Kidnapping Shatters Texas Neighborhood; Worry Grows Girl Abducted by Man in PickupThe streets where 9-year-old Amber Hagerman and her friends play were unusually quiet Monday. Two days earlier, they had echoed with her screams as she fought a man who dragged her into his truck....
On Feb. 27, an employee from the DA’s office reported to a courthouse deputy that the building had been burglarized the day before, just after 4 a.m.Surveillance footagereportedly shows a man in the alley behind the office near the Sally Port dock area. The suspect appears to approach t...
Those executed have ranged from relatively common cases -- robbers who killed store clerks, drug users who killed other drug users, spouses killing each other -- to the bizarre and sensational. Ronald Clark O'Bryan, nicknamed the "Candy Man," poisoned his son's Halloween candy to coll...
More Food Truck FOOD!! Well, ya just really need to sample a little of it all, ya know? So we did. These are from the Ol' Man's BBQ food truck. Nachos with their from-scratch chili, covered with cheese and sour cream--and fresh onion, too. OH. MY. GOSH. Plenty of Seating to...
agriculture, and led to at least 1,200 deaths. Another remarkable thing about the 1980 drought wasthe media coverage, which became obsessive. As the U.S. media ran out of coverage ideas while the drought and heatwave dragged on for months, media crews from all over the world stepped on ...
Investigators say the killer dragged Melanie's body off the canal path removed her clothes and dressed her in that teal bodysuit. Peter Van Sant: Along with the stabbing and the dismemberment, there was another component to these murders, wasn't there?
On the night of June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, waskidnappedby three white men, chained by the ankles to the back of a pickup truck, and dragged for three-and-a-half miles down a road in Jasper, Texas. He died from decapitation when he hit a culvert du...
and fled on horseback. A posse of citizens and Texas Rangers captured the pair that night hiding in a thicket outside of town. The next day, after the Rangers departed, the anger of the townspeople turned to violence. On the night of Feb. 26, a mob dragged the prisoners from the jail...
That was when the little woman with the cane nudged through the crowd and stood at the rock ledge by Hunter. Hardin backed from her, making a sound almost like a hiss. The woman said to him, “It is time for you to leave.” She didn’t shout it, but the man left without another...
Between December 1884 and December 1885, at least seven women and one man were dragged out of their beds as they slept before being stabbed to death. While the crime remains technically unsolved, a 19-year-old named Nathan Elgin is strongly suspected. Elgin had connections to all the ...