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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is appealing for information regarding the 1992 murder of 81-year-old Raymond ...

Clyde Edwin Hedrick, a suspect in the 'Texas Killing Fields' murders, is under parole review by the Texas Parole Board. Tim ...

On a late September morning in 1982, 36-year-old Manuel Acevedo-Alvarez was taken from his home on Drury Lane by three men.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A serial killer and rapist connected to violent crimes in Memphis and Dyersburg has been identified as a suspect in the 1991 unsolved murders of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in ...

It’s a mystery that’s evaded investigators for more than 37 years. Who shot and killed Elizabeth "Betty" Thomas? Why would someone target the beloved 45-year-old wife, mother and soon-to-be ...

Dr. Jeffery Tomberlin is an expert in entomology and uses a bug’s life cycle uses to unearth a key piece of investigations: estimating how long someone has been dead.

AUSTIN The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking information on the 2001 murder of 46-year-old James Charles “Jimmy” Schuessler. The reward for information leading to the arrest of those ...

An infamous cold case from Texas might have connections to Southwest Florida. Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer recently linked to the 1991 Austin "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt" shop murders, was ...

More than three decades after one of the most horrifying crimes in Texas history, authorities have finally cracked the case of the Yogurt Shop Murders. In 1991, four teenage girls were killed inside a ...