Elmer Wayne Henley

Pancho and Shorty

Pancho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Shorty, too. He just did what he had to do, and now he's growing old. The battle of barrio Christmas.

Houston Babylon

Four of the spookiest true tales in our city's history

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

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. That thread ballooned into an 158-post beast. Far too many good stories came in for me to include them ... More >>

Local Filmmaker Discovers Unknown Dean Corll/Elmer Wayne Henley Victim

Local filmmaker Josh Vargas set out to make a movie about the life of Houston serial killer Dean Corll, and ended up discovering evidence of a never-before identified victim. Now he and the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences are hoping you will be able to identify him. Forty years ago, Ho ... More >>

To Keep Your Daughter Out Of Jail, What Not To Name Her Is Crystal-Clear

​The other day, Hair Balls was discussing the case of Crystal Sosa with a friend.Sosa is a young prostitute. Two years ago, her dead infant was discovered stashed in the freezer of the motel where she was staying with her boyfriend. She was eventually convicted of nothing more serious than attempt ... More >>

Houston 101: Summer Of The Candy Man

​The late summer of 1973 was a strange, strange time in Houston. The handiwork of a sadistic mass murderer had been discovered, and as more and more bodies were found, the city and the local media couldn't get enough.Says one former Houstonian who was there:  When this thing broke, in early A ... More >>

Visitors' Guide

Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

Docket Rockers

Five lawyers and a homicide detective want to give you Death By Injection

Serial Killers On-line

Victim advocates condemn sales of murder-related items

It's Jackie's Neighborhood

Attention, drunks, drug runners, cactus thieves, and other enemies of Sunset Heights: Jackie Harris is looking for you. And she's got her machete.

The Reformist School

Letters

To Die For

A mass murderer forges a strange union with Houston crime victims

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Killer Art

Elmer Wayne Henley has some pictures he wants you to see

Autopsy

Since Dr. Joe retired as Harris Countys chief medical examiner, the morgue itself has been undergoing a critical examination. Whats been uncovered botched postmortems, illegal tissue-harvesting, double-dipping pathologists reveals a county office thats op

Letters

Talk Radio Takes Aim at the Bad Guys

Dan's the man behind a new anti-crime group