North Texas Cops Caught Being Racist Online
Police officers in Dallas and Denison have been caught making and circulating bigoted posts on social media, often advocating for the use of deadly viRead More…
Category: Crime
Patron Saint of the Disappeared
The night before her daughter disappeared, an ominous vision came to Josefina De León. She dreamed of a cradle, similar to the one her oldest child, Read More…
Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild
Joe Exotic was done. For the previous two decades, 55-year-old Joe had been the heart, soul, and ubiquitous public face of a massive private zoo in WRead More…
The Best Thing in Texas: A San Antonio Native Stopped the San Diego Synagogue Shooting
WHO: Oscar Stewart, a San Antonio native who attends the Chabad of Poway synagogue in the San Diego suburb of Poway WHAT: An act of courage that saRead More…
Sandra Bland Made Her Own Recording of the Traffic Stop that Led to Her Death
It’s been almost four years since the death of Sandra Bland. The incident that led to her death has been well documented. The footage of the traRead More…
Thefts of Austin-Based Car2Go Rentals Show the Vulnerability of Our App-Based Lifestyles
Car2Go’s service launched in Austin in 2010, and the capital remains its only Texas market. Owned by Daimler—but with its North American headqRead More…
‘Truth & Justice’ Podcast Offers $20,000 Reward for Info in Controversial Houston Murder Case
A Michigan podcaster is back in Texas, trying to free an inmate he swears was wrongly convicted. This is the fifth Texas case in three and a half yearRead More…
What Drove Houston’s Armored Car Robber to Cold-Blooded Crime?
I’m not sure I’ve ever come across a criminal as diabolical and ruthless as Houston’s Redrick “Red” Batiste, who robbed armored cars and murRead More…
Texas May Outlaw Unsolicited Sexual Images. Would That Be Enforceable—and Does It Even Matter?
On Monday, Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd testified before the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence committee about an issue that any woman Read More…
The Tragic Tale of Zero the Hero Dog
Before we start, I should warn you that this story—the story of a hero named Zero, who died last week in Houston—may break your heart. We say thinRead More…
UT Has No Records Matching $500,000 “Donated” by Nonprofit Implicated in Bribery Scheme
A nonprofit that was allegedly used to funnel bribes allowing rich parents to fraudulently get their kids accepted to elite universities had earmarkedRead More…
The College Admissions Bribery Scandal Has Some Texas Connections
Federal prosecutors unsealed hundreds of pages of court documents on Tuesday indicting dozens of people in a massive alleged bribery scheme, implicatiRead More…
When Does an Accident Become a Crime?
It was dark when James Fulton climbed into his white Dodge Ram 1500 pickup on the evening of May 14, 2016. He and his friends Mark Warren and Dave MoRead More…