In the days after Christmas in 1990, a quiet settled over a West Odessa home on Clendenin Street. The people Kathleen lived ...

The third and final suspect in a notorious East Texas quintuple homicide has been identified 42 years after the investigation ...

Devan Riggs was identified as the last of three men tied to the grisly killings of five people who had been abducted from the ...

The family of Walton Sanchez hopes to find some closure in the death of their loved one. Walton Sanchez, also known as Pinky, ...

The Travis County District Attorney’s Office says it's taken the “first step" in legally clearing the names of the four men previously accused of killing four teenage girls at the I Can’t Believe It’s ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A professor in Texas has become an unlikely detective on as many as 200 criminal cases, according to Texas A&M University. Dr. Jeff Tomberlin utilizes entomology and the insect ...

A Texas man was found guilty of murder on Dec. 10 after fatally shooting a man who tried to intervene during an altercation ...

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Authorities are offering up to $75,000 for information leading to the suspect in the death of Henry Gutierrez Jr., whose slaying has eluded investigators for 10 years.

Benson, from Texas, has been charged with attempted mayhem, per a Biloxi Police Department press release The razor blades ...

The family of a woman is speaking out after her body was found in a barrel dumped by the side of a highway in Texas. On the ...

Many celebrities have met violent ends over the years, the latest being director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.