The Stand Up Desk
January 26, 2023
An Unforgettable Texas Tale of Envy, Embezzlement, and Fruitcake
The writer of an oddball 2016 crime story recalls emailing with an accountant who skimmed $17 million from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery.
Weird Crime
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: August through October
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: August through October
From drunk landlords to "sexually-oriented games," the people of Decatur are intent on keeping Wise weird.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter: May through July
We return to Wise county, home to crime of all stripes, from tip jar theft to assaulting your father on Father's Day.
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Denton Record-Chronicle’s Police Blotter
Denton's criminal activity may be just as strange as that of Lufkin and Wise County.
January 21, 2013
Dallas County Teenager Attempts to Rob Police Station
Eighteen-year-old Keithan Kennard Manuel says that he was joking when he told Wilmer's police dispatcher, "Give me all your money."
January 21, 2013
Highlights from the Wise County Messenger’s Police Blotter
In which the TM Daily Post is accused of fixating on Lufkin and overlooking the weirdness of the Wise County Messenger's police blotter.