It was a grisly scene Lancaster police found on July 22, 1997: Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired psychology professor, stabbed to death on the floor of her dining room stabbed, her left ring finger severed from her hand. The evidence quickly led police to Kimberly McCarthy, Booth’s next-door neighbor. McCarthy,…
Franklin Davis, the Irving man accused of murdering 16-year-old Shania Gray Thursday on the banks of the Trinity River, gave a series of jailhouse interviews to local media outlets to share his part of the story. Demons, he said. It was the demons. “I didn’t plan on hurting her,” he…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown sent word yesterday evening that Christopher Pasley, a five-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department died yesterday “as a result of an apparent accidental discharge while cleaning his weapon at home.” “The Department’s Employee Relations Team has been activated to coordinate assistance to the family…
It’s been nearly a month since the housekeeping staff of an upscale Chicago hotel discovered the body of Brianna Gardner, a 22-year-old Dallas woman who had been fatally shot in the head. The case seemed to be headed for a quick resolution when police arrested a 28-year-old man whose cell…
On an otherwise ordinary April afternoon, 30-year-old nurse Verna McClain walked up to Kala Golden in the parking lot of a Spring, Texas, pediatric clinic and shot and killed Golden as she snatched a 3-day-old child from her arms, according to police. The infant was recovered unharmed about six hours…
Christopher Shell had a pretty terrible day yesterday. First, his Dallas-bound plane was turned around in midair after someone phoned in a bomb threat. When the plane landed in Philadelphia, he was taken into federal custody because the caller had said he was the one carrying liquid explosives. When it…
Rudolph Dinwiddie had a rough night on Monday. As he withdrew cash from a Bank of America ATM in the 3900 block of Cedar Springs Road, a car pulled up behind him, and three people stepped out. One was pointing a submachine gun. “If you don’t cooperate, we are going…
Update at 2:53: Menager told WFAA’s Brad Watson she has demons in her. See his tweet — complete with creepy picture — after the jump. Yesterday afternoon, police pulled over a man on Singleton Boulevard who told them that he had just gotten a call: his 1-year-old child was dead…
Earlier this week, we all shuddered in unison upon learning that some Kotex Natural Balance tampons, possibly tainted with bacteria and “metallic particles,” were stolen and fraudulently sold under shadowy circumstances. Kimberly-Clark, Kotex’s Irving-based parent company, says they’ve received no reports of health issues stemming from the tainted tampons. They…
We put photos of his tattoos up on this blog — a rat in a top hat, smoking a cigarette; a grinning shark; a winged heart bearing the name “Lena.” They were the only identifying features police found on a body that had been burned, dismembered, and abandoned near railroad…
In January, under pressure from the city of Arlington and the state, Ryan Walker Grant agreed to close down Flashdancer Cabaret, one of the city’s last remaining strip clubs. Grant agreed, but he wasn’t happy about it. Almost immediately, he set about doing what any gent as classy as himself…
Ramiro Arriaga was getting gas at a Harry Hines 7-11 just after midnight on August 31 when a man walked up behind him, put a gun to his head, and pistol-whipped him. As the man held Arriaga to the ground, a second suspect, described only as a black woman, rifled…
Cigarettes are addictive and, while they don’t typically make people do crazy things the way, say, bath salts do, people often want them very badly. At least one of those people found their way to Smokers Choice, a discount smoke shop in Northeast Dallas this morning some time between 3…
Two years ago today, just after 2 a.m., three men smashed through the glass doors of Henryk Kostman Fine Jewelry in a nine-story building on Turtle Creek Boulevard. A security guard was patrolling the grounds at the time, but was unable to stop the thieves from making off with nearly…
In the days after Deanna Cook was murdered while on the phone with 911, only to be found two days later by family members, DPD admitted that, yeah, things could have been handled a bit better. For starters, the dispatcher could have better communicated the severity of the situation with…
In 1997, Blas Hernandez was convicted of drunk driving in Ellis County. It was his third DWI, making it a felony and, since he had two previous convictions for assaulting a public servant, they threw the book at him: Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison. Fast-forward to 2012. Hernandez,…
Three people walk into a strip club and start hitting a dancer “with closed fists.” The cops show up. Nobody gets put in handcuffs. Not exactly a joke. More of a riddle, we’d say. Marqualia Bernard is a dancer at Exposure Sports Cabaret, a fairly new club conveniently located near…
On the sprawling “social news” website Reddit, there are pages and pages of user-created discussions and links, ranging from funny to poignant to vile. One of the site’s most fascinating sub-sections is r/IAmA , also known as “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA. AMAs are question and answer sessions with unique…
Early this morning at about 3 a.m., passersby in a Main Street parking garage became concerned when they spotted a young man walking about, allegedly waving an AK-47 in the air. They called police who, as first reported by the Morning News, confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a man…
On April 2, 2010, as 36-year-old Pedro David Garcia sat in the back seat of a car at an apartment complex in Northwest Dallas, he was shot several times, dying at the scene. The shooter fled in a white Dodge pickup. Homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Augustin Gonzalez,…
In 2001, the Texas Legislature passed a law that made prostitution a state jail felony after a third misdemeanor conviction. The measure was intended to be tough on crime and help clear hookers from Dallas truck stops. The law has done little to curb the sex trade, but it has…
On Saturday morning, a Dallas Police Department helicopter was on routine patrol over South southern Dallas when officers spotted what appeared to be marijuana growing inside a deeply wooded area off the 1500 block of Wood Vista Court, just north of the intersection of C.F. Hawn Freeway and Lake June…
