Tag: Texas
Mug Shot Monday! Henry Martinez Porter, 1975, Executed 1985
During the month of November 1975, three armed robberies in the Fort Worth area eventually produced a description of the suspect’s vehicle. On the morning of November 29, a car driven by Henry Martinez Porter was pulled over by Fort Worth Police Officer Henry Paul Mailoux. A confrontation between the two men led to a […]
Posted: October 3rd, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, cop killer, Execution, Murder, Texas
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Rediscovered News: Grandpa’s Hammer, 1955
A sad, stupid, senseless crime. Horrible. Child is Slain by her Grandfather: Singing Kept him Awake August 25, 1955, TEXAS CITY , United Press— A preliminary hearing was scheduled Thursday for Robert J. Wallace, 78, who is charged with beating his blonde, nine-year-old granddaughter to death with a ball-peen hammer because her singing kept him […]
Posted: August 16th, 2016 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1950s, Juvenile, Murder, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Michael Wayne Evans, 1977
During the summer of 1977, Elvira Guerrero, 36, and Mario Alvarado Garza, 28, were deeply in love with plans to soon get married. After attending services at the Second Mexican Baptist Church in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas–where Elvira played the piano, and Mario, a Mexican national, had just been baptized earlier that […]
Posted: August 1st, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, Execution, Murder, Texas
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New Book: The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer, by Skip Hollandsworth
HCD Review: This is the best historical true crime book of 2016. Some authors crank out books, some of them write books, and an elite few craft a great book over years of unimaginable diligence and Skip Hollandsworth has produced a new American classic. I read it this weekend and I can tell you that […]
Posted: April 5th, 2016 under New Books.
Tags: 1800s, Serial Killer, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Jay Kelly Pinkerton, 1979, Texas, Executed 1986
Jay Kelly Pinkerton Warning: This story contains graphic content, near the end. Jay Kelly Pinkerton was executed by the state of Texas on May 15, 1986, for the rape and murder of two women. On October 26, 1979, Pinkerton entered the Amarillo home of David and Sarah Lawrence between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30 […]
Posted: March 14th, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, bizarre, Execution, Psychopath, Sex Crimes, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Charles ‘Chucky’ Rumbaugh, 1975
Charles Rumbaugh’s minor notoriety as a killer and criminal only came after he committed the murder that put him on Texas death row. On April 4, 1975, Rumbaugh shot and killed an Amarillo jewelry store owner, fifty-eight-year-old Michael Fiorillo, during a robbery. When he was arrested the next day, he pulled a gun on the […]
Posted: February 8th, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, Execution, Murder, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Doyle Edward Skillern, 1974
During the month of October 1974, Patrick Randel, an undercover narcotics agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety, was working a drug buy/sting operation against two underworld figures from Austin. With $850 in “buy money,” Randel agreed to purchase Quaaludes from the two men. On October 23, the three met in a room […]
Posted: December 14th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, cop killer, Execution, Murder, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Thomas Barefoot, 1978
. On August 7, 1978, Harker Heights Police Officer Carl Levin located an arson suspect entering a vacant house in the small community located southeast of Killeen, Texas. When Officer Levin stopped the individual and asked for identification, the man pulled out a .25 caliber pistol and shot the thirty-one-year-old Levin in the head, killing […]
Posted: November 30th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, cop killer, Execution, Texas
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Mug Shot Monday! Ronald O’Bryan: ‘The Candy Man,’ & ‘The Man Who Ruined Halloween,’ 1974
On Halloween night, 1974, Ronald O’Bryan took his eight-year-old-son, Timothy, and his daughter, trick-or-treating with some other neighborhood friends near their home in the Deer Park suburb of Houston. Since there was a light rain falling, they only collected candy in a two-block area for half-an-hour before returning home. As he went to bed, Ronald […]
Posted: November 16th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1970s, Execution, Filicide, Murder, Poison, Texas
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Overkill, The York Family Massacre, 1947
This story is available as one of ten stories in my book: Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity. Volume I. You can view images related to this case here. —###—
Posted: November 21st, 2013 under Feature Stories.
Tags: Texas
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