Midlothian Police Release More Video in Church Killing

Midlothian police, it seems, are not really any closer to finding out who killed Missy Bevers, the Camp Gladiator instructor found dead inside Creekside Church of Christ just after 5 a.m. Monday. Friday afternoon, for the third time, the released additional footage of the person they believe is Bevers’ killer, vandalizing…

Johnny Manziel’s Ugly Slide Continues

In the worst sign yet for his NFL prospect, former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel has been dumped as a client by his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. Tuesday afternoon’s announcement came after the Dallas County District Attorney announced that accusations that Manziel beat his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley,…

Love and Murder in Tent City

Evening descends on Tent City. Overhead, the incessant whir of traffic on Interstate 45 has become a muffled groan with the onset of rush hour. The sun hasn’t yet sunk low enough to squeeze between the underside of the freeway and the roofs of the low-slung warehouses that surround it,…

Midlothian Police Seeking Tactical Gear-Clad Church Killer

A couple of days a week, Missy Bevers taught a boot camp exercise group called Camp Gladiator outside Creekside Church of Christ on East U.S. Highway 287 in Midlothian. Monday, the 45-year-old arrived at the church just after 4 a.m. for her 5 o’clock class. Because of the rain Sunday, she…

Ethan Couch Gets Two Years in Tarrant County Jail

Ethan Couch, the affluenza-suffering teen who killed four in a 2013 Tarrant County drunk driving incident, had his first day in adult court Wednesday. Couch, originally sentenced to 10 years probation, will remain in Tarrant County Jail for two years as a condition of that probation, Tarrant County District Judge…

Running to Mexico: Smart Idea If Life In Prison Looks Good

After conversations with some of the city’s top criminal attorneys and having invested a decent amount of time in reading stuff on the Internet, I have rendered myself qualified, in my own opinion, to offer the following non-legal and inexpert advice: Persons accused of capital crimes in Texas who may…

Fort Worth Cop Maces Biker Group During Traffic Stop

Chase Stone and his friends were out Sunday, he says, to enjoy to beautiful weather and the start of riding season with a group motorcycle ride. As the riders traveled through Fort Worth, one of the group’s support vehicles, traveling with the caravan of motorcycles to help out in case…

10 Times North Texas Felt the Weight of the Mexican Drug Cartels

Two men accused of orchestrating the killing of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, the one-time attorney for Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who was gunned down in 2013 in Southlake, have been connected by federal law enforcement to as many as a dozen additional murders. Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, 59, and his son Jesus…

Does Somebody Actually Believe Booze and Rape Are Unrelated?

Rape: another important topic falls off the map of sanity. Now people are demonizing a North Texas lawmaker because she said rape and booze might have something to do with each other. So does that mean somebody actually thinks there’s a planet out there somewhere in the rant-o-verse where rape…

Will Dallas’ New Violent Crime Task Force Work?

On February 5, Dallas Police Chief David Brown delivered some bad news to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Through the first month of 2016, violent crime was up by 26 percent over the previous year. There’d been one fewer murders, but the number of rapes (13 percent) robberies (21…