Blood Will Tell
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Joe Bryan was released from prison earlier this week.
Pamela Colloff
He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a Man to His Death.
Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
The Innocent Man
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.
How prosecutors used bloodstain-pattern analysis to convict an innocent woman of murdering her son.
Blood Will Tell: Part One
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
A Kiss Before Dying
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.”
The Reckoning
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.
Unholy Act
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.
To Love and to Cherish
The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.
The Witness
A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
A Murder in Waurika
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
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A Bend in the River
How the body of 16-year-old Heather Rich ended up in Belknap Creek and how the cops found the boys who put it there.
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A Question of Mercy
[sub req'd] More than fifteen years after prosecuting Rich's killers, a district attorney has second thoughts about one of the defendants.
The Guilty Man
Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.
Lip Shtick
Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.
96 Minutes
An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
Hannah and Andrew
In October 2006 a four-year-old from Corpus Christi named Andrew Burd died mysteriously of salt poisoning. His foster mother, Hannah Overton, was charged with capital murder, vilified from all quarters, and sent to prison for life. But was this churchgoing young woman a vicious child killer? Or had the tragedy claimed its second victim?
Church Burners
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Flesh and Blood
Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?
Innocence Lost
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.
