Texas Monthly
Friday, April 22

Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.


Thursday, April 21

How two love-struck, type A high schoolers almost got away with murder.


Saturday, April 9

The story of dog-scent lineup innovator Keith Pikett and the not-so-scientific science behind forensics.


Thursday, March 24

The story of Dean Corll and his accomplices, who killed over 20 teenage boys in the Heights neighborhood of Houston in the early 1970s, and the families searching for their missing sons.


Friday, March 11
via via J. Silverstein

Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?


Thursday, November 18

On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.


Monday, October 25

A charming assistant funeral home director in a small Texas town murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town’s sympathy as his case goes to trial.


Monday, October 4

A pair of undercover cops infiltrate a dogfighting ring in Houston.


Tuesday, September 14

In 1992, Anthony Graves was arrested for brutally murdering a family in the middle of night. He had no motive. There was no physical evidence. The only witness recanted. And yet Graves remains behind bars.


Monday, August 23

The life and death of Johnny Romano, the youngest pro skateboarder ever.


Tuesday, August 3
via From the Archives

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his unique, lifelong obsession.


Tuesday, May 11
/ / Nov 2004
via via @heavy

In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made.