Email Author John Maccormack

1999 Stories by John Maccormack

• Squeeze play

  published December 16, 1999

  After six months of apparent drift, the case of the vanished atheist came abruptly to life last week when a federal grand jury in Austin indicted... More >>

• A woman scorned

  published August 19, 1999

  It was a foregone conclusion that ex-con David R. Waters, one of the men suspected of killing atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair, would be... More >>

• Lucky break

  published July 29, 1999

  The case of the headless, handless corpse shook off the summer doldrums last week and lurched forward, as events in Detroit and San Antonio added... More >>

• Danny Fry's last days

  published June 3, 1999

  More than a thousand days passed before the headless, handless body dumped by the East Fork of the Trinity yielded a name--Danny Fry, a small-time... More >>

• Ain't got no body

  published May 27, 1999

  The bones of the Great Atheist are out there, possibly somewhere west of San Antonio near the remote Hill Country town of Camp Wood, where... More >>

• The net tightens

  published April 1, 1999

  In a perverse coincidence, federal agents and Dallas County sheriff's deputies chose March 24, David Roland Waters' 52nd birthday, to descend upon... More >>

• The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse

  published February 18, 1999

  Info: The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse A reporter's tip helped detectives identify a mutilated body dumped along the Trinity, but... More >>