For over 30 years Skip Hollandsworth has been a master storyteller at "Texas Monthly." He’s been investigating and telling the stories of Texas true crime with a keen eye for detail and a way of getting people to spill the tea. We hear from Skip about his new book “She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales."
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A new FRONTLINE documentary examines Ecuador’s rapid descent from one of South America’s most peaceful nations into a country gripped by violent conflict driven by the international drug trade.
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Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
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The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death of Regina Santos-Aviles, a congressional staffer for U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales, a suicide by self-immolation.
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A Bexar County jury on Monday acquitted three former San Antonio Police Department officers in the 2023 shooting death of Melissa Perez, a woman experiencing a mental health crisis.
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The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson's execution to consider the use of "junk science" in his conviction, the state's highest criminal court denied a Dallas County man's challenge to the use of what his attorneys say is flawed eyewitness testimony in his case.
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Two former officers face murder charges and a third faces an aggravated assault charge over the shooting and killing of Perez during an apparent mental health crisis. Officers claim self-defense.
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In a dramatic turnaround, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a halt to the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson which was scheduled to take place in seven days.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of Robert Roberson a week before it was scheduled to occur.
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Former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales' trial—connected to the Uvalde Robb Elementary School shooting—is moved to Nueces County and is set to begin on Jan. 5, 2026.
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The case is attracting attention from across the nation, even among supporters of capital punishment, who are calling for a halt to Roberson’s execution.