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Murder and Homicide

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Kerry Max Cook, Still Not "Innocent," Learns That the Murder Weapon Was Taken Home as a "Souvenir"

    In a new twist for a case full of them, lawyers of Kerry Max Cook, the Dallas man sentenced to death for a gruesome rape and murder before being exonerated two decades later, are accusing a prosecutor in his case of taking home the murder weapon as a dark, twisted souvenir. This accusation, part o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    "The System Made a Mistake": Judge Finally, Officially, Makes Richard Miles a Free Man

    The ever-expanding and always sharply dressed brotherhood of Dallas County exonerees once again lined the courtroom at the Frank Crowley Courts Building for an exoneration hearing this morning, this time in support of Richard Miles, who they already know quite well. After 14 years behind bars for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    After a Triple Murder in East Dallas, DPD Accuses a Man of Killing His Wife and In-Laws

    By 8 a.m., the news vans had started to arrive, parking on the street behind the cop cars, the Medical Examiner's white sedan, the city of Dallas vehicle marked "Crime Scene." They sank their tripods into the soft mud surrounding the house on Peavy Road, a nice-looking two-story with a two-car garag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Dallas County Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Unconstitutional Is Forced To Recuse Herself

    Teresa Hawthorne, the Dallas County judge who ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional, must recuse herself from a capital murder case, a judge ruled today. Hawthorne was presiding over the capital murder trial of Roderick Harris, who's accused of killing brothers Alfredo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2011

    Life Mimics Bloody Art

    Teresa Hawthorne, the Dallas County judge who ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional, must recuse herself from a capital murder case, a judge ruled today. Hawthorne was presiding over the capital murder trial of Roderick Harris, who's accused of killing brothers Alfredo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Dallas PD Asks For Help in Finding "Suspect Vehicle Sought in Vicious Murder"

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    Murder Was The Case

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2010

    Murder at Midnight

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2010

    Kiss Me, Kill Me

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Local Production Kills

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    Razzle Dazzle

    DPD sent this still of the truck in question, taken from surveillance video​No doubt you're well aware that at 5 a.m. on December 29, 23-year-old Luis Marquez was found murdered on Levee Street in the Design District, his throat slit. A few days later, Dallas police said Marquez had been robbed, l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Natalie Maines Still Isn't Ready To Make Nice--Even When She Probably Didn't Intend To Be Mean In The First Place. Oh Well!

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    Notorious 'Texas Seven' Try to Save One of Their Own By Insulting Him

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Dallas Police Confirm Murder-Suicide in Deaths of Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2008

    The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Is a ... Waitaminute ... "Support Group"?

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    Yaser Abdel Said Is Now Among America's Most Wanted For Daughters' Slayings

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2007

    A "House of Death" Lawsuit is No Mas

    This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Natalie Maines, of the one-time Dallas-based Dixie Chicks, is in the news again, this time because she's, like, totally getting sued by this guy who is upset at claims that Maines, who's no stranger to controversy, once made that basically sugges ... More >>

  • News

    September 6, 2007

    Of Note

    Sloppy record keeping causing headaches in criminal appeals

  • Calendar

    August 23, 2007

    Staged Murders

    Sloppy record keeping causing headaches in criminal appeals

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Witness for the Prosecution

    Did lack of manpower leave a felon on bail free to kill? Maybe. Sort of.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    When Jim Schutze Has No Problem With Convicted Murderers

    Did lack of manpower leave a felon on bail free to kill? Maybe. Sort of.

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Fatal Web

    The arrest of Dallas' "Black Widow" lights a fire under a cold murder case

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    House of Death

    A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2007

    The Meaning of a Charged Word

    A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    Missed the Target | Those Crazy Baylor Grads | Frat Boys, Yeah Iced | Iced

    A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Undue Process

    Want to send an innocent man to prison for life? Judge Karen Greene is ready to help.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Judge Doesn't Give DMN El Paso

    Want to send an innocent man to prison for life? Judge Karen Greene is ready to help.

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    The Big Thaw

    Collin County's cold case squad empties its file of unsolved murders

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2006

    Oh, Dear, Bill Dear

    Collin County's cold case squad empties its file of unsolved murders

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    It's Hard Out There For a Pimp

    Collin County's cold case squad empties its file of unsolved murders

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2006

    Light Sleeper?

    Collin County's cold case squad empties its file of unsolved murders

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Death for a Killer

    Plus: Off the List, Maybe

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    Psycho Mom

    Lisa Diaz had to save her "precious babies" from an evil world. She drowned them.

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Out of the Ashes

    Investigators find a suspect in a vicious arson fire that killed five dallas kids 15 years ago

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    12-year-old Killer

    The story of Edwin Debrow Jr., one of the youngest Texans ever convicted of murder, in his own words

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    The Garden of Angels

    With statues, crosses and Christmas ornaments, parents mourn and celebrate the memory of children taken by violence

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Bad Apples

    Is a teacher's effort to free two convicted killers a rush to bad judgment?

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Tuned Out

    A veteran prosecutor--and famed barbershop quartet member--bows out of office

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Party Girl

    Confronting advanced breast cancer without a dime to her name, Texas legend Priscilla Davis insists the good times aren't over yet

  • Culture

    June 29, 2000

    Old thrills

    RTC gives Witness for the Prosecution a rousing turn at the stand

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Parting shots

    A triple murderer freed from prison runs into his old nemeses on the way back to the pen

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    Reasonable doubt?

    Dallas lawyer Catherine Shelton on her troubled pastand the Rowlett murder she says she didn't commit

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Last dance

    In Dallas' cantinas, where the company of pretty young meseras is doled out by the drink, a killer lurks

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    Arresting development

    In Dallas' cantinas, where the company of pretty young meseras is doled out by the drink, a killer lurks

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Letters

    In Dallas' cantinas, where the company of pretty young meseras is doled out by the drink, a killer lurks

  • News

    December 14, 1995

    From Lee Harvey Oswald to Ashley Estell, Dallas pathologist Linda Norton serves as Doctor to the Dead

    In Dallas' cantinas, where the company of pretty young meseras is doled out by the drink, a killer lurks

  • Film

    October 26, 1995

    Second-hand thrills

    Two great actresses get stuck holding the Xerox in Copycat

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Lambs to the slaughter

    Laws to speed executions will make it harder to save Death Row's innocent

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    Death Row Granny

    Bettie Beets killed two husbands. Now she's likely to become the first woman the state of Texas has ever executed

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