Forrest Welborn spent three decades as a suspect in Austin’s infamous yogurt shop murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?
Only in Texas could crime stories contain such characters as a murderous cheer mom, a fraudulent fruitcake accountant, and a polo shirt–wearing bandit. Throughout the years, these criminals and more have found their bizarre, macabre, and even humorous true tales told within our pages.
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
At 11:48 a.m. on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman began firing his rifle from the top of the University of Texas Tower at anyone and everyone in his sights. At 1:24 p.m., he was gunned down himself. The lives of the people who witnessed the sniper’s spree firsthand would never
A frightened silence keeps a neighborhood threat alive.
Someone was gunning down members of the state’s toughest motorcycle gang one at a time. Doe hoped her man wouldn’t be next.
Attendees of a seventies-era Red River Rivalry game, played annually between Texas and Oklahoma in Dallas’s Cotton Bowl. From the October 1977 story “The Rites of Autumn.”