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Jan 27, 1981 · HOUSTON -- A woman on trial in the slaying of her heart surgeon husband testified she once responded 'you don't go around killing people' to his remark that he wanted to kill Dr. Denton Cooley...
Dec 15, 2023 · AJ was charged with two counts of capital murder and tried twice—with both trials ending in mistrials. However, this year, prosecutors discovered a key piece of evidence that was overlooked and ...
- Colette Wilson
- Laura Miller
- Shelley Sikes
- Suzanne Rene Richerson
- Krystal Baker
- Laura Smither
One of the first victims found in the Texas Killing Fields was Colette Wilson. She was 13 years old on June 17, 1971, when she was abducted from an intersection in Alvin while waiting for her mother, Claire Wilson, to pick her up. Claire Wilson immediately suspected foul play when she arrived and her daughter was not at the intersection or at a fri...
On September 10, 1984, Laura Miller, 16, disappeared a short distance from her home. In February 1986, her body was found near Calder Road, on the same patch of land where the body of a missing 23-year-old, Heidi Villarreal-Fye, had been discovered in April 1984. Laura Miller's killerhas never been brought to justice. As seen in The Texas Killing F...
Shelley Sikes, 19, was last seen in May 1986 as she drove home from her job at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in Galveston. Her body has never been found and she is presumed dead. Gerald Zwarst and John King were convicted of her aggravated kidnapping in 1988. They were later sentenced to life in prison, where they both died. King die...
Suzanne Rene Richerson, 22, was last seen alive on October 7, 1988. Sixteen years later, in July 2004, her parents Clyde and Kathy Richerson hoped they might finally get some answers when bone fragments were retrieved from under a home in Galveston. The bones came from the former home of an unnamed suspect in her disappearance. An anonymous caller ...
The body of 13-year-old Krystal Baker was discovered under an interstate bridge in Chambers County in March 1996. Her killer was caught more than a decade later, thanks to advances in DNA testing. In 2009 a man was arrested on a minor drug charge in Louisiana and was required to submit a DNA specimen. This matched DNA found on Krystal's clothes. In...
In the Crime Scenedocumentary, Gay Smither recalls the moment her 12-year-old daughter Laura went missing on April 3, 1997. Laura's body was found on April 20, 1997. In June this year, serial killer William Reecewas convicted of her murder. Reece was already in prison when he confessed to killing Laura and two young women who also went missing in 1...
Apr 15, 2024 · In closing arguments, prosecutors framed Capital Murder suspect Brian Coulter as a calculating, gaslighting and jealous boyfriend who killed his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son in a selfish and...
Oct 18, 2016 · Here are four Houston murders that made news and, in three cases, changed the justice system. It was public pressure surrounding the 1977 murder Joe Campos Torres by Houston Police officers...
Shelley Kathleen Sikes, 19, was last seen leaving her job as a waitress at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in Galveston, Texas just prior to 12:00 a.m. on May 24, 1986. Her car was found the next day, stuck in mud, blood-stained, and abandoned on the side of an Interstate 45 access road, south of the Galveston causeway. [ 34 ]
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Nov 17, 2023 · AUSTIN, Texas (Court TV) — Kaitlin Armstrong has been found guilty of murdering elite cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson. The penalty phase began immediately, and the same jury sentenced her to 90 years in prison. Armstrong, 35, was apparently in the throes of a jealous rage on May 11, 2022 when she fired bullets into Wilson’s head and heart.
