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UPDATE: Dallas Man Executed For Killing Daughters While Mom Listened
Posted on · His was the nation's third execution this year, all in Texas
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Texas Executes Dallas Man For Killing Ex-Girlfriend In 1999
Posted on · William Rayford is the nation's second inmate put to death this year
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Mexico Registers Its Highest Homicides On Record
Posted on · The country racked up nearly 30,000 homicides in 2017, the most since it began reporting the statistic in 1997. But that doesn't make it the "most dangerous" country as President Trump claimed
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UPDATE: HPD Arrests 28 Year-Old Woman Regarding Murder And Baby Abduction Case In Southwest Houston
Posted on · Chief Art Acevedo says suspect Erika Gisela Miranda-Alvarez had known Carolina Miranda Flores, stabbed mother of Shamali Flores, for about five years
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Texas Executes Robert Pruett, Who Insisted On Innocence In Prison Guard’s Murder
Posted on · Robert Pruett spent the last 15 years of his life insisting he was innocent of the murder of prison guard Daniel Nagle. On Thursday night, he was executed
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Texas Prisoner Responds To Theory That He’s Responsible For Galveston Serial Murders
Posted on · Is Edward Harold Bell a serial killer who preyed on young women around Galveston in the 1970s – or is he just the subject of a vast conspiracy?
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Harris County Case Raises Questions About The Use Of Deadly Force
Posted on · Sheriff's Deputy Chauna Thompson and her husband Terry Thompson are charged with murder in the strangulation death of a man outside a northeast Harris County restaurant. 24-year-old John Hernandez died after an altercation which was caught on video.
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Prosecutors: Times Square Driver Wanted To ‘Kill Them All’
Posted on · The driver of the vehicle Richard Rojas appeared in court today as prosecutors detailed his felony charge
Houston Matters
Investigators Think They Know Who Killed Eleven Girls Around Galveston in the 1970s
Posted on · In the 1970s, in and around Galveston, teenage girls started going missing – sometimes in pairs. Many of their bodies would turn up in swamps, marshes and bodies of water in places like Clear Lake and Texas City. Those murders — along with a cluster of others over the years along Interstate 45 between Houston […]
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Manhunt Expanded for Suspect in Facebook Video Killing
Posted on · The suspect for a supposedly random killing that was posted to Facebook is still at large and authorities have expanded the search
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UPDATE: Likely Murder-Suicide at School Kills 2 Adults, Hurts 2 Kids
Posted on · Apparent murder suicide in San Bernardino California
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Alleged Killer of Deputy Greenwood Committed Suicide
Posted on · The motives that could have led to the shooting remain unknown.
Houston Matters
True Crime Author Examines the Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder
Posted on · You might recall a rather unusual murder case that made headlines in 2013. University of Houston professor Stefan Andersson was killed with a high-heel, stiletto shoe by his former girlfriend Ana Trujillo. True crime writer Kathryn Casey has written an account of the case called Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder. She tells Houston Matters […]
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Murder & Mayhem in Houston: Book Tells of Forgotten Bayou City Crimes
Posted on · Many of us are familiar with some of the most notorious crimes in Houston history, especially those in the last couple decades. But not every case has a book written about it or a movie made – or some have simply faded from memory over time. And those are the stories John Nova Lomax and […]
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New Laws, Pearland and Texans Preview: Monday’s Show (August 31, 2015)
Posted on · Starting tomorrow (9/1/15), the majority of the laws passed during the state’s 84th legislative session will take effect. All this month, the Texas Tribune has reported how these new laws may change some Texans’ lives. We discuss how on this edition of Houston Matters, as we welcome your questions for Texas Tribune Managing Editor Ayan Mittra. Also […]