
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.
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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.
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.
Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2019 55min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Dec 2012 1h50min Permalink
How prosecutors used bloodstain-pattern analysis to convict an innocent woman of murdering her son.
Pamela Colloff ProPublica Dec 2018 20min Permalink
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?
Pamela Colloff ProPublica May 2018 45min Permalink
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.”
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Feb 2006 30min Permalink
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.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2016 50min Permalink
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.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Apr 2005 30min Permalink
The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2015 40min Permalink
A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Sep 2014 40min Permalink
Two reports, twelve years apart, on the killing of a high school cheerleader in a small Oklahoma town and its aftermath.
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.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jul 2002 – Mar 2014 1h5min Permalink
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.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2013 25min Permalink
Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Sep 2003 15min Permalink
An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Aug 2006 40min Permalink
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?
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jan 2012 50min Permalink
Early last year, 10 churches were torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly May 2011 30min Permalink
Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Jun 2009 35min Permalink
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.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Apr 2011 55min Permalink