A Texas fast-food employee is being hailed as a hero after saving a customer from the potentially dangerous effects of diabetes. According to Fox News, former police officer Rebecca Boening pulled into the drive-thru lane of a Burger King in Amarillo after realizing her blood sugar had dropped. By the time it was her turn …
An investigation is underway after a father and his two children were found dead in their Texas home early Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide. KDAF reported that the children’s uninjured mother called 911 from their North Richland Hills home. The mother allegedly told police that her husband and their 5-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son were …
Jurors convicted a former priest this week for killing a beauty queen nearly 60 years ago. According to People, 85-year-old John Feit was found guilty on Thursday and given a life sentence the following day. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Irene Garza was 25 in 1960 when she was murdered in McAllen, Texas. Feit was 27. …
A Texas woman was killed Thursday night after she stopped on the highway to help an intoxicated man who had spun out his truck. Develtrick Adair, 25, reportedly spun out his truck on the middle lane of the highway around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday night while allegedly driving under the influence. Several people, including 56-year-old …
Police hope a tip from the public will crack the case
A Houston man had his SUV stolen in front of his restaurant after he left it unattended and running outside the building. The restaurant owner, Daniel Yang, said he left his vehicle running for barely two minutes to go inside his Midtown business. When he came back out, the SUV was gone. He told ABC13 that …
Authorities apprehended a Texas woman who allegedly sent homemade bombs to former President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott when cat hairs found on a device matched a cat she owned. According to The Guardian, legal documents filed in a Houston court this week laid out police’s case against Julia Poff, 46, who’s accused of …
Authorities in Texas say a high-tech mugshot convinced a suspect to confess to a 2016 murder. According to KTAB, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office authorized DNA found at the scene of the crime to be used in creating a composite sketch. That image was then released to the public and is being credited with convincing …
The adoptive mother of Sherin Mathews, the Texas toddler found dead in a culvert last month, reportedly turned herself in Thursday on child endangerment charges. KXAS reported that Richardson police accused Sini Mathews, 35, and Wesley of taking their biological 4-year-old child to dinner and left Sherin, 3, home alone the evening before her disappearance. …
An Uber driver accused a passenger of hitting, belittling, and insulting him, and it cost the passenger her job. Jody Warner, 32, a former Dallas County district attorney, is accused of berating her Uber driver late Friday night as he took her home, Dallas News reports. The driver, Shaun Platt, 26, said he could tell Warner was …
A former Air Force colleague of the Texas church shooter says that the gunman told her he bought pets to use as target practice, and that the Dylann Roof church massacre was “cool.” Devin Kelley, the gunman responsible for Sunday’s deadly mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, reportedly told his Holloman Air Force …
A grand jury indicted a woman charged with manslaughter after police said she drunkenly plowed through a group of Texas students on spring break, killing a 19-year-old and then fled the scene, according to the Daily Mail. Daisy Joy Decker, 21, is charged in the death of Maria Selena Patino, 19, of Los Fresnos, Texas. …
