Email Author Ann Zimmerman

1999 Stories by Ann Zimmerman

• Trojan pony

  published December 30, 1999

  Sandwiched between Central Expressway and Southern Methodist University, University Gardens is a housing oasis -- an aging but genteel condominium... More >>

• After the fall

  published December 16, 1999

  The first thought Mike Perryman had as he climbed out of bed that Sunday morning nearly two years ago was that it was his son Colt's birthday. His... More >>

• Unraveling a mystery

  published December 16, 1999

  Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, sounds as exuberant as a schoolboy winning his... More >>

• Skating along

  published December 2, 1999

  This Is How We Do It" blares on the sound system, its driving rhythm pumping up the already fevered crowd. Preteens in their Tommy Hilfiger... More >>

• Picture imperfect

  published November 18, 1999

  When we last left the city marshal's office, officers were upset that a sergeant was allowed to continue working for months after he admitted... More >>

• Return to sender

  published November 11, 1999

  Last June, for the sixth time in two years, Rufino and Cynthia Cruz loaded their two young daughters into their 1985 Chevy Suburban and drove from... More >>

• Fighting fire with fire

  published November 4, 1999

  Looking back, Sherrie Wilson thinks she can pinpoint the moment she knew something was wrong. It was mid-August 1998, barely a month after she... More >>

• Proof of citizenship

  published October 21, 1999

  On July 19, three carloads of armed officers from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service arrived at the small Fort Worth house that... More >>

• Cult of Madness

  published October 14, 1999

  In a small, nondescript room in Charter Hospital in Plano, a disheveled, glassy-eyed woman rocks in a chair as she speaks in a little girl's voice... More >>

• Marshal law

  published August 5, 1999

  Last year, employees of the Dallas marshal's office were alarmed when Sgt. Don Madewell, a veteran of the department, admitted he had taken an... More >>

• Chokehold

  published July 29, 1999

  On a moonlit July night three years ago, as Godwin Omokaro headed out to celebrate his 37th birthday, his life seemed full of possibilities. After... More >>

• Radio-Free Garland

  published June 10, 1999

  Shortly after sunrise one day last August, the doorbell rang at the home of Marty and Mary Ann Markowitz in northwest Garland. It was 7:30 a.m.,... More >>

• Desperate Measures

  published June 10, 1999

  Drenched in sweat from head to toe, 3-year-old Tate Sherrod writhes and moans as his pale blue eyes flash with terrified distress. Nurses in the... More >>

• Big-time payback

  published May 27, 1999

  Tom Caton, a 29-year veteran of the Dallas Fire Department, did not decide to become a firefighter to get rich. Far from it. He put his life on... More >>

• The Cult of Darlie

  published May 6, 1999

  If they start throwing chairs, you'll know you're on the wrong set." With such sage advice, my 11-year-old daughter bid me adieu before I jetted... More >>

• More is less

  published April 8, 1999

  For the last few months, Dallas County Community College District professors have exchanged a series of angry e-mail messages lambasting The... More >>

• Hercules unchained

  published April 1, 1999

  All the workers at the Dallas Zoo know that Hercules has an attitude problem. You can see it in his menacing eyes, which are always alert whenever... More >>

• The keeper's tale

  published April 1, 1999

  On March 2, three months after zookeeper Jennifer McClurg was attacked and repeatedly bitten by a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, she sat down with... More >>

• Gone but not forgotten

  published February 18, 1999

  On the afternoon of February 7, Elizabeth Moier waited for her two daughters to return home from school, then thetheir daily ritual--walking the... More >>

• The Fugitive

  published February 11, 1999

  For much of the first half of the decade, psychiatrist Robert Hadley Gross felt like a hunted man. Federal agents let the young doctor know he was... More >>