Inside the Episode: Bonus Video for ‘Shane and Sally’ Episode 7
As the podcast series comes to a close, hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs reflect on what we’ve learned.
As the podcast series comes to a close, hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs reflect on what we’ve learned.
A series of unsolved attacks presents a new theory, and investigators weigh the possibility of police involvement.
Hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs discuss a mysterious piece of evidence from the crime scene.
We hear from the last of the main suspects in the case, Heath Davis, who was known in the eighties as one of the toughest guys in San Angelo.
Hosts Karen Jacobs and Rob D’Amico dig further into the suspect list, which leads them all the way to the Philippines.
The investigation heads to the Philippines in search of Jimmy Burnett, a major suspect who evaded authorities for years.
Hosts Rob D’Amico and Karen Jacobs examine a key suspect and discuss the challenge of reporting on individuals connected to the murder investigation.
A rumored satanic “high priest,” and a teenager who seemed to know too much about the events at the lake, become suspects in the murder investigation.
Investigators walk through their initial work after Shane and Sally went missing, and their ongoing search for clues after 35 years.
Learn more about the case with original videos, archival photos, and documents from our reporting.
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In this episode, friends and family remember Shane and Sally, and describe troubling warning signs in the weeks before their disappearance.
In the first episode of this Texas Monthly true crime podcast, two teenagers go missing and a father goes searching for answers.
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?
Executive editor Michael Hall has reported on many exonerations over the years, but nothing compares to the story of Estella Ybarra and Carlos Jaile.
She was pressured into convicting a man she believed was innocent—and was haunted by remorse. Three decades later, she did something about it.
A self-described lifelong Republican voter, Sheila Foster accuses the governor of playing politics over the murder of her son, Garrett, at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
Thanks to hundreds of DNA exonerations, experts now know false confessions are common. That wasn’t the case in the nineties in Texas.
He’s one of the first faith-based coordinators for Texas inmates facing the death penalty. He’s scheduled to be executed this week.
On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared the 67-year-old Native American innocent of a 1981 murder.
Robert Roberson is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to examine “shaken baby syndrome” and the state of forensic science.
Delays in dispatching the alert system mean that some children fall between the cracks.
We keep putting convicts away. And lawmakers want those numbers to rise.
The new grandmother, in need of a new kidney, says all she wants is a normal life.
The second teen has pleaded to criminal mischief charges. Both face two years of probation.
On the series finale, a killer builds his new life on borrowed time, and people in Stephenville must confront a difficult truth.
In his own words, the man who killed Susan Woods looks back on the choices he says led him to become a "monster."
A 16-year-old assault survivor tells investigators of her attacker's chilling confession.
Armed with new forensic technology, Don Miller takes up the case and gets a break — one that raises even more questions about what happened to Susan Woods.
One thousand miles from Stephenville, a cloud of suspicion settles over one man.
In the first episode of the Texas Monthly true crime podcast, a father makes a tragic discovery, and an investigator gets to work.
Executive editor Michael Hall’s piece on the Fifth Circuit was nominated for the prestigious award back in March.
Host Nancy Miller sits down with Elizabeth Olsen in the final episode of the series to take a deeper look at who Candy Montgomery was in the aftermath of her trial.
In Fort Worth, true crime–obsessed citizen detectives have banded together to dig up new evidence for their pet cases.
Governor Greg Abbott wants to overrule a jury’s conviction of Daniel Perry, who murdered a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
After 28 men and women died in custody last year, officials are throwing money at the overcrowded facility. Advocates for inmates say reforms are needed.
Those in the office that prosecuted him agree the soft-spoken Native American did not murder a priest back in 1981. His case is back before a district court judge.
Two bipartisan bills would make it easier for judges to incarcerate defendants before trial. Criminologists say that’s bad for public safety.
A bill would require that detention centers house kids based on the sex listed on their birth certificates, contradicting federal guidelines.
For many women inside Texas prisons, a crumb of color—such as a red ribbon or a floral postage stamp—is against the rules, but worth the potential risk.
Decades before the recent police violence in Memphis, a brutally beaten Latino man was tossed by officers into a Houston bayou and drowned. The protests that followed continue to echo in the city to this day.
The cofounder of the Innocence Project of Texas set a model for working with state agencies to investigate potential wrongful convictions.
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 writer of an oddball 2016 crime story recalls emailing with an accountant who skimmed $17 million from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery.
Texas’s elite police agency has evolved from a frontier organization to one famed for its expert interrogators. But some high-profile cases have tarnished that reputation.
After what’s been deemed “the year of the botched execution,” Texas should end the practice.
The career criminal was found dead after a two-day manhunt in East Texas. A writer recalls reporting on the circumstances of Haynes’s death.
Ortiz was found guilty of capital murder this week. In 2019, Texas Monthly reported on the string of murders targeting sex workers in Laredo.
The Munns became a national curiosity after five of them were indicted for participating in the insurrection. But the full scope of their malignant behavior is little known—including to the federal prosecutors tasked with investigating their crimes.
Pamela Colloff reflects on her 2010 story about the shoddy police work and prosecutorial misconduct that put an innocent man on death row.