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Murder and Homicide

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Tina Madrid: Mother Charged with Murdering Her Special-Needs Son, Found in a Box

    The bizarre, tragic story of ten-year-old Jonathan Singer took another turn yesterday when police arrested his mother for his murder. The body of Singer, who had cerebral palsy, was found in a cardboard box in his father's Kia about one year ago. The boy's father said he had drowned in a bathtub, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Mayor, Police Chief Hail Cut in Murder Rate

    The count is down.​You're living in a safer place, Houstonians. Mayor Annise Parker and police chief Charles McClelland say so. Both officials touted a drop in the murder rate today, saying homicide in the city is lower than it's been in 40 years. HPD says there were 198 murders in 2011 acco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Gabriela Rodriguez, 31, Bayou Body Count 191

    Terri Ferguson faces murder charges.​Murder charges have been filed against a woman accused of driving drunk and killing another woman in September. Court documents show Terri Cox Ferguson, 51, has been charged with felony murder in the September 29 death of Gabriela Rodriguez. The documents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Steven Christopher Willis, 23: The Girlfriend Who Said He Accidentally Stabbed Himself Faces Murder Charges; Bayou Body Count No. 167

    Photo by HPDAngel Rankin: Wanted for murder after story fails to hold up.​When the story of Steven Christopher Willis's September 16 death first came out, we noted it raised a few questions. His girlfriend, Angel Lee Rankin, 34, said she had called Willis to come help her with her stalled car ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Unidentified Male Stabbed To Death, 32, Bayou Body Count No. 160

    A stabbing death at four in the morning​A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death in northwest Houston early Sunday morning, police say. They say the man, whose name has not been released pending notification of his family, stopped at a parking lot at 700 West Mount Houston about 4 in the mornin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Matthew David Johnson, 47, Bayou Body Count No. 162

    Photo by HPDFreddie Clark Jr. faces murder charges​A man was shot to death in his westside apartment and an arrest has been made in the case, Houston police say. Matthew David Johnson, 47, was shot in the chest in his apartment in the 11700 block of Southlake Drive about noon Thursday, Octobe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Jesus Enrique Hoffman, 38, Bayou Body Count No. 163

    Shot to death in a vacant lot.​A man was shot to death during an argument on the north side Sunday night, police say. Jesus Enrique Hoffman, 38, "had an argument with two unknown Hispanic males" in a vacant lot in the 8600 block of East Hardy about 8:40 p.m. last night, HPD says. "The argume ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Unidentified Male in Road-Rage Incident, Bayou Body Count No. 143

    Road rage leads to murder.​A man whose car was involved in a road-rage altercation was followed home and shot to death early Sunday morning, Houston police say. The man's identity was not released, but he was shot to death about 3:30 Sunday morning in an apartment complex on the southeast sid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Unidentifed Male Left For Dead Outside After-Hours Club, Bayou Body Count No. 136

    Left for dead outisde a nightclub​The body of a man who was shot to death was discovered outside a southwest-side after-hours club early Monday morning, but that's about all police know. The body was found about 6 a.m. Labor Day outside the La Raza Discotec on Hillcroft near Bellaire Boulevar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Michael Cortez, 22, Bayou Body Count No. 125

    Murder or suicide?​Houston homicide detectives are investigating a stabbing death last night that may be a suicide. Michael Cortez, 22, was found dead in an apartment in the 9400 block of Redford about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday. Police had been called to the southeast side residence on a suicide i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Daniel Pacheco: Teen Did Not Die In Tragic Gun Game, Cops Now Say; Shooter On The Run

    HPDChristian Mexa: Teen wanted on murder charges​Houston police initially said that Daniel Pacheco, 18, was killed July 10 when he and friends were drinking and passing around a gun someone thought was unloaded. Now the story's changed, and HPD is looking for Christian Meza, 19, who has been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Bernie's Burger Bus Employee Did Not Die In Tragic Gun Game, Cops Now Say; Shooter On The Run

    HPDChristian Meza: Teen wanted on murder charges​Although there was some confusion surrounding the death of Bernie's Burger Bus employee Daniel Pacheco, 18, Houston police initially said that Pacheco was killed July 10 when he and friends were drinking and passing around a gun someone thought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Unidentified Female, Bayou Body Count No. 77

    Found dead in a car​A woman was found shot to death in a car early this morning on the far southwest side of town, Houston police say. A man was walking his dog about 4 a.m. when he discovered the body in the 12200 block of Hodges and called 911. Police say the woman was shot at least twice. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Sherry White, 51 and Kyle Lavergne, 20, Bayou Body Count Nos. 68 and 69

    Double murder in Sunnyside​A man has been charged with capital murder in the killing of a Sunnyside woman and her son. Police say Jeffery Prevost, 51, shot Sherry White, 51 and her son Kyle Lavergne, 20, Saturday about noon. Police have told reporters that Prevost said he shot White, a girlf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Courtney Bell, 28, Bayou Body Count No. 51

    Argument leads to stabbing death.​A man was stabbed to death in the driveway of his southeast side home Sunday night, Houston police say. Courtney Bell, 28, got in an argument with two men about 10:30 last night and ended up stabbed several times. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital and pronoun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Unidentified Hispanic Female, Bayou Body Count No. 52

    Police hope someone will recognize this.​Police are looking for the public's help in identifying a woman stabbed to death on the southeast side Sunday night. The woman was found with multiple stab wounds in the Broadway Park Apartments in the 2500 block of Broadway about 11:45 p.m.; she was t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Sybil Berndt, 89, Left Dead on Floor for Months by Twin Sons, Bayou Body Count No. 48

    HPDEdward and Edwin Berndt​Two undeniably creep-looking twin brother have been charged with murder for letting their mother slowly die from neglect after she fell in her home near Hobby Airport, Houston police say. They then left her dead body on the floor for three months. Sybil Berndt, 89, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Rene Lopez: Caught Two Years After Murdering Boss

    HPDRene Lopez: Charged with murder after two years on the run​Andre Palacios ran an auto-repair business on the east side until he was gunned down at it in broad daylight a little over two years ago. The case has been open ever since, but Houston police announced today they have arrested a fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Archel Burrell, 44, Bayou Body Count No. 33

    Woman found in ditch ruled a homicide.​Rachel Burrell, 44, of Houston was found dead Friday, March 18 around 7:30 a.m. near 600 Altic. Initially, officers were uncertain as to the identity of the victim and the cause of death, but have since ruled it a homicide. The deceased was found in a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Justin Lipkins, 21, Bayou Body Count No. 4

    Shooting death after a fight​A fight on the southwest side led to a shooting death Friday night, police say. Houston police say Justin Lipkins, 21, "had been involved in a physical altercation" about 11 p.m. Friday and was then shot as he was nearing his apartment in the 9000 block of South ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Aaron Scheerhoorn: Suspect Arrested In His Montrose Death

    Photo courtesy HPDLydell Grant: Charged with Montrose stabbing death​HPD says they have the man who very publicly stabbed Aaron Scheerhoorn to death outside a Montrose nightclub last weekend. Lydell Grant, 33, has been charged with murder. Police got his identity through a Crime Stoppers tip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Beverly Hurts, 54, Bayou Body Count No. 272

    Photo courtesy HPDIsaiah Hurts, charged with murder​Beverly Hurts, 54, who had told others of years of physical abuse at the hands of her husband, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by that husband Saturday, police say. Isaiah Hurts, 55, has been charged with murder. Media reports say he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Dennis Ray Anderson: Body-In-A-Barrel Dude Hangs Himself

    Dennis Ray Anderson, murderer, takes his own life​Dennis Ray Anderson, the dangerous, hotly pursued convicted murderer who left a female corpse in a barrel in his back yard here, has been found hanged to death in a Florida motel room.Christina Garza of the Harris County Sheriff's Office says Frida ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Unidentified Male, Bayou Body Count No. 206

    ​Murder charges have been brought against Fredy Ramon Lagos in the stabbing death of an unidentified man Saturday night. Police say an argument between the two men that took place at an apartment complex in the 6300 block of West Bellfort around 11:00 PM escalated into a fist fight, then Lago ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Bridget Renee Jones, 46, Bayou Body Count No. 147

    Still on the run​A woman was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher in a robber on the south side.Joel Burt Thompkins, 47, is wanted in the death of Bridget Renee Jones, 46. She was discovered beaten near the door of her apartment in the 5800 block of Sunforest around 7:50 a.m. Friday.The body w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Cesar Hernandez, Bayou Body Count No. 144

    A stabbing on the west side​A man still on the run has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a westside man a week ago. Jose Domingo Sanchez, 30, is charged in the death of Cesar Hernandez, no age given. Hernandez suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at Memorial Herma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Favian Ramirez, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 128

    A very poor getaway attempt​Ineptitude reigned in a fracas that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old man on the southeast side.Favian Ramirez was shot at 1:30 Wednesday morning and died in the hospital; two men have been charged with murder.Police say Ramirez had earlier argued with the men -- R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Andrew Stewart, 29, Bayou Body Count No. 105

    Photo courtesy HCSOAllegedly killed a man over a backpack​A suspect has been arrested in the murder of a man over a backpack.Rosendo Diaz, 28, has been charged with murder in the April 11 murder of Andrew Stewart. The pair had been arguing over a backpack at a house in the 7300 block of Tuck. Diaz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Unidentified Man, Bayou Body Count No. 86

    ​Judging by where the body was found, this one looks like that homicide detective's nightmare: a body dump. Around eleven A.M. yesterday, workers picking up trash in the 12800 block of TC Jester -- an isolated, discontiguous and distant northwest Harris County stretch -- found the body of an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Murder on a Sunday Morning

    A white woman's dead and the black teenager accused of killing her is guilty until proven innocent

  • Blogs

    November 2, 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 pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 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 Po ... More >>

  • News

    July 17, 2008

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

    Magazine crews and their managers are no strangers to trouble

  • News

    January 3, 2008

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

    The DA doesn't make deals. And that's why Jesus Salazar is living the free life in Venezuela while a teenage girl lies dead, stabbed 26 times.

  • Culture

    January 25, 2007

    Murder by Numbers

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

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    A Very Good Year

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

  • Music

    November 28, 2002

    Downfall 2012, with Pimpadelic

    Friday, November 29

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Murder, She Testified

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

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Curses! Foiled Again

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

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Payback Time

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

  • News

    January 27, 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.

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    Killing Time

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

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    A Killer By Any Other Name

    Walt Waldhauser who became Michael Lee Davis may be headed back to prison

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Making a Killing

    In the '70s, Walter Waldhauser arranged four contract murders. Nearly 20 years later, he has a new name and a new line of work -- but he still generates a profit from death.

  • News

    July 24, 1997

    Death of an Informant

    Donald Chaline died as he had lived: in a tangle of crime, alcohol and mystery.

  • News

    October 17, 1996

    The Victim's Victims

    Four years after his daughter's murder, Bob Carreiro crusades to bring criminals to justice and peace to lives wrecked by crime. But to the family who shared his tragedy, he shows no mercy.

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    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

  • News

    January 12, 1995

    Killer Behind the Badge

    Susan White complained to friends and authorities about Deputy Joseph Kent McGowen, but nobody listened. Then he killed her.

  • News

    October 27, 1994

    A Bad Place to Be Tried

    Susan White complained to friends and authorities about Deputy Joseph Kent McGowen, but nobody listened. Then he killed her.

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