The three-to-eleven evening shift, Bexar County Hospital, San Antonio: nurse Genene Jones was on duty in the pediatric intensive care unit, and for months babies kept having mysterious—sometimes fatal—emergencies. Why?
Sometimes prison is harder for the people on the other side of the bars.
Soon there won’t be anyone left who wants to be a cop.
Probation gives criminals a chance to show society that they can stay straight. Probation officers like Jan Purdom believe the system works.
Anybody can get a job as a security guard. Anybody.
Used correctly, the polygraph can tell whether or not an accused criminal’s claim that he didn’t do it is true. Too bad the police can’t take that to court.
Hugh Roy Cullen found the oil and made one of Houston’s great fortunes; now his grandson is spending his inheritance like there is no tomorrow, and suing for more.
The life—promising beginning, overripe middle, bloody end—of Lee Chagra, the biggest drug lawyer in El Paso.
To unjam its prisons, Texas is moving convicted felons out of the big house and into a house on your block.
Trial by jury is a right most people charged with a crime never get to exercise. Instead, they accept a quicker, less risky alternative: the plea bargain.
Every year thousands of men and women assault, molest, or murder innocent victims - their own children.
John Catchings can sole crimes without witnesses, confessions, or clues. How? He’s a psychic.
Mandatory sentencing means every felon gets the same sentence for the same crime - and for the rest of us it means a lot of crimes that won’t happen.
A tale of passion in the double-knit aristocracy.
Is your family safer with a gun in the house?
Violence within the family tends not to be taken too seriously by the courts. But eventually that violence will burst loose to threaten us all.
Lock your doors. The police have given up trying to catch burglars.
Who turned off the melting pot? Vietnamese and Texans fight on the coast.
Houston police said they shot Randy Webster because he pointed a gun at them. Randy’s father set out to prove they were lying.
He knows the secrets behind closed doors.
There’s more at stake than money when two hustlers cue up.
If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.
The secret life of the man who tells the Man.
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
What’s good for marijuana is good for Starr County.
Profile of a society murder and the woman who lived to tell about it.
The life and times of Candy Barr—the woman who made headlines by always being in the wrong place at the right time.
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
Whodunit?
Dope sellers obey the law—of supply and demand.
Sometimes the history books leave out the best part.
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
It’s easy to lock yourself out of your own home, but keeping someone else out is rather more difficult.
A San Antonio patrolman tells what it is like on the job.
Those who enforce our narcotics laws often use the stuff themselves.
Crime is a craft and has its secrets.
Tired of running, he let himself be caught; then he busted right out again.
At least 90 are already dead as drug lords fight for routes into Texas.
High-speed chases, murder investigations, and window-peeping are all in a day's work.
Making the rounds with Texas’ most unlikely cop.
