Adding to their dismay was the fact that both killings took place on Interstate 10--which passes five miles south of town on its run between Los Angeles and Jacksonville--and the fact that all but one of the people involved were not even Monticello folks. “We don’t deserve to be known...
He launched a nationally praised regional anti-drug task force and created an advisory council of influential private donors who contributed millions of dollars for programs and equipment in his DNA crime lab. His pet campaign, the Drug Abuse Is Life Abuse program in many county schools, earned ...
” said Howard, speaking in the Travis County jail a couple of weeks before the sentencing, while recounting the night of April 11, 1992. “I watched him get out of his car in my side view mirror, and I was so hyped up, I just snapped. I jacked a...