Hilligiest's son David disappeared one day on the way to a neighborhood swimming pool in 1971. Like a few other Houston mothers during that time, she wondered what had happened to him, refusing to believe that he had run off to experience life. She spent her days and nights searching for him, following leads, and eagerly awaiting his return. But he didn't come home. And then she found out about Dean Corll, one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history.
April 2011 by Skip Hollandsworth
A Lost Boys Slide Show
In December 1970 two teenage boys disappeared from the Heights neighborhood in Houston. Then another and another and another. A slide show of images from the state's most horrific mass murder.
April 2011
Ghost Town »
Inside the vicious cartel war in northern Mexico—and one family’s struggle to survive.
February 2011 by Cecilia Ballí
Innocence Found »
Anthony Graves had been behind bars for eighteen years when the prosecutors in his case abruptly dropped all charges and set him free. How did it happen? What happens next?
January 2011 by Pamela Colloff
Rich Man, Poor Man »
The tragic culture clash that led to the murder of a governor’s son.
January 2011 by Skip Hollandsworth
Life After Death »
It’s time to halt executions in Texas.
January 2011 by Michael Hall
A Free Man
Anthony Graves talks about his case, his family, and his life after prison.
January 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Justice Is Served
Listen to senior editor Pamela Colloff discuss the release of Anthony Graves with KRLD's Mitch Carr and Scott Braddock.
November 2010
Anthony Graves Press Conference
October 28, 2010, in Houston at the law offices of Katherine Scardino, Graves's defense attorney.
November 2010 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Angels and Devils »
CBS’s 48 Hours fills in the final chapters of the notorious Matt Baker.
November 2010 by Skip Hollandsworth
Spill Way »
When people ask me if cartel violence will find its way into Texas, I tell them it already has—and it’s going to get worse.
October 2010 by Michael Lauderdale
Reasonable Doubt
View a short documentary on the controversial case of Anthony Graves, who has spent the past eighteen years behind bars.
October 2010 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Innocence Lost »
Anthony Graves has spent the past eighteen years behind bars—twelve of them on death row—for a grisly 1992 murder. There was no plausible motive nor any physical evidence to connect him to the crime, and the only witness against him repeatedly recanted his testimony. Yet he remains locked up. Did the system fail?
October 2010 by Pamela Colloff
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