Crime
333 stories
Home Away From Home? »
Texas’ largest nursing home chain says it provides a “better place to live” for more than six thousand elderly men and women. State investigators tell a much different story.
November 1998 by Skip Hollandsworth
Plausible Deniability »
The CIA Theory
November 1998
The Conspiracy Theories »
JFK was killed by (a) the mob, (b) Castro, (c) the FBI, (d) the CIA, or (e) none of the above? Decide for yourself.
November 1998 by Pamela Colloff and Michael Hall
Fight Back »
Combating violence in our schools
October 1998 by Janet Heimlich
LAW • Karla Faye Tucker »
A matter of life and death.
September 1998 by Gregory Curtis
WHISTLE-BLOWER • Jennifer Long »
Auditing the IRS.
September 1998 by Gary Cartwright
Jewel of the Forest »
Jasper in black and white.
August 1998 by Paul Burka
Contrition »
Inmates apologize to the families of their victims.
August 1998 by Pamela Colloff
Defending Lance »
Defending the boy who killed his father; Ivan Rodriguez is a hit.
August 1998
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Ricky Ross »
The East Texas native was the most prolific drug dealer of his generation. Now he’s in jail for life, but he says he’s freer than ever.
July 1998 by Jesse Katz
Brave and Selfless »
Crime in Mexico hits home.
June 1998 by Gregory Curtis
Honor Thy Father »
In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.
June 1998 by Skip Hollandsworth
The Fall of the Last Patrón. »
Even by South Texas standards, the undoing of Starr County sheriff Eugenio Falcón, Jr., was one for the books.
June 1998 by Helen Thorpe
Tax Moncrief »
Inside Tex Moncrief’s IRS mess.
June 1998 by Evan Smith
Oh, Brother »
A River Oaks bookie is tried for murder.
June 1998 by Skip Hollandsworth
The Hero Had Two Faces »
For fifteen years Galveston knew Tim Kingsbury as a civic leader and do-gooder. Then the wife—and life—he deserted back in Ohio caught up with him in Texas.
May 1998 by Paul Burka
The Newton Boys »
What kind of getaway car was preferred by the bank-robbing Newton Boys?
May 1998 by Anne Dingus
Whodunit? »
The mysterious murder of a small-town mayor.
May 1998 by Pamela Colloff
The Needle and the Damage Done »
In 1979, as an undercover cop in Tyler, I got hooked on drugs. Nearly two decades later I’m clean, but the consequences of my addiction haunt me still.
April 1998 by Kim Wozencraft
Taxi Driver »
I was my own boss, set my own hours, and came and went as I pleased. I was a Houston cabbie, and though it was hack work—literally—it paid the bills.
April 1998 by Ted Streuli
The Contender »
He may soon compete for the super featherweight championship of the world, but for now Austin boxer Jesus Chavez is in the fight of his life—with federal immigration officials.
April 1998 by Jan Reid
The Last Posse »
After thieves stole his daughter’s horse, deputy U.S. marshal Parnell McNamara didn’t make a federal case out of it. Instead, he rounded up a group of old-style lawmen and lit out after them.
March 1998 by Gary Cartwright
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