Subject: Murder and Homicide

• Killing the Messenger: the Numbers

  August 12, 2007

• Rap-a-Lot’s J. Prince Sues Apple, BET

  December 19, 2007

• Waldhauser Watch

  A story about the new life and old ways of a notorious killer spurs indictments and national coverage

  December 30, 1999

• The Killer Next Door

  He left clues all over, but it still took investigators years to unmask the serial murderer in their midst

  July 29, 2004

• Crime & Punishment

  March 24, 1994

• Killer Behind the Badge

  January 12, 1995

• Autopsy

  January 25, 1996

• Blood Feud

  May 30, 1996

• The Victim's Victims

  October 17, 1996

• Gayland's Choice

  November 14, 1996

• Blood Sport

  November 21, 1996

• Death of an Informant

  July 24, 1997

• Dissecting Dr. Carter

  March 5, 1998

• An Open But Shut Case

  July 30, 1998

• Making a Killing

  October 22, 1998

• A Killer By Any Other Name

  November 19, 1998

• Heartburn Can Be Murder

  May 27, 1999

• Killer On The Loose

  June 24, 1999

• J.T. Ellison and Laura Bendict

  January 8, 2009

• Robert Crais

  Did everything go horribly, horribly wrong in Chasing Darkness?

  July 24, 2008

• What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know: Cataloguing Grief

  Magazine crews and their managers are no strangers to trouble

  July 17, 2008

• 12 Angry Men

  The jury’s in on this theater classic

  April 10, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

  January 3, 2008

• Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile”

  A girl-kills-boy tale for summer

  July 5, 2007

• Murder by Numbers

  "Frontera 450+" records the unsolved killings of women in Juárez, Mexico

  January 25, 2007

• Parts Unknown

  Did Donnie Riley kill Tarron Dixon, or was he shooting at someone else in a different Houston neighborhood that night 13 years ago?

  October 14, 2004

• A Very Good Year

  Inmate Beckcom gets his term reduced for his work in the Prible case

  March 27, 2003

• The Devil You Say

  Was Jeffery Prible the cold-blooded murderer of an entire family? Or the gullible target of an opportunistic jailhouse informant?

  December 5, 2002

• Downfall 2012, with Pimpadelic

  Friday, November 29

  November 28, 2002

• An Absolute Maybe

  There's little doubt that Johnnie Bernal was not a really good guy. The question remains, though, how bad was he?

  August 8, 2002

• Murder, She Testified

  A federal grand jury aims at a fledgling author's notes in a long-running murder probe

  July 19, 2001

• Curses! Foiled Again

  Houston killer Davis gets no deal on his plan to pare back his punishment

  May 17, 2001

• The Private Trial of Donald Davis

  A Houston attorney who specialized in saving killers' lives couldn't handle his own. So he took it.

  November 30, 2000

• Payback Time

  The latest victims of death merchant Davis will recoup their losses - when he's dead

  June 8, 2000

• Death (Row) Watch

  Odell Barnes joins a growing list of death row inmates whose convictions have become a lot less clear-cut during the appeals process.

  January 27, 2000

• Killing Time

  The case against him died from lack of evidence. But Texas still plans to execute Odell Barnes.

  January 27, 2000

• News of the Weird

  June 17, 1999

• Coming to No Good End

  Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

  May 13, 1999

• Bloodletting?

  The medical examiner's controversial DNA expert is fired... for doing her job

  January 9, 1997

• A Bad Place to Be Tried

  October 27, 1994

• Defending the Indefensible

  Do court-appointed attorneys serve their clients or the courts?

  February 10, 1994

• Bayou Body Count: Death Doesn't Take A Holiday

  Unfortunately, murder doesn't recognize holiday weekends, as evidenced by the following homicide investigations recently opened by area law enforcement.A man was killed following a shootout with Humble police late this morning. Details are limited, but the incident occurred outside an employment officer in the 9800 block of FM 1960 Bypass, according to Humble police. An officer working an extra job at a nearby bank responded to a call of a man with a gun holding a female hostage. The officer obs

  May 26, 2009

• Houston Man In Center Of Florida Cold Case, Raising Questions Of Justice

  MartinThis item is by Thomas Francis, a writer for our sister paper in Broward County/ Palm Beach, Florida. It's about a Houston guy, so we present it here for your perusal.An arrest in a cold case is supposed to be an occasion for celebrating the enduring cause of justice. There is no statute of limitations (da-DUM!!) for murder. That applies even after you've left the state where it happened to start a new life a thousand miles away. Still, on one afternoon nearly 26 years after the last

  June 29, 2009

• The Chevy Cobalt: Not So Safe After All

  There's nothing wrong with the Chevy Cobalt. It's an affordable little car that gets pretty good gas mileage on the highway, but is it really worth killing over? According to Houston police, the answer appears to be yes. Huu Khanh Phung, 55, was in his silver-colored Cobalt near the intersection of Cullen and Almeda Genoa in south Houston at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday morning when suddenly a man jumped out of a minivan and approached Phung. Police say witnesses tell them that they heard sev

  July 17, 2009

• Two Cousins Nabbed In Mexico For Separate Houston Murders

  ​Two men wanted for separate Houston murders were caught together in Guadalajara, Mexico yesterday afternoon. The crimes, which occurred about two years apart, were unrelated. The suspected killers are cousins. "Murder runs in this family," said homicide detective Michael Miller of the Houston Police Department at a press conference this afternoon. Timoteo Rios, 24, was wanted for the April 2008 slaying of Tina Davila. Davila was stabbed and killed outside a cell phone store when she refused

  August 12, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Sometimes The Cases Are Easy, Sometimes Not

  courtesy of HCSOSandra Martinez​It may seem like it sometimes, but not all murders in Houston go unsolved.Take, for instance, a case last Friday inside a home at 10727 Lumber Ridge Trail. Sandra Martinez and her husband, Cesar Barrera, had been arguing most of the night when at about 9:30 p.m. Barrera decided to go to bed.Simple enough.But then Martinez allegedly snuck into the closet, took Barrera's handgun and then put it to use. Investigators say Martinez, 36, shot her husband in the head w

  September 10, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: A Hatchet Man And A Cold Case

  courtesy of HPDMelchor Izquierdo​There is a hatchet-man killer hiding in Houston. The cops know who he is, but not where to find him.Police are hunting for Melchor Izquierdo, 29, charged with murder in the slaying of Estevan Tellez back on September 14. Tellez, 42, who worked at a foundation business at 5562 Gasmer, was found dead by co-workers. He was sitting in the cab of a dump truck with several deep gashes in his face. A hatchet was lying nearby.Detectives later determined that the allege

  October 5, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Houstonians Finally Get Back To Killing Each Other

  ​Less than a week ago, Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt zipped off a news release proudly reporting that for the first time in memory there had been no reported murders in the city for 10 straight days."HPD's veteran Homicide investigators cannot recall a single week in the past decade without a murder in Houston," Hurtt said. "We welcome this lull in violent crime."That lull -- stretching from October 10 through 20 -- is now over, and Houston residents are back to their normal, killing ways.

  October 26, 2009

• Friends Can Be Cruel

  courtesy of HPD Moses Reed​Houston police have closed the books on yet another homicide after tracking down the final suspect in a deadly carjacking.Moses Reed, 17, was arrested last week and charged with murder for the July 15 slaying of 53-year-old Huu Khanh Phung. Detectives had previously arrested a juvenile on the same charge who was allegedly connected to the killing.Police say that Phung was driving along in a silver Chevy Cobalt when he stopped at a red light at the interse

  November 2, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Burning Down The House

  ​There's the guy who allegedly drove over a woman and then there's the fellow who allegedly shot three dudes and burned the house down.Yes, these are just a few of the many murders that the hard-working Houston homicide detectives have ostensibly solved over the past week. It started out as just a fender-bender near 190 Meyerland Plaza on Saturday afternoon. George Theobald had crashed into the car of Brenda Romano of Yoakum, Texas and Robyn Romano, who lives in Houston. Police say the driv

  November 18, 2009