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Eleven-year-old Debra Horn disappeared from her Allenstown home in January 1969. Eight months later, her decaying body was ...

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

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The Texas Department of Public Safety is seeking information on the 2001 murder of 46-year-old James Charles “Jimmy” ...

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

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Robert Eugene Brashers has been identified as the sole suspect in the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, and two men who were ...

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