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Murder and Homicide

  • 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.

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Through the End of July, Crime in Dallas Is Down in 2011. For the Most Part.

    ​Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monrea ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2010

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

    ​Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monrea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Dallas DA, DPD Reopen 1997 Murder Case, and Discover They Convicted the Wrong Men

    Dallas County District AttorneyClaude Simmons is one of two men being exonerated for a 1997 murder he did not commit.​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins's office sends word this morning that two men convicted of murder in October 1997 -- 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year- ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

    Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

    Dallas County District AttorneyClaude Simmons is one of two men being exonerated for a 1997 murder he did not commit.​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins's office sends word this morning that two men convicted of murder in October 1997 -- 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    Bowling for Morning Items

    Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Homicide or "Honor Killing": The Debate Resumes Following FBI Posting

    Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2008

    Killer Facts, Courtesy City Hall

    Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Still an Aryan Blood Brother

    Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    A Talk on "Religion and Violence" -- Timely

    Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    Honor Among Pundits

    Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    For Love, Aryan Brotherhood Killer Confesses

    The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    In Limbo

    The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2007

    Plano Finishes Dead Last!!!

    The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2007

    Feds Indict 14 Texas Syndicate Members For Murder -- and Much, Much More -- in North Texas

    The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2007

    DPD Confirms That Sorta's Carter Albrecht Was Shot and Killed Today

    The prison gang member and killer stands ready to clear his wife for his crimes

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Caught Cold

    Forget what you think you know about serial killers and what cops do to nab them

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2006

    What, No Kenny Wayne Shepherd?

    Forget what you think you know about serial killers and what cops do to nab them

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2006

    Going Down in Downtown

    Forget what you think you know about serial killers and what cops do to nab them

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    Missing Links

    Is a serial killer stalking gays in the Dallas area?

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2006

    Wamsley: "He Could Have Been Much More"

    Is a serial killer stalking gays in the Dallas area?

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2006

    Wamsley: Guilty

    Is a serial killer stalking gays in the Dallas area?

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Family Plot

    Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were strict with their children. Police say their son paid them back with murder.

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Clueless

    No one knows who murdered Brent Gutheinz. Thanks to a sloppy investigation, it's likely no one ever will.

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Good Joe

    Confessed serial killer Coral Eugene Watts gets charged with murder--finally

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Rude Boy

    The life and times of John Soldier

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Evil Eyes

    Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    Killers Among Us

    Why did three Park Cities fathers explode in murderous rage?

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Case Closed

    How Dallas police detective Shari Degan solved the grisly murder that rocked Dallas--in 1913

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    O.J. Confidential

    High-profile P.I. Bill Dear believes he knows who killed Nicole Simpson. It's not who you think.

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Dead Giveaway

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

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Phantom Menace

    In 1946, a serial killer haunted sleepy Texarkana, stalking his victims under the cover of night. Investigators wonder if he died decades later in a Dallas rest home--or simply disappeared.

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    The Angel of Juarez

    Hundreds of poor Mexican girls have been abducted, raped, and murdered on the streets of Ciudad Juarez. They were forgotten and mostly ignored by authorities until Esther Chavez came along.

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Killer Smile

    Tommy Lynn Sells claims to have murdered dozens, and Texas Rangers fear he's telling the truth

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Burden of proof

    Serial killer Faryion Wardrip would have gotten away with murder if bricklayer-turned-investigator John Little hadn't stolen his coffee cup

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Bad business

    Death merchant Michael Lee Davis, sent once again to prison, is now worth more dead than alive

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Questions of innocence

    Odell Barnes is just one of many inmates with questionable convictions facing the death penalty

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Presumed guilty

    Odell Barnes awaits execution on March 1 -- despite new evidence that he didn't commit the crime

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Squeeze play

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

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    A woman scorned

    A suspect in Madalyn Murray O'Hair's disappearance is sentenced, but for which crime?

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Innocence Lost

    Railroaded onto death row, Kerry Max Cook endures rapes, beatings, and suicide attempts while waiting for justice

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Innocence lost

    Prosecutors lied and cheated to put Kerry Max Cook on death row for 16 years. He's out of prison now, but still not quite free.

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    On the lam

    A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    The Wrong Man

    The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Cheating death

    A notorious murder-for-hire ex-con may have reached the end of his road in Dallas

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Death Merchant

    In 1979, Walter Waldhauser Jr. arranged the murder of a Houston family. Today, he has a new name and a new business in Dallas,but he still profits when people die.

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    The Lie Detector

    From the mayor of Atlanta, who was unjustly accused of graft, to a California man wrongly sentenced to life in a Texas prison, polygraph examiner Eric Holden found the truth that helped set them free

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Defending Darlie

    Wealthy Waco businessman Brian Pardo spends his time and money helping death-row inmates he believes are innocent. His efforts on behalf of Darlie Routier have raised suspicions about her husband--and about Pardo's motives.

  • News

    April 9, 1998

    Dallas Confidential

    The Texas Troubadour's Fatal Rendezvous and other amazing stories from the police department's cold case squad

  • News

    November 16, 1995

    The Chief, the Scotsman, the Swindler, and the Killer

    David Pasztor unravels a tangeled tale of death and international intrigue

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