Email Author John Nova Lomax

2012 Stories by John Nova Lomax

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  Houston Babylon: The 1970s Shotgun Death of Bonnie and Clyde Assistant William Daniel "Deacon" Jones

  published Oct 26, 2012

  Houston Babylon, the feature that came out earlier this week, dissects a few of the creepiest and most chilling events in Houston history. In coming up with four of those tales, we stumbled over many ... More >>

• Ten Houston Men Named (So Far) in Boy Scouts "Perversion Files"

  published Oct 26, 2012

  Since 1919 the Boy Scouts of America has maintained a database of "ineligible volunteers." Known informally as "the perversion files," the database contains the names of 5,000 men and a few women who ... More >>

• Don't Bother Voting: An East Texas Eggplant Has Foretold the Next President

  published Oct 25, 2012

  An East Texas woman claims that God has manifested Himself in her garden in the form of a miraculous eggplant that foretells the winner of the presidential election. Kathryn Murray of Broaddus in San... More >>

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  Houston Babylon: The Sad, Murky Demise of Lois Marie Gilbert

  published Oct 25, 2012

  Houston Babylon, the feature that came out yesterday, dissects a few of the creepiest and most chilling events in Houston history. In coming up with four of those tales, we stumbled over many more -- ... More >>

• Cover Story: Houston Babylon, a Collection of Houston's Creepiest Tales

  published Oct 24, 2012

  After my editor assigned me to write up a collection of some of Houston's creepiest tales for this week's cover story Houston Babylon, I took to Facebook for some group-sourcing of ideas and leads. Th... More >>

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  Houston Babylon: Dean Goss, Houston's Jackie Gleason, Houston's Bluebeard or Bothr

  published Oct 24, 2012

  Houston Babylon, the feature coming out this week, dissects a few of the creepiest and most chilling events in Houston history. In coming up with four of those tales, we stumbled over many more -- too... More >>

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  Early Victorian Houston and Texas: Suicide City for the Elite

  published Oct 23, 2012

  Houston Babylon, the feature coming out this week, dissects a few of the creepiest and most chilling events in Houston history. In coming up with four of those tales, we stumbled over many more -- t... More >>

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  Glenwood Cemetery's Avenging Angel: A Shooting Victim's Family's Vengeance Plot Fails

  published Oct 22, 2012

  Houston Babylon, the feature coming out this week, dissects a few of the creepiest and most chilling events in Houston history. In coming up with four of those tales, we stumbled over many more -- t... More >>

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  The Fabulous Baker Boys: Trailer Park Fracas Lands Three Brothers in Jail

  published Oct 22, 2012

  Three Corpus Christi brothers and an unrelated man spent the weekend in the Nueces County Jail after a trailer park donnybrook involving a gun, a baseball bat and an assault of a police officer. Acco... More >>

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  Jeremy Geffs, "Street Pharmacist": Tomball Hustla and Rockin' Facebooker, in Jail Again

  published Oct 22, 2012

  There ought to be a Failbook-like website for knuckleheads like Jeremy Geffs: oft-convicted criminals who continue to advertise their shenanigans on Facebook for all the world to see. With a criminal... More >>

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  Angela Buchanan: Posing As Gynecologist, She Tricks Woman into Months of Sex and a Civil Union

  published Oct 18, 2012

  We've heard some strange cases of online impersonation, but this one, as the Brits say, takes the biscuit. Last night Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News broke the story of Angela Buchanan, a 30-... More >>

• Shannon Marc McClure: Cops Say He Slammed Tot Head-First on Tiles

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Harris County sheriff's deputies say a Spring-area man intentionally dropped his common-law wife's three-year-old son on a tile floor. Shannon Marc McClure, 43, is charged with reckless injury to a ... More >>

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  Jeffie Melder: Threesome with Wife, 8-Year-Old Boy Sends Him to Prison for a Long, Long Time

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Jeffie Dennis Melder may well be one of the most disgusting men ever to appear on this blog. Earlier this week, a courtroom heard that the Groveton tugboat operator coerced his wife, 31-year-old Shel... More >>

• Mom Goes Undercover to Take Down Choir Teacher / Would-Be Facebook Child Predator

  published Oct 16, 2012

  A Rio Grande Valley middle school choir teacher was arrested after a mom caught him trying to arrange a sexual encounter with her 12-year-old daughter via Facebook. According to Valleycentral.com, ... More >>

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  Jack Logan, Registered Sex Offender, Violates Protective Order AND Leaves Kiddy Porn-Filled Laptop at Estranged Wife's Home

  published Oct 15, 2012

  After he'd been convicted of assaulting his wife twice, Jack Edward Logan thought it would be a good idea to just go ahead and violate the protective order she'd taken out against him. That was bad i... More >>

• Kingwood Mom Shauna Michelle Richardson Racks Up Second Felony DWI Charge in Three Weeks

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Less than three weeks ago, Shauna Michelle Richardson was charged with DWI after she reportedly passed out repeatedly while attempting to order and pay for a meal at a McDonald's drive-thru. Since sh... More >>

• Robert Emerson Robinson, Juvie Jailer, Accused of Trading Candy for Inmate Sex

  published Oct 11, 2012

  A jailer at the Harris County Juvenile Justice Center has confessed to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old inmate at the Congress Street facility this May. A juvenile sex crimes investigator stated th... More >>

• Laura Lee Day, Wicked Stepmother, Charged in Connection with Drowning of 6-Year-Old Stepson

  published Oct 11, 2012

  At first, the death of six-year-old Taylor Syring seemed like just another example of a tragedy that is all too common on Texas beaches: a young child gets a little too far out in the surf, a parent g... More >>

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  Linda Hall Jones: Pepper-Sprays Sassy Tween Girl, Abilene Police Say

  published Oct 10, 2012

  An altercation near the downtown Abilene Rodeway Inn ice machine has landed a 65-year-old woman in jail and a 12-year-old girl in a (temporary) world of hurt. According to Big Country Homepage, Linda... More >>

• Michael "Propostris" Veytovich: World of Warcraft and Hip-Hop Parodist Accused of Vile Sex Crimes

  published Oct 09, 2012

  The front Michael "Propostris" Veytovich presented to the world was a jolly and humorous one, if deeply immature for someone in his mid-30s. A struggling voice actor and part-time rapper who apparentl... More >>

• Roger Dean Matice: River Oaks Man Latest Prominent Houstonian Caught in Child Porn Dragnet

  published Oct 09, 2012

  A 70-year-old River Oaks custom kitchen and bathroom designer was caught possessing and promoting child pornography, according to Harris County Sheriff's Office investigators. Roger Dean Matice was t... More >>

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  Sean Payne: Humble Man Too Drunk To Pose for His Mugshot

  published Oct 05, 2012

  A man police found early Thursday outside Shamrocks Pub in Humble was so drunk, police had to hold his head up for his mugshot. Sean Carl Payne, 35 and of Humble, was charged with public intoxication... More >>

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  "Leave Or Die Fags": Message Scrawled on Gay Texas Couple's Porch

  published Oct 03, 2012

  A gay couple from the Panhandle woke to find a threatening message painted on their porch, and they think the perpetrator was egged on by an anti-gay and blatantly political newspaper ad taken out by ... More >>

• Justin Rowe -- When Keepin' It Real Goes Wrong, Volume XXXIV: Keying a Cop Car With A Cop Inside

  published Oct 02, 2012

  What is it with Trinity County ne'er-do-wellsr They can't seem to refrain from taunting cops in utterly asinine ways. Four months ago, there was Jonathan Thompson, a frequent miscreant who deemed it ... More >>

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  Stormy Christopher Smith: Splendora Dandy Is a Skyperv, Police Say

  published Oct 02, 2012

  In June, after the 15-year-old Humble girl at the center of these alleged crimes ran away from home to be with her secret boyfriend, 23-year-old Stormy Christopher Smith of Splendora, the girl's fathe... More >>