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2000 Stories by John Maccormack

• Hard Case

  published December 14, 2000

  SONORA--After a four-day trial that laid open the Cardwell family closet, Cody Cardwell was acquitted of murdering his older brother Bill in a... More >>

• High Spoons

  published November 23, 2000

  TERLINGUA--With Old Dixie and the skull and crossbones dangling overhead, some Hill Country cedar burning on the campfire, and Jell-O shots on the... More >>

• Blood Feud

  published November 16, 2000

  JUNCTION, Texas--In the biblical version of the tale, the older son of the patriarch was filled with spite and jealousy, killed his younger... More >>

• Killer Smile

  published September 28, 2000

  DEL RIO, Texas--In the moments before the trial began, the small blond girl sat close by her grandmother on a hard oak courtroom bench, chatting... More >>

• Victimless crime

  published June 15, 2000

  The last time anyone admits seeing Danny Fry alive is September 30, 1995, when he sat mutely, seemingly ill or in shock, on the veranda of the... More >>

• Bloodhounds

  published March 9, 2000

  For the two ex-cons accused of kidnapping and murdering missing atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her two children, the "South Pacific getaway"... More >>

• Turn of the screw

  published January 13, 2000

  In another sign that prosecutors are ready to do some legal arm-twisting, a North Texas man with vague links to the case of missing atheist... More >>