Texas officials announced Friday that they’ve declined to reverse the 2016 firing of an ex-police officer who allegedly gave a homeless man a feces sandwich. According to the San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio officials said an independent arbitrator upheld Matthew Luckhurst’s second termination, citing his especially appalling conduct. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus had …
Tipster leads investigators to skeletal remains of soldier missing since August
The Humane Society of North Texas has taken custody of 124 animals seized from Denton home, where they were found in feces-filled cages, infested with fleas, underweight, and ill. The home, the Human Society said, had “the worst cockroach infestation we have ever seen on site.” The society said it assisted Denton authorities taking the …
Human remains found on the side of a Texas road in 1990 were recently identified as a woman who hadn’t been seen or heard from for three decades. KTRK reported that Manvel police confirmed the bones found off County Road 101 in September 1990 belong to Julie Gwenn Davis. Despite their announcement, it remains a …
A Texas man was criminally charged Monday with allegedly sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl on multiple instances. According to WKRC, Bexar County police arrested Wilson Dyer, Jr., 64, in connection with a May 15 incident after the victim complained to her mother that she was bleeding from her buttocks. An arrest report stated that Dyer used …
A Texas man is believed to have fatally shot his two daughters Tuesday night before taking his own life. Mesquite police reportedly discovered the bodies of Raymond Haydel, 63, and his two daughters, Alexa and Natasha Haydel, 16 and 17, after receiving a call about a shooting. The Kauffman Herald that the suspected murder-suicide occurred …
A Texas mother who in 2018 was convicted of trying to kill her 13-year-old son by subjecting him to unnecessary surgeries and starving him until he weighed 51 pounds proclaimed her innocence in a recently-aired A&E show. Sentenced to five years in prison, Dana Tutt, 44, was accused of lying about her son, Colby, having …
David Brooks, one of two teenage accomplices of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll, has died in prison of COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this week. The Houston Chronicle said Brooks, 65, was hospitalized on May 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 before he died on May 28. …
Authorities in Texas are asking the public for information about the murder of a woman whose body was found in a field late last month. On May 31, Dallas police responded to the 19000 block of Gibbons Drive after someone discovered Meghan King’s body in a nearby field. Police said King, 24, had been shot …
The Texas Department of Public Safety issued AMBER Alert Monday for a 7-month-old girl who may be endangered after her mother allegedly stole her from her custodial grandparents. Jocelyn Bridges, 35, reportedly abducted daughter, Serenity Berry, Sunday from her grandparents’ residence at Park Manor retirement homes in Irving. KTVT reported that Bridges possibly pulled a …
The toddler’s mother allegedly admitted her son died days earlier but she hid his body in her home for several days
A body has been found amid a search for a Texas toddler who vanished from a park on Monday afternoon. According to KWKT, Waco police discovered the unidentified body in a dumpster near the intersection of 27th and Alice. Police said the body hasn’t been positively identified and will be transported to the medical examiner …
