A Texas high school track coach is facing arson charges after reportedly setting his former house on fire. The Star-Telegram reports that Michael Graham Long, 58, was arrested outside of a track meet on Thursday at Keller Fossil Ridge High School in Weatherford. According to city spokesperson, Blake Rexroat, the Weatherford fire marshal’s office began an investigation into a …
An April 5 affidavit indicated that a woman in Austin, Texas, left her two children in a car last year while she shoplifted. The children survived thanks to a Good Samaritan who spotted them and called 911, but the temperature inside the car had reached 100°F. KVUE reports that Raquel Perez, 26, is accused of leaving her children, …
An East Texas man was sentenced to 11 life sentences last Thursday and if it were up the judge, he would have gotten even more time. Dallas Morning News reports that a Cherokee County jury found Kevin Ray Morris Sr., 56, guilty of 34 counts of child abuse. Morris sexually assaulted and threatened multiple children between …
Police say an Oklahoma man and woman drove to Meridian, Texas, to have sex with what they thought was a minor. In early March, law enforcement set up an account on an online app with the intentions of catching predators preying on children. The suspects fell directly into the trap. Dallas Morning News reports that Claudia …
A 72-year-old man is behind bars after Hood County, Texas, police say he was caught trying to load his wife’s corpse into a car parked in in the driveway of a residential home in Grandbury. Dallas Morning News reports that police officers were called to the Abe’s Landing neighborhood at around 11 a.m. on Thursday morning, after …
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A Garland, Texas, man who claimed “curiosity” led him to possessing child pornography was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Wednesday. US District Judge Ed Kinkeade also sentenced Jeffrey David Mitchell, 54, to 10 years supervised release. According to a statement released by the US Attorney’s Office, the 54-year-old pleaded guilty to one …
Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest
David Temple spent a decade in prison after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife, but the former high school coach is now free as the district attorney in Houston, Texas, decides if he’ll be tried again for Belinda Lucas Temple’s death. The high school teacher was eight months pregnant when she was killed …
Updated March 17, 5 p.m. A woman charged with murder-for-hire is out on bail awaiting trial for plotting to kill her ex-husband along with her boyfriend’s ex. Valerie McDaniel, 48, a veterinarian, and Leon Jacob, 39, who lived together in a River Oaks high-rise, were arrested on March 10 and charged with solicitation of capital …
A Rio Grande Valley, Texas, veteran who was beaten severely by a Honduras national died on February 24. Authorities are expected to upgrade the charges to capital murder. KRGV reports that on January 30 at 12:29 a.m., Andres Roberto Ortiz beat Jose Luis Oviedo so severely that he ended up in the hospital fighting for his …
A man studying to become a pastor at a Waco, Texas, seminary is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Sunday night. Benjamin William Nelson, 27, was arrested Monday afternoon at his home after a woman allegedly found him in a car with his daughter at a Whitney shopping center near the family’s home. According to …
