How a loving daughter and star student stole barium acetate from her high school chemistry lab, put it in her father’s refried beans, and almost got away with murder.

Odessa High School students know her as “Betty,” a ghost that haunts the auditorium at night.  But few know much about the real Betty, whose 1961 murder was “the most sensational crime in West Texas in its day.”

After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

A profile of Candy Barr—porn star pioneer, burlesque legend, Texas folk hero.

Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, who left Pro-Choice activism for born-again Christianity and a strange life of financial opportunism, died this week.

Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.

Surveillance as daily life along the Texas border.

Paramedics pick up the pieces on the Texas-Mexico border.

On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.

Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman entered the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Building. Armed with a number of rifles, he proceeded to kill 14 people and wound 32. Among them was a pregnant Claire Wilson.

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

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

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.

Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.

A Texas love story.

On the ground with a young Texas doctor who travels the state to provide abortions.

When rival gangs confronted each other in the parking lot of a Hooters-esque restaurant, bullets flew. But was the whole a police setup?

Hanging out with a member of the paranoid, nativist extreme right-wing.

An investigation into the mass graves in Texas that contain the remains of migrants.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.