Knock on wood, somebody, quick! It’s been three months since my car was broken into (for the second time) in my little corner of Junius Heights in East Dallas. I do miss my friendly stereo thieves, who brought excitement to otherwise lame Friday and Sunday nights last winter. And I…
James Curtis Giles At 11 this morning, a law student from Chicago named Lauren Kaeseberg will be standing alongside Barry Scheck — and other attorneys with The Innocence Project — in the court of Judge Robert Francis. They will be presenting new evidence in an exoneration hearing in the case…
Charles Anthony Nealy, who was executed on March 20 On March 2o, a man from Michigan came down to Texas to witness the execution of Charles Anthony Nealy, who was sentenced to death in 1998 for robbing and killing two convenience-store clerks in South Dallas in August 1997. That man…
Because the Friend of Unfair Park loves reading ACLU-generated reports so close to closing time, we thought we’d direct your attention to the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas’ just-released study about the prison population in Texas titled Texas: Tougher than Ever. Specifically, the report compares how Texas and New…
The Dallas County Commissioners Court has just agreed to settle the the James Mims lawsuit that sparked a series of investigations into the troubled Dallas County Jail. Voting unanimously, the commissioners agreed to pay the families of three county inmates $950,000, an extraordinary sum for this type of litigation. Typically,…
A hearty Monday-morning “mazel tov” to a couple of local(ish) legal blogs: Unfair Park faves Grits for Breakfast, Scott Henson’s statewide crime-and-punishment round-up, and Dallas public defender Mike Howard’s The Wretched of the Earth, which deals specifically with the Dallas criminal justice system’s treatment of the indigent. Both were honored…
For three years, two gangs controlled a single city block. They thought the cops had given up. They were wrong.
Did a preacher’s obsessions push Dena Schlosser over the edge?
David Cunniff Lives in Pain. Skinhead Jesse Chaddock lives in a Texas Prison. Who got the raw deal?
Sandra Camille Bridewell has long associated with fraud allegations and suspicions surrounding the deaths of people close to her.
The investigation took a dramatic turn when police arrested Andrew Wamsley, along with his girlfriend, her friend and an IHOP manager.
In a bungled hunt for a killer, police wreck the life of an innocent.
Sandra Camille Bridewell had been the subject of rumors, lawsuits, fraud allegations, and suspicion surrounding multiple deaths for nearly three decades.
Jamaican drug organizations transformed—and devastated—parts of South Dallas and Oak Cliff in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The untold story of the 1990 bathtub shooting.
A killer’s statement details the murder of Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
Watts repeatedly evaded the criminal justice system despite years of warnings, arrests, and mounting evidence linking him to attacks on women.
His wife murdered their five children, but Rusty Yates was the one labeled a villain. He says don’t believe everything you read.
Three years after his conviction for rape, local DJ Gary “Babyfase” Faison speaks out to proclaim his innocence. What are the odds he’s right? One in 300 million.
There were dozens of large drug busts in Dallas in which suspects were accused of possessing kilograms of cocaine.
A spate of unrelated domestic killings rocks the Park Cities.
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.
