True Crime
March 22, 2017
The Wild Bunch
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.
302 Articles
Politics & Policy
March 20, 2017
Cuban Revolution
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?
True Crime
December 21, 2016
The Prisoner
Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. Now 37, he remains behind bars. When should a child criminal be given a second chance?
News & Politics
August 18, 2016
A Different Beat
On the heels of tragedy, community policing in Dallas remains as valuable as ever.
Books
June 22, 2016
The Minor Regional Novelist
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.
Film & TV
May 27, 2016
Bernie in Hell
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
Arts & Entertainment
April 4, 2016
Murders in the Night
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.
Texas History
January 27, 2016
The King’s Palace
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.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 2015
The Trials of Susan Hawk
The district attorney of Dallas County is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. What happened?
Art
September 17, 2015
How the West Was Shot
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
Sports
August 13, 2015
Mega Watt
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?
The Culture
July 23, 2015
The Cream of the Shop
Ah, NorthPark, how Dallas loves thee.
The Culture
June 16, 2015
Gang Land
After the deadly shoot-out in Waco, what do the Bandidos want? To be left alone.
The Culture
March 23, 2015
How to Survive the Summer
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.
The Culture
February 12, 2015
The Ultimate Real Housewife of Houston
Last summer, Theresa Roemer’s three-story closet made her the country’s most famous social climber. But she was only getting started.
Politics & Policy
December 15, 2014
Tilting at Gas Wells
Skip Hollandsworth drills into the surprising (and not so surprising) fortunes of Denton’s anti-fracking ballot measure.
True Crime
October 21, 2014
A Shooting on Spring Grove Avenue
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?
Politics & Policy
July 9, 2014
Is This the Most Dangerous Man in Texas?
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.
Art
June 17, 2014
Stanley Marsh 3, the Infamous West Texas Eccentric, Has Died
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.
True Crime
May 9, 2014
“I Would Only Rob Banks for My Family”
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.
Can't Make This Up
May 6, 2014
Bernie Has Been Released From Prison
And he'll live in Richard Linklater's garage apartment.
The Culture
April 11, 2014
Answering the Call
How did Robert Jeffress turn Dallas’s once-declining First Baptist Church into a vibrant megachurch? Certainly not by pussyfooting around.
True Crime
March 12, 2014
The Girl Who Saw Too Much
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.
Update
January 25, 2014
Bernie Returns!
Bernie Tiede, the Carthage man whose story of shooting the town's richest widow inspired a movie, may be walking free next week.
Update
January 21, 2014
For Deborah Murphey, Free Living Is Hard Living
Six years ago, the State of Georgia sent U.S. marshals to Murphey’s home in Frankston, Texas, to take her back to the prison she’d escaped from 33 years earlier. That didn’t work. But now the state has another plan.
The Culture
January 10, 2014
All’s Farrah In Love
The juiciest celebrity trial of the year concluded in December but not, alas, with a satisfactory answer to the most important question of all: Who was Farrah Fawcett’s true love?
SCANDALS
April 10, 2013
Darkness on the Plains
For decades, Stanley Marsh 3 was one of the most celebrated eccentrics in Texas. Then one Houston attorney set out to prove that he had a dark and terrible secret.
Sports
March 11, 2013
Hoop Queens
Half a century ago, the women’s basketball team at Wayland Baptist College set an extraordinary record that may never be broken: the longest winning streak in sports history.
Art
February 3, 2013
Cadillac Ranch Could Be Torn Down
How the sex scandal consuming Amarillo art patron Stanley Marsh 3 also might bring down America's most famous roadside attraction.
Dallas
January 23, 2013
By Invitation Only
In a city that loves its parties, there’s perhaps none so aesthetically significant as Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas’s most cutting-edge fundraiser—and one hell of a good time.
January 21, 2013
Shocking New Allegations in Jeffrey Stern Case
Michelle Gaiser, the mistress who is charged with collaborating with Stern on a murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife, has now been accused of taking a hit out on Stern.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
I Shall Never Surrender or Retreat . . .
. . . from teaching my fifteen-year-old daughter about her Texas roots. So when I realized I was failing to accomplish this most sacred of duties, I did what any well-meaning parent would do: loaded her (and her friends, of course) into the car and hit the road.
Feature
January 21, 2013
School Of Pop
To Addison they come, tweens and teens with talent in abundance, so Linda Septien can teach them how to be the next big thing. Jessica Simpson is her most famous success story, but there are many others. And more in the making.
Books
January 21, 2013
Reading Along With James Donovan
The latest Alamo chronicler offers a glimpse of his reference library.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas
In sleepy Carthage a rich, haughty widow disappears, and nobody seems to notice. When she turns up dead, everybody seems to feel sympathy for the nice young man who killed her.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Lights, Camera, Carthage!
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a Texas Monthly story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
Sex, Lies, and Hit Men!
Yvonne Stern knows that her husband, the wealthy Houston attorney Jeffrey Stern, had a steamy affair with a woman named Michelle Gaiser. And she knows full well that two years ago Gaiser hired a series of men to kill her. But she refuses to believe that Jeffrey was in on
True Crime
January 21, 2013
“If the Serial Killer Gets Us, He Gets Us”
Police had all but given up looking into a pair of assaults against two prostitutes in the Houston neighborhood of Acres Homes. But when a third turned up dead, investigator Darcus Shorten embarked on a search that revealed a brutal reality.
Music
January 21, 2013
The Girl Who Played With Firearms
Miranda Lambert has a lot to be happy about—she’s recently married, with a brand-new album and a string of hits that has made her the toast of Nashville. So why is she so twangry?
Sports
January 21, 2013
Gary Patterson Is Still Yelling at His Players
Who cares if TCU went to the Rose Bowl last season and shocked the world? If the extremely intense coach of the Horned Frogs is going to keep his thrilling roll going, he’s got to keep! these! kids! focused!
Reporter
January 21, 2013
Sects With Strangers
Have you heard the one about the Mormon polygamists who descended on a tiny West Texas town? It would be funny if it wasn't so serious. (Okay, it's pretty funny too.)
Behind the Lines
January 21, 2013
Compound Fracture
Why I have no sympathy for the Eldorado polygamists.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
A Closer Look at One of Dean Corll’s Victims
Dorothy Hilligiest's son David disappeared one day in 1971. She spent her days and nights searching for him, following leads, and eagerly awaiting his return. And then she found out about Dean Corll, one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
Latest News on the Corll Investigation
Researchers have discovered a mistaken identity and another possible victim.
True Crime
January 21, 2013
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.
Business
January 20, 2013
Store Wars!
Two luxury retailers: Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. One desirable market: Houston. The fight for the hearts and credit cards of couture clotheshorses like Lynn Wyatt and Carolyn Farb officially begins next month, but already the fur is flying.
Art
January 20, 2013
Blue Period
Thanks to his wildly popular bluebonnet paintings, Dallas artist W.A. Slaughter is living on easel street.
True Crime
January 20, 2013
Blood Will Sell
The richest man ever tried for murder has found the Lord, along with a new career peddling hand cream. Are you buying the latest incarnation of Cullen Davis?
Music
January 20, 2013
Since She’s Been Gone
The L.A. life of a girl from Burleson (or, You can take Kelly Clarkson out of Texas . . .).
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
The Lawsuit from Hell
How an East Texas attorney spawned the most massive products-liability case ever—one that has cost millions of dollars and involved thousands of plaintiffs and might never end.