A Texas judge declined to hold a man in custody after his conviction last week on aggravated assault charges, and now the felon is on the run after he didn’t show up for the punishment phase of his trial. A Travis County jury took just three hours on March 28 to find 56-year-old Hai Vo …
A Texas man is behind bars after he allegedly kidnapped his wife, who escaped him and drove off in his car — with him on the hood. Brownsville police said they were called at 7:13 a.m. on Saturday about a kidnapping in progress in which Martin Severiano Vela, 37, had come into a home, where …
A Texas court last week gave a 17-year-old charged with killing an India-born Georgia family of six in a drunk driving crash a $50,000 bond and let him out with home monitoring. Luke Resecker was charged with six counts of intoxication manslaughter, two counts of intoxication assault, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of …
A Texas mother was arrested Wednesday following an investigation in the death of her 3-month-old baby earlier this month. But Brittney Alisha Bailey, 31, was charged only with injury to a child, related to injuries found on the dead baby’s twin sister. Austin police were called to an apartment on March 10 for a medical …
An 8-year-old girl was found dead in a Houston hotel pool Saturday night after being reported missing. According to KPRC, the girl was reported missing shortly before 10 p.m. at the DoubleTree in northwest Houston. The body was recovered after the pool was drained. A witness told the station the girl was trapped in a …
A 30-year-old Texas woman is behind bars after she turned herself in to Grand Prairie Police and said she’d shot a woman in Dallas. Police informed their Dallas counterparts, who went to the home of 80-year-old Betty Hearn and found her dead from a gunshot wound, KXAS reported. Grand Prairie police arrested Kelsie Miles on …
A Texas man has been arrested after he drove more than a hour from his home in Sugar Land to The Woodlands to meet a person he believed was a 14-year-old for sex. It was, unfortunately for Max Talmadge Lambert, a sting operation, KPRC reported. Lambert, 62, was arrested by the Montgomery County Human Trafficking …
A Texas man was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole in the death of his girlfriend, who was pregnant with their twin boys at the time. Darionne Burley was found shot to death on June 29, 2020, in the passenger seat of Maurice Kelso Smith’s vehicle in Mansfield, where he left the …
A 12-year-old Texas girl missing for more than a week after she was last seen getting into a pickup truck near her home has been found. E’Minie Hughes was found in Columbus, about 70 miles from her home in the Houston suburb of Missouri City, KRIV reported. Columbus Police said they found the girl with …
An 12-year-old Texas girl has been missing for a week, and police say she could be a sex-trafficking victim. An Amber Alert has been issued for E’Minie Hughes, who was last seen on February 22, when E’Minie asked her mother to wake her early for school the next day. But when Shannon Williams went to …
A Houston father was shot to death in front of his family early Sunday morning in a home invasion, part of which was caught on surveillance video from across the street. The video showed a man opening and closing the apparently unlocked door of a truck in the family’s driveway at about 1:30 a.m., KTRK …
A pair of girl’s pants led searchers to the body of missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham in the Trinity River on Tuesday after she’d been missing for nearly a week. Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, told CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace that he spotted the pants along the bank of the river on Saturday. “Not the …
