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Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office

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    January 3, 2013

    Cowboy Jerry Brown Was Sober When He Died in a Car Driven by His Drunk Teammate

    The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown's teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had been par ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Don Hardge Fired His AK-47 Into a Crowd Of Teens, But He Swears He's No Killer

    The family of a dead teenage girl might disagree, even if the justice system didn't.

  • News

    July 28, 2011

    In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip

    Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    DPD Chief Brown on Sunday-Night Shooting in Pleasant Grove That Left One Officer Injured

    ​No doubt you've heard about the shooting last night at a Pleasant Grove apartment complex that left one Dallas Police officer and a bystander wounded and the gunman, Kenneth Horton, dead. Moments ago, the DPD sent along this statement from Dallas Police Chief David Brown: Last night Dallas off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    DPD Wants to Know How Baxter Odom's Body Wound Up Beneath Woodall Rodgers Freeway

    Baxter Odom​Perhaps you saw the story: At 8 a.m. Monday, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus driver noticed a body lying along the Clark Street sidewalk just beneath the overpass where North Central Expressway becomes the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The body was eventually identified as that of 24-year-o ... More >>

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    CSI: Cedar Hill

    Two Dallas suburbanites put art and science to work unraveling the mysteries of the dead

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    A Quiet Death

    The last his family heard from him, Jacob Davidson said he could never return home. A year later, he was dead. The police say it was suicide. Those who knew him think otherwise.

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Marked Man

    Dallas police say Herbert Lee Madison caused the death of an exemplary officer. But an eyewitness who saw the entire incident unfold says Madison is no cop killer.

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse

    A reporter's tip helped detectives identify a mutilated body dumped along the Trinity, but finding the man's name led to a deeper mystery -- the disappearance of atheist gadfly Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    Nobody Noticed

    Marilu Dennis lived in Lakewood for 36 years. One hot July day, she died alone in her home. For 15 months, the grass grew. The mail piled up. The bills went unpaid. Nobody saw Marilu. Nobody noticed

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