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For years, the unsolved killings of four teenage girls in an Austin yogurt shop in 1991 haunted investigators in the Texas capital. Two men were charged and convicted, only to have DNA evidence ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office estimates that the state has nearly 20,000 unsolved homicides. But there's a break in one ...

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 Austin, Texas.

ORANGE, Texas — Twenty-three years ago today, 4-year-old Dannarriah Finley vanished from her bedroom in Orange. Her body was found four days later on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur, marking the ...

Forensic genetic genealogy is a rapidly evolving law enforcement tool for law enforcement to use DNA analysis and genealogical research to identify perpetrators of some of Central Texas' thousands of ...

Texas is a state known for its Wild West history - for the outlaws, the criminals and the bandits. People like Sam Bass, the ...

t's Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1973, and Houstonians are settling into their living rooms for the regular ritual of dinner and ...

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 ...

Texas lawmakers this year approved a pilot program to place Rapid DNA machines in two counties' jail booking stations.