In my naive denial, I had wanted to see him as a hapless ne’er-do-well, a nonconformist with a streak of dishonesty. I liked to think of him as a latter-day Robin Hood. Now I knew that wasn’t true.

In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.

How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?

Christopher Daniels’ political beliefs got him in trouble. Though the FBI won’t comment, he is likely the first person ever imprisoned for being a “black identity extremist.”

Neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies and paralyzed patients across Texas.

A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.

Ira Tobolowsky, a prominent lawyer, was burned alive in his North Dallas garage. A strong suspect quickly emerged. So why can’t the cops solve the case?

The doctor who worked on both Kennedy and Oswald tells his story.

How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.

Who killed Jean Hope in 1970?

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill his wife.

He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.

A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.

Sandra Bridewell, a Dallas socialite, and the people around her who keep dying.

What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.

Marion and Larry Pollard live in the suburbs. They have eight grandkids and a terrier named Bella. They can also expel demons and save your soul.

The disturbing double life of a popular English teacher.

Meet Ladar Levison, Edward Snowden’s email provider.

On the deadly explosion in West, Texas.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

For 12 days she was tortured and raped by a former neighbor, who strung her up on a deer-skinning device. On the fourth day, she forgave him.

An interview:

Watkins: And then, all of a sudden, you notice that it appears that he is falling asleep and gasping for air—like he is snoring, basically. You could classify it as snoring or as gasping for air. You see his chest moving, and then I guess very quickly—maybe two minutes in—his chest stops moving. And we stand there, I guess, for another 10 minutes, and everybody is just kind of standing there. D Magazine: In total silence? Watkins: No one’s talking. No one’s saying anything. And then you notice that the condemned, he starts to turn this bluish color. So I guess that’s when all his functions have stopped. And then a doctor walks in and takes his vital signs and announces that the person is—he looks at the clock and announces, “The person died at 6:22.” And then they open the door and we all walk out.

Before I met Robert Jeffress, I wanted to hate him. Jeffress is the conservative preacher who made national headlines in October, when he called Mormonism a cult. He’s the senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas, the oldest megachurch in America, and I am certainly not a Baptist. He endorsed Rick Perry for president, and I’m definitely no fan of Perry’s. As a matter of fact, Robert Jeffress and I probably disagree on every major political and religious issue. And yet, I really, really like him.