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DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Oct 2020 40min Permalink
Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Vivian Stephens helped turn romance writing into a billion-dollar industry. Then she got pushed out.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2020 35min Permalink
On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may not immediately proceed with its plan to end DACA
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2017 20min Permalink
But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.
Sarah Hepola Texas Monthly Jun 2020 30min Permalink
The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)
Dan Solomon, Paula Forbes Texas Monthly Mar 2020 20min Permalink
In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Mar 2020 45min Permalink
What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Jan 2020 35min Permalink
Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 30min Permalink
When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 15min Permalink
“What am I going to do? Because this isn’t fair. I deserve to have a life, to be functional. Well, I guess I’m going to stick myself with bees.”
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede 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. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min Permalink
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.
Wes Ferguson Texas Monthly Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2019 Permalink
It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Aug 2019 40min Permalink
In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.
Jamie Thompson Texas Monthly May 2016 40min Permalink
Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Nov 2005 35min Permalink
On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2009 30min Permalink
The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans? Though some will reap serious profits, the region’s dealing with skyrocketing rents, overcrowded schools, and potholes as big as VW Beetles.
Christian Wallace Texas Monthly Jun 2019 25min Permalink
A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.
Leif Reigstad Texas Monthly May 2019 25min Permalink
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2019 40min Permalink
The making of a convenience store empire.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2019 25min Permalink
While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Mar 2019 30min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Dec 2012 1h50min Permalink
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.
Ethan Watters Texas Monthly Oct 2018 1h10min Permalink