February 9, 2012
When Playing Through Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
A Springtown man suffers a life-threatening wound after he was stabbed in the leg with a broken golf club on the Eagle Mountain Lake course in Fort Worth.
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February 1, 2012
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
January 27, 2012
Meanwhile, in Lufkin…
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
January 26, 2012
Texas Set to Execute First Man of 2012
Rodrigo Hernandez, who was convicted of the rape and murder of Susan Verstegen, a 38-year-old single mother and Frito-Lay employee, is set to die.
Business
January 19, 2012
Allen Stanford Trial to Start Monday
Houston's own mini-Madoff, who is accused of orchestrating an international $7 billion Ponzi scheme, finally goes to court.
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.
Food & Drink
January 12, 2012
Taco-Related Crimes Are Surprisingly Unhilarious
Texas has five entries on Buzzfeed's "30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever," but the mere presence of tortillas doesn't make crime funny.
January 12, 2012
A Look Back at the Texas Prison Rodeo
Demolition crews are razing the Hunstville stadium this week, where "The Wildest Show Behind Bars" took place for 35 years. The place may be gone, but its legacy will never be forgotten.
Music
January 10, 2012
The Sierra Blanca Checkpoint Strikes Again: Snoop Dogg Arrested for Pot Possession
The rapper takes a marijuana bust in the same place that tripped up his good friend Willie Nelson.
January 9, 2012
HPD Stars in “The Fifth Worst Police Misconduct Video of 2011”
Injustice Everywhere readers rated more than eighty police brutality videos, and coming in at number five was a tape of the Houston Police Department stomping and beating a teen burglary suspect.
January 5, 2012
Bum Steer: That “Handsome Guy” Nickname Might Be a Curse in Prison
A man suspected in the “Handsome Guy” bank robberies was found on the run after he allegedly left his car keys at the scene of his last heist.
January 3, 2012
Midland Green Beret Says He Didn’t See the C-4 While Packing
Trey Scott Atwater, who is charged with attempting to take explosives on an airplane, was “surprised” that there was C-4 in his carry-on.
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January 1, 2012
Peggy Railey
The wife of a prominent Dallas minister, who was left for dead some 24 years ago in her garage, finally dies after spending years in a nursing home in Tyler.
December 16, 2011
Texas Executions Drop to Fifteen-Year Low
The number of people Texas executes each year is steadily declining as public sentiment in America turns against the death penalty.
December 14, 2011
Building a Different Kind of Wall in the Valley
After stray bullets hit two students at an Edinburg junior high, officials consider erecting a cinder-block wall around the property.
December 12, 2011
Jack Abramoff to Tigua Indians: I’m Sorry
The disgraced lobbyist apologizes for his treatment of the El Paso tribe, but is it too little too late?
December 12, 2011
Suspected Jewel Thief Dishes with Reporter
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram lands an interview with John O’Brien, the main suspect in the “rooftop burglaries.”
December 9, 2011
Mexican Authorities Tortured an El Pasoan Prisoner
A Texas man serving time in a federal prison in Juárez was beaten and abused by soldiers.
Food & Drink
December 7, 2011
Woman Fights for Three Meals a Day in Prisons
An Austin woman worried about the health of her father, an inmate at the Eastham Unit, is petitioning the prisons to feed inmates three meals every day.
December 6, 2011
Remembering the Yogurt Shop Murders
Twenty years ago today, four teenage girls were murdered at an “I Can't Believe It’s Yogurt” in Austin, and the killers have yet to be caught.
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December 1, 2011
Unsolved Mystery
It has been twenty years since four teenage girls were murdered in a north Austin yogurt shop—and still no answers.
Hollywood, TX
December 1, 2011
Perfect Execution
Into the Abyss dives deep into the death penalty debate.
November 30, 2011
Law Enforcement Unions Slam Harris County DA
Organizations representing some 10,000 Harris County law enforcement officers banded together on Tuesday to denounce District Attorney Pat Lykos as being soft on crime.
November 15, 2011
Whataburger Drug Bust Suspects Get Racy in Squad Car’s Back Seat
Two suspects arrested at a Whataburger outside of Houston find a unique way to kill time while being taken to the precinct.
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.
Letter From Juarez
August 31, 2011
The Missing
For the women of Juárez, the terror of kidnapping—and worse—has never ended. Will it ever?
Letter From Cleveland
June 30, 2011
The Worst Hard Time
My hometown of Cleveland has become the most disgraced community in America because of a brutal, unspeakable crime that has set everyone against one another.
The Culture
June 30, 2011
Jason Macias, Night Police Officer
Macias has served as a patrolman with the San Antonio Police Department for the past seven years. He works the shift that runs from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. (known as the “dog watch”) and is based out of the Central Substation, which oversees downtown and its surrounding area.A police
News & Politics
June 1, 2011
An Absolute Honest-to-God Texas Frame-up
The “Mineola Swingers Club” cases come to a disgraceful end.
True Crime
April 1, 2011
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.
True Crime
January 1, 2011
Rich Man, Poor Man
The tragic culture clash that led to the murder of a governor’s son.
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October 31, 2010
Angels and Devils
CBS’s 48 Hours fills in the final chapters of the notorious Matt Baker.
Border & Immigration
September 30, 2010
Spill Way
When people ask me if cartel violence will find its way into Texas, I tell them it already has—and it’s going to get worse.
News & Politics
September 1, 2010
Trial and Error
The wheels of justice (or injustice) continue to turn in the shockingly bizarre Mineola swingers club case.
The Culture
August 31, 2010
Jackie Hopper, 911 Call Operator
Hopper, who grew up in Weatherford, became one of his hometown’s 911 call operators right out of high school. In 1997 he joined the Austin Police Department, where—except for a hiatus to get his college degree—he has worked in the emergency communications division for seven years.When you call 911, the
News & Politics
June 18, 2010
Reversal of Misfortune
New trials for two of the Mineola Swinger's Club defendants.
Leaving
May 31, 2010
Childhood’s End
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Music
March 31, 2010
Soñando con Ella
Era una chica del barrio cuya voz la hizo acreedora de un Grammy, vendió millones de álbumes y la convirtió en una sensación como ninguna otra. Y cuando fue asesinada, el 31 de marzo de 1995, la estrella de la música tejana Selena Quintanilla Pérez pareció llevarse consigo las aspiraciones
True Crime
March 31, 2010
The Lost Girls
Every year thousands of women are smuggled into the United States and forced to work as prostitutes. Many of them end up in Houston, in massage parlors and spas. Most of them will have a hard time ever getting out.
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February 1, 2010
CSI: Anahuac
The John Doe case that continues to haunt a small town in Texas.
True Crime
February 1, 2010
193
That’s the number of times Harris County housewife Susan Wright stabbed her husband in a brutal 2003 murder that riveted the nation and landed her in prison for 25 years. But should the butcher of the burbs be freed?
Politics & Policy
September 30, 2009
Memo to Kay
Even someone who supports the death penalty, as you do, can and should be up in arms over the Cameron Willingham case.
True Crime
August 1, 2009
Bringing Down the Dogmen
The bust that nabbed Houston’s top dogfighters was the work of two gutsy undercover cops who knew that the only way to infiltrate this secret world was to become dogfighters themselves.
News & Politics
August 1, 2009
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes
The Texas attorney general takes a second look at the Mineola child sex ring cases.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 2009
Cold Cash
Convicted congressman William Jefferson owes this former pollster money. Something tells me I'm not going to collect.
Web Exclusive
May 31, 2009
Road to Perdition
Was the Army as much to blame for the Mahmudiyah killings as its perpetrators?
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2009
The Lost Boys
Can a former member of a vicious Houston gang leave crime behind and build a new life for himself?
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2009
In Treatment
Diversionary programs such as drug courts, which provide treatment-based alternatives for non-violent criminals to prisons, remain critically underfunded.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 2009
Eyewitness News
The Legislature takes up photo and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases.
News & Politics
April 1, 2009
Hysteria
When adults are accused of unthinkable crimes against children, what’s fact and what’s fiction can get lost in translation.