Kidnapping

A Woman Was Forced into the Back of a Grand Marquis on Monday, Hasn't Been Seen Since

Just after 2 a.m. Monday, a young Hispanic woman walked to a walk-up cigarette shop on Ann Arbor Avenue. Her boyfriend had taken her car, she told the person behind the window, and she needed a phone to call 911. She had the phone when two men drove up in a red Mercury Grand Marquis. The driver got ... More >>

Two Dallas Men Kidnapped and Raped a Stripper, the Feds Say, and Planned to Sell Her into Sex Slavery

The woman on the line was frantic. She had been kidnapped the day before and didn't know where she was, she told the 911 operator. She just knew she was in a house with one of her captors and could see a parked Dodge pickup from the tiny bathroom window. With that, the line went dead. Dispatchers ... More >>

Sylvespa "Paw" Adams: Once Accused of Beating a Kid Over Drug Money, Now Popped for Running a Large Dallas Weed Operation

Agents of nearly a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies busted a large drug ring this week, arresting a dozen people and seizing 600 marijuana plants and 25 pounds of hydroponic weed. The sweep -- conducted by Dallas PD, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security and the IRS, ... More >>

Dallas Oilman Robert Dodson's Murder Becomes Clearer, With a Cameo From the Aryan Brotherhood

When authorities found the body of Robert Dodson II inside a burning SUV at a gas well in rural Johnson County last month, how he wound up there was a mysterious. It was easy to wonder whether it had something to do with a June incident in which a 17-year-old acquaintance, Claudia Hidic, was shot to ... More >>

The Mysterious Death of Dallas Oil Exec Robert Dodson, Found Sunday in Burning SUV

On Sunday evening, firefighters arrived at a natural gas well in rural Johnson County to find an SUV engulfed in flames. Inside was the body of Robert Excell Dodson II, 44, a father of three and the vice president of Dallas' Buckley Oil Company. It was unclear how long he had been dead before the ve ... More >>

Police Looking For Submachine Gun-Toting Kidnappers Who Took Man on Whirlwind ATM Tour Monday Night

Rudolph Dinwiddie had a rough night on Monday. As he withdrew cash from a Bank of America ATM in the 3900 block of Cedar Springs Road, a car pulled up behind him, and three people stepped out. One was pointing a submachine gun. "If you don't cooperate, we are going to kill your fucking ass," they t ... More >>

Police Searching For 20-Year-Old Kidnapped This Morning As She Left Club

Early this morning, just after the bars closed, Elia Beltran, 20, and a friend were walking from Club Rio along S. Walton Walker Boulevard. They were nearing Beltran's SUV, a dark green Ford Explorer when a 20-something Hispanic man approached carrying a pistol. The man forced Beltran and her frien ... More >>

Dallas PD on the Kidnapping That Wasn't

​At 10:24 this morning, Dallas Police first sent word that a 6-month-old girl had been kidnapped on Westmoreland Road; a short time after that came that Amber Alert, which turned out to be a false alarm. (Jack E. Jett, take a bow.) Moments ago, Senior Corporal Kevin Janse sent this release detaili ... More >>

Dallas PD Asks for Public's Help In Finding Woman Who Was Kidnapped This Morning

​The woman at right is Eileen Loskot, a 54-year-old woman last seen leaving her job -- somewhere in the 2300 block of Reagan Street, between Harry Hines Boulevard and the Dallas North Tollway -- a little after 1 this morning in her red 2004 Infiniti G35. At 12:07 this afternoon, the Dallas Police ... More >>

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted- no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

Access Denied

Mesrine:"Man of a Thousand Faces" Gets a Movie in About as Many Pieces.

Mesrine Takes a Hit

Illegal Immigrants, Desperate To Find Work In The U.S., Risk Kidnapping, Rape and Murder From Those Smuggling Them Across the Border

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother: A Cunning American Boy Becomes a Mexican Cartel Soldier and East L.A. Executioner

Kidnapped McKinney Man Gets an Up-Close Look Into Nigeria's Oily Heart of Darkness

Searching for Melton Barker

Aruba, Abduction

Beth Holloway-Twitty tells her story

Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez's Murder

Sanchez's family thought they'd left the lawlessness of Mexico behind. But somehow it caught up with them.

Clients of Industry

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

Chilling

No Child Left Behind

Lost and Found

Raising Midlothian

True Confession

A killer's statement details the murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Bad News, Good News

The Texas-bred Amber Plan for missing kids works and is spreading

Moral Dilemma

The Decalogue VII and VIII raise some ethical questions

Over the Top

Fuddy Meers is awash in quirky characters with numerous afflictions.

Dead Giveaway

A plea bargain closes the book on the mysterious disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Held Hostage

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death

Raging Waters

Inspired by Patty Hearst, Cecil B. Demented rails against the dying of the cinema

Victimless crime

Bungling thieves, piles of gold, jailhouse snitches, and bloody clothes. Prosocuretors in Madalyn Murray O'Hair's disappearance had everything -- except three corpses

Bloodhounds

New DNA evidence points to a gruesome end for atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Turn of the screw

Authorities make another arrest as they press to solve the O'Hair disappearance

Squeeze play

Federal authorities indict a suspect in the O'Hair disappearance, but the atheist's body is still missing

Blood Vow

When investigators uncovered the bodies of a Dallas mother and her young son in a makeshift Oklahoma grave, FBI agent Tase Bailey swore to bring the killer to justice

The net tightens

Investigators close in on a suspect in the disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Chan's still the man

Jackie's latest trots out some familiar moves while avoiding traffic problems

Gray days

A Brazilian political potboiler paints an ambiguous portrait

Negative Seven

Kiss the Girls is so bad it's terrifying

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Crime doesn't pay

Desperate men take desperate measures in Palookaville and Ransom

The perfect crime

The Coens' dazzling new Fargo rediscovers the horrible, prosaic allure of crime

Alicia Comes Home (Part I)

How a determined father found his abducted daughter

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX