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

Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.

Sandy Jenkins was a shy, daydreaming accountant at the Texas headquarters of Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous fruitcake company. He was tired of feeling invisible, so he started stealing — and got a little carried away.

On tour with a man who has claimed to kill Bigfoot three different times.

For almost 20 years, Greg Torti has lived the life of a convicted sex offender—carrying a blue ID card with him at all times, avoiding schools and parks, living on the outskirts of town. It’s a just punishment for the crime, he says. It’s just that he didn’t commit it.

While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.

A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.

The meaning of Selena, 20 years after her death.

After a member of the Church of Wells abruptly left the group (which may or may not be a cult), many held out hope. A week later she went back, and the church’s elders are eager to explain why.

Previously: Sinners in the Hands

The Bandidos, Texas’s biggest motorcycle gang, say goodbye to one of their own.

A doctor loses the woman of his dreams and hires a broke friend to help get her back. The plan is to prank her new boyfriend. Today, they’re in jail for murder.

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Inside the world of underground sex trafficking in Houston.

The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.

The life of Reverend Charles Moore, who died by self-immolation in the parking lot of a Texas strip mall.

The mystery of a death in Dallas.

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Navigating the bureaucratic welfare maze while raising a family.

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.

Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.

A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”

An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.

In the summer of 1982, three Waco teenagers were savagely murdered for no apparent reason. Four men were ultimately charged with the crime. One was executed, two others were given life sentences, and a fourth was sent to death row only to be released after six years. They all may have been innocent.