Skip Hollandsworth

Dec 24, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michell Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

Dec 18, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.

Nov 20, 2019 — By Michael Hall, Skip Hollandsworth, Andy Langer, Emily McCullar, Katy Vine and Lauren Smith Ford

The stories, the traditions, and the deeper meanings of the boots in their lives.

Sep 18, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

Sep 12, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

In his plainspoken, hilariously vivid vernacular, the Texas oilman constantly spun tales about good times and bad.

Sep 6, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

He renounced his violent San Antonio childhood during 28 years behind bars. A new life and new love awaited him outside the prison gates.

Jun 25, 2019 — By Al Reinert and Skip Hollandsworth

America finds inspiration and salvation on the moon—and then keeps going.

Jun 21, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Peppard was the last of his breed, covering with panache the feuds and foibles of his city’s bold-faced names.

Apr 24, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.

Apr 5, 2019 — By Skip Hollandsworth

New insights about Redrick “Red” Batiste emerge after his accomplices are found guilty.

Dec 27, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The brother of a young cowboy lost in a 2017 Panhandle fire helped his team to a stunning victory.

Nov 18, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The president of Dallas’s Paul Quinn College serves the underserved.

Nov 12, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The wildly popular Houston author and speaker is staring down the ”sin” and ”ungodliness” in her own denomination.

Sep 14, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Now 99 years old, the legendary coach of the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens has his official place in the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Aug 30, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Notes from the Dallas courtroom where, against the odds, police officer Roy Oliver was convicted of murder after shooting the 15-year-old black boy.

Aug 23, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Texas leads the country in hot-car deaths of children. Was Michael Thedford a horrible father, or did he make a mistake any parent could make?

Jul 20, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy—“to put a smile on their faces, to give them a thrill or two.” It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

May 19, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Earlier this spring, Jeff Pike, the head of the infamous Texas-based Bandidos motorcycle club, went on trial in federal court for racketeering. Prosecutors called him a ruthless killer, the man behind one of the deadliest biker shootouts in American history at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Pike, however, said he was just a good family man. On Thursday, jurors announced their verdict.

May 11, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Originally sentenced to twenty years, the Houston dentist who ran over her cheating husband has been paroled.

Apr 18, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Beginning in 2015, Houston was plagued by a series of brutal armored car robberies that bewildered FBI agents for nearly two years. To finally bring down the unassuming mastermind behind it all, the agents had to stage an elaborate trap—and catch him in the act.

Mar 21, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The Midnight Assassin, who terrorized Austin 138 years ago, also targeted minorities first.

Feb 21, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The country music provocateur and East Texas native talks growing up, ”getting weird” onstage, and taking risks with her new album.

Sep 5, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

And yes, it has to do with global warming.

Aug 3, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

What Skip Hollandsworth learned writing this month’s cover story.

Jul 21, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

A tale of love and loss on the Plains.

Apr 19, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

A struggling community forges a life for itself against the odds.

Mar 22, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Two years after a deadly Waco shoot-out, the local district attorney is trying to take down the Bandidos and Cossacks biker clubs. It won’t be easy.

Mar 20, 2017 — By Skip Hollandsworth

He’s a billionaire. He says whatever is on his mind. He thinks he can run the country. No, it’s not Trump we’re talking about. Could Mark Cuban be our next president?

Dec 21, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. Now 37, he remains behind bars. When should a child criminal be given a second chance?

Aug 18, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

On the heels of tragedy, community policing in Dallas remains as valuable as ever.

Jun 22, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.

May 27, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?

Apr 4, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

An exclusive excerpt from The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer reveals a forgotten time in Austin history, when a series of brutal, unsolved slayings terrified officials and left them wondering if a madman was on the loose.

Jan 27, 2016 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The descendants of Richard and Henrietta King do hereby invite you into the King Ranch with these exclusive photographs of the one-hundred-year-old Main House.

Sep 30, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The district attorney of Dallas County is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. What happened?

Sep 17, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.

Aug 13, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

He’s the best defensive player in the NFL but writes his own Christmas cards. He has thousands of fans who’d love to party, but he goes to bed at seven-thirty. He could be the league’s next MVP but enjoys buying his own groceries. Is Houston’s J. J. Watt for real?

Jul 23, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Ah, NorthPark, how Dallas loves thee.

Jun 16, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

After the deadly shoot-out in Waco, what do the Bandidos want? To be left alone.

Mar 23, 2015 — By Texas Monthly and Skip Hollandsworth

When I was a teenager growing up in Wichita Falls, which is regularly hailed as one of the hottest cities in the state (and sometimes the country), I spent my summers smelling like roadkill. The moment I stepped outside my house, sweat began sliding like syrup down my back.

Feb 12, 2015 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Last summer, Theresa Roemer’s three-story closet made her the country’s most famous social climber. But she was only getting started.

Dec 15, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Skip Hollandsworth drills into the surprising (and not so surprising) fortunes of Denton’s anti-fracking ballot measure.  

Oct 21, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Olivia Lord told Dallas police officers that her boyfriend put a gun to his head after a drunken argument. Detective Dwayne Thompson couldn’t see how the evidence—or motive—made any sense. How did Michael Burnside die on May 9, 2010?

Jul 9, 2014 — By Texas Monthly and Skip Hollandsworth

University of Texas regent Wallace Hall has been accused of leading a witch hunt against UT-Austin president William Powers. But the Dallas investor insists he's doing his job. And he doesn't care what you think.

Jun 17, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

The 76-year-old Amarilloan gained international fame for funding the Cadillac Ranch art installation, which turns forty this weekend. But his legacy was tainted by sordid allegations of sexual abuse.

May 9, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Scott Catt was a single dad who held up banks to make ends meet. As his greed intensified, he knew just whom to enlist as accomplices: his kids.

May 6, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

And he'll live in Richard Linklater's garage apartment.

Apr 11, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

How did Robert Jeffress turn Dallas’s once-declining First Baptist Church into a vibrant megachurch? Certainly not by pussyfooting around.

Mar 12, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Robin Doan was ten years old when a stranger killed her entire family. Nearly ten years later, she refuses to let the past haunt her.

Jan 25, 2014 — By Skip Hollandsworth

Bernie Tiede, the Carthage man whose story of shooting the town's richest widow inspired a movie, may be walking free next week.