Shane and Sally
March 19, 2024
‘Shane and Sally,’ Episode 2: “Lost Horizons”
In this episode, friends and family remember Shane and Sally, and describe troubling warning signs in the weeks before their disappearance.
Murder
Shane and Sally
March 19, 2024
‘Shane and Sally,’ Episode 1: “A Long, Hot Summer”
In the first episode of this Texas Monthly true crime podcast, two teenagers go missing and a father goes searching for answers.
Shane and Sally
March 18, 2024
A Victim’s Father in an Infamous Cold Case Yearns to Know—Who Killed My Son?
Marshall Stewart has been searching San Angelo for 35 years, looking for answers that might never come: Who murdered his teenage son, Shane, along with his girlfriend, Sally McNelly, in 1988? And why?
True Crime
March 6, 2024
Preview: ‘Shane & Sally’ True Crime Podcast
Coming March 19—Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs investigate the cold-case murder of two San Angelo teenagers during the height of the nation’s “Satanic panic.”
Shane and Sally
March 5, 2024
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘Shane & Sally’
The 1988 murder of two San Angelo teenagers has frustrated investigators for decades. ’Shane & Sally’ picks up the cold case. Launching March 19.
Press Room
January 18, 2024
Get an Exclusive Look at an Upcoming ‘20/20’ Episode Featuring the ‘Stephenville’ True Crime Case
ABC’s ‘20/20’ will cover the Stephenville murder case this week.
True Crime
June 20, 2023
Everyone in Stephenville Thought They Knew Who Killed Susan Woods
That left the real culprit free to prey on others, including one victim who was ignored for two decades.
Stephenville
June 20, 2023
Stephenville, Episode 2: Michael
One thousand miles from Stephenville, a cloud of suspicion settles over one man.
Stephenville
June 20, 2023
Stephenville, Episode 1: Susan
In the first episode of the Texas Monthly true crime podcast, a father makes a tragic discovery, and an investigator gets to work.
Stephenville
June 13, 2023
Announcing Our New Podcast, ‘Stephenville’
A new true crime podcast from Texas Monthly, coming June 20.
Film & TV
May 25, 2023
Did Junk Science Help Candy Montgomery Get Away With Murder?
Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s ‘Love & Death.’ But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say.
Press Room
March 23, 2023
HBO Max Releases Official Trailer for ‘Love & Death’
Get a taste of what’s to come in the highly anticipated limited series.
Texas History
February 23, 2023
Inside the Decades-long Effort to Commemorate a Notorious Waco Lynching
After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.
Press Room
February 16, 2023
HBO Max Announces ‘Love & Death’ Premiere Date
HBO Max’s highly anticipated limited series is set to premiere this April. Plus, it’ll have a SXSW debut.
Politics & Policy
February 3, 2023
The Apache, the Irish Catholic Priest, and a 40-Year-Old Miscarriage of Justice
In 1983 James Reyos was convicted of murder in Odessa, despite having an airtight alibi. Four decades later, he’s still fighting to clear his name.
The Stand Up Desk
January 25, 2023
The True-Crime Classic That Inspired HBO Max’s Forthcoming ‘Love & Death’
In reporting how Candy Montgomery came to murder her lover’s wife, the authors recall trying to capture a “time and place in Texas history.”
True Crime
December 1, 2022
Who Was Robert Abel, the Former NASA Engineer Suspected in the Texas Killing Fields Murders?
A new Netflix docuseries revisits the string of murders near League City. Texas Monthly interviewed Abel in 1999.
True Crime
July 23, 2019
Crowdsourcing Justice
How does a man wrongly convicted of murder get released twenty years later? It helps to have a wife who loves you, a podcaster who believes in you, and an army of amateur sleuths who won’t stop digging for the truth.
True Crime
May 13, 2019
Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild
He called himself the Tiger King and plastered his face on highway billboards in Texas and Oklahoma. He bred big cats, bears, baboons, and more. He lived, with a parade of partners, on the grounds of his private zoo. He threatened a rival with murder—repeatedly, on YouTube—and tried to hire
News & Politics
April 19, 2019
‘Truth & Justice’ Podcast Offers $20,000 Reward for Info in Controversial Houston Murder Case
Bob Ruff is working on his fifth Texas case in fewer than four years, this time hoping to prove the innocence of Sandra Melgar in the killing of her husband, Jaime Melgar.
News & Politics
April 11, 2018
Texas Border Patrol Agent Allegedly Murdered Woman and Her One-Year Old Son
Ronald Burgos-Aviles, a nine-year Border Patrol veteran, was arrested Monday in Laredo.
True Crime
November 30, 2017
Shell-shocked
When Alberto Mendiola returned to El Paso from the war in Afghanistan, he was suffering from severe, untreated PTSD. But is that a viable defense for murder?
True Crime
July 13, 2016
The Murders at the Lake
In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.
The Daily Post
March 10, 2015
2015 Has Been an Ugly Year for the Treatment of Muslims in Texas
We’re not even a quarter of the way through 2015 yet, and mosques have been burned, loyalty oaths have been demanded, and—in Dallas last week—a Muslim man was shot in the back while watching the snow fall.
The Culture
November 12, 2014
Texarkana Murder Mystery
Nearly seventy years later, the infamous Phantom Killer attacks may finally be solved. But Texarkana remains as puzzling as ever.
The Daily Post
May 27, 2014
A Murder Suspect in San Marcos Received Exonerating Evidence Four Days into His Trial
The video proving that Brelyn Sorrells acted in self-defense the night he fatally stabbed another man had been sitting in the prosecution's office for fifteen months.
Travel & Outdoors
March 7, 2014
¿Viva Terlingua?
A frontier town copes with a murder’s aftermath.
True Crime
February 11, 2014
A Question of Mercy
In 1998 famously tough Montague County district attorney Tim Cole sent a teenager to prison for life for his part in a brutal murder. The punishment haunts him to this day.
Crime
April 1, 2013
The Unresolved Murders of Texas Prosecutors
A Texas district attorney and his wife were found dead at their home, gunned down by unknown assailants, less than two months after an Assistant DA in the same office was shot outside the courthouse. There are no conclusive suspects, but the signs are pointing towards gang violence.
Longreads
February 12, 2013
Trouble in Mind
Andre Thomas is deeply mentally ill. He is also a vicious murderer. How should he be punished?
January 21, 2013
Texas Executes Thirteenth Man of 2012
Mario Swain, convicted of the murder of a Longview woman, had a history of stalking and assault.
January 21, 2013
When Good Nurses Go Bad
If Verna McClain is found guilty, she will join the ranks of three other killer nurses from Texas.
January 21, 2013
Disturbing New Details Emerge About Man Arrested in Family’s Murder
Trey Sesler, an online anime critic from Waller, is said to have been planning a Columbine-style attack on a local high school.
January 21, 2013
“Mr. Anime is Planning Something”
Did YouTube star Trey Sesler kill his family?
Border & Immigration
January 21, 2013
Depressing New Documentary about Juárez Plays in Texas
The film 8 Murders a Day focuses on El Paso's sister city, which has seen 10,000 drug war-related murders since 2007.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
Free Richard Lafuente!
They say he ran over Eddie Peltier with his El Camino on a North Dakota Indian reservation in 1983. He says he didn’t do it, and the evidence is overwhelmingly on his side—yet the Plainview native has languished in federal prison for twenty years. It’s long past time for justice
Web Exclusive
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Michael Hall
The senior editor on writing about Mary Eula Sears, talking to relatives of the deceased, and dealing with sensitive issues.
True Crime
January 20, 2013
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?
True Crime
January 20, 2013
Her Dark Places
Andrea Yates was a quiet, attentive mother with a generous smile who made her kids costumes from grocery sacks and gave them Valentine’s promising “free hugs.” We all know what happened next, but we may never know why.
True Crime
January 20, 2013
“There Is No Law”
Gangland-style executions are par for the course these days in Juárez, where drugs— and despair—flow freely.
Feature
January 20, 2013
Flesh and Blood
The most shocking thing about the murder of the Caffey family in East Texas last year was not how gruesome or inexplicable the crime was. It was that it was masterminded by sixteen-year-old Erin Caffey, a pretty girl who worked at the Sonic, sang in her church, and loved her
November 19, 2012
Southwestern Grad Murdered by Her Own Prayer Group?
27-year-old was suffocated after months of allegedly being raped, at her husband's urging, by members of the prayer group he founded in Georgetown.
May 16, 2012
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
The Columbia University Human Rights Law Review published a 400-page investigative article that alleges that in 1989, Texas executed the wrong man for a 1983 murder.
March 8, 2012
Revolutionary Corpse Research at Texas State Body Farm
A study conducted by Texas State University researchers involving vultures and human remains could have big implications for homicide investigators.
January 18, 2012
Another NASA Love Triangle?
A former NASA contractor allegedly killed her Air Force Colonel husband's mistress after learning of the affair.
Business
December 2, 2011
Drop in Juárez Murder Rate Is Bad for Funeral Business
The El Paso Times reported that as Juárez’s murder rate drops, funeral homes suffer, a story that elicited horrified reactions from the community.
Hollywood, TX
December 1, 2011
Perfect Execution
Into the Abyss dives deep into the death penalty debate.
True Crime
November 1, 2011
Who Killed Mary Eula Sears?
In 1982 a man named Wayne East was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of one of Abilene’s most prominent citizens. To this day, he maintains his innocence. And one member of the victim’s family believes him.
True Crime
January 1, 2011
Rich Man, Poor Man
The tragic culture clash that led to the murder of a governor’s son.
Web Exclusive
October 31, 2010
Angels and Devils
CBS’s 48 Hours fills in the final chapters of the notorious Matt Baker.