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An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
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An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Aug 2006 40min Permalink
The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.
Helen Thorpe Texas Monthly Mar 1997 30min Permalink
Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect—unless you knew about his unique, lifelong obsession.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 1993
How two love-struck, type-A high-schoolers almost got away with murder.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 1996 40min
A charming assistant funeral home director in a small Texas town 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.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jan 1998 20min
Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 1998 30min
Peggy Jo Tallas, a soft-spoken bachelorette, spent much 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
The story of Dean Corll and his accomplices, who killed more than 20 teenage boys in the Heights neighborhood of Houston in the early 1970s, and the families searching for their missing sons.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2011
May 1993 – Apr 2011 Permalink
On a 1955 ferris wheel accident.
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Oct 2005 25min Permalink
A profile of Candy Barr—porn star pioneer, burlesque legend, Texas folk hero.
Gary Cartwright Texas Monthly Dec 1976 40min Permalink
The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Mar 2015 40min Permalink
Surveillance as daily life along the Texas border.
Sasha von Oldershausen Texas Monthly Aug 2016 10min Permalink
The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.
Abigail Pesta Texas Monthly Oct 2017 30min Permalink
A profile of Rick Perry.
Patricia Kilday Hart Texas Monthly Oct 2000 20min Permalink
A season with the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.
Bryan Curtis Texas Monthly Jan 2013 35min Permalink
A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Jan 2014 35min Permalink
How volunteer firefighters responded to a lethal West, Texas explosion.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Sep 2013 35min Permalink
The plot to turn Texas blue.
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Aug 2013 30min Permalink
Love and loss on the Texas Panhandle plains.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2017 30min Permalink
An oral history of Hurricane Harvey.
Texas Monthly Sep 2017 50min Permalink
The life and times of Willie Nelson’s guitar.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of Cormac McCarthy–on the verge of fame.
Robert Draper Texas Monthly Jul 1992 10min Permalink
Thirty years after the murder in Abilene, the question remains unanswered.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Nov 2011 35min Permalink
The story behind the story that ended Dan Rather’s career.
Joe Hagan Texas Monthly May 2012 40min Permalink
The Bandidos, Texas’s biggest motorcycle gang, say goodbye to one of their own.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Apr 2007 25min Permalink
The meaning of Selena, 20 years after her death.
Jeff Winkler Texas Monthly Sep 2015 35min Permalink
A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.
Leif Reigstad Texas Monthly May 2019 25min Permalink
An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Nate Blakeslee Texas Monthly May 2014 25min Permalink
Allegations of child sexual and Satanic ritual abuse overtake an Austin suburb.
Gary Cartwright Texas Monthly Apr 1994 55min Permalink
A profile of legendary Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2002 25min Permalink