Crime & Police

Watts repeatedly evaded the criminal justice system despite years of warnings, arrests, and mounting evidence linking him to attacks on women.

The bizarre saga of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas includes how Texas believed he had committed hundreds of murders that he almost certainly did not commit.

He became obsessed with inconsistencies he saw in the prosecution’s case against O.J. Simpson and spent years investigating

The disappearance and murder of Dallas businessman Gary Patterson sent investigators tracking down his remains in the West Texas desert.

Catherine Shelton wanted to convince the public that she was wrongly blamed for the murder of Michael Hierro

Less than two years after Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million lottery jackpot, he took his own life.

“It’s all everyone at the courthouse is talking about,” says one lawyer who has represented Shelton, “and that obviously includes me.”

How an unidentified body found in Dallas County connects to the disappearance and murder of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Samantha Garofalo, who later became known in the adult-film industry as Jordan Lee, adopted multiple aliases, altered documents and concealed her past.

A convicted killer gets placed on an electric leash.

Michael Lee Davis, formerly Walter Waldhauser Jr., is a convicted participant in a murder-for-hire scheme that killed multiple family members, including a baby.