A team of law enforcement officers assigned to a fugitive task force managed to apprehend a suspect wanted for a capital murder case found hiding near the U.S.-Mexico Border in Eagle Pass, Texas. John Chancey III was located more than 250 miles away from where the murder occurred in Fayette County, Texas.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson, III, who is currently housed on death row in the state’s Polunsky Unit. The court sent the case back to the East Texas Piney Woods trial court in Palestine to consider Roberson’s “new” or “junk” science claim. Roberson’s execution was set for October 16, 2025.
Three criminal illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration are now charged with capital murder in connection to a Garland, Texas, killing. The three Venezuelan nationals allegedly shot and killed a security guard at a Motel 6 in Garland. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed an immigration detainer on the three accused killers.
A DOJ employee in Texas is accused of spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with abortion pills and killing his unborn child.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a total reward of $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive capital murder suspect. The suspect was released by a judge in Kaufman County on bond. Abbott says the case highlights the need for passage of the bond reform bill currently before the Texas Legislature.
Police in San Antonio say a Venezuelan migrant is charged in the July capital murder of a teenager. The man is suspected of being a gun trafficker and Tren de Aragua gang member and was released by the Biden administration after illegally entering the U.S.
Houston Police Department officials say they arrested the alleged killer of a woman and her two-year-old daughter. Police found the suspected killer sleeping on the couch, still wearing blood-stained clothes.
Sixty-six-year-old Ahmad Alkhalaf was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, at a gas station while meeting a 19-year-old woman to sell an iPhone via Facebook marketplace.
The toddler was alive when she was discovered but later died at the hospital, Galveston Police Chief Doug Balli said.
By a unanimous vote, the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee voted to subpoena a death row inmate in an apparent effort to delay the man’s execution. The committee voted to subpoena Robert Roberson, who is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in connection to a shaken baby death.
A young woman in Dothan, Alabama, is accused of leaving her newborn in a dumpster, where he was later found dead.
Francisco Torres Oropeza pleaded not guilty in an East Texas court on Capital Murder charges related to the alleged murder of five Honduran migrants. The Hondurans, including a young child, lived next door to Oropeza at the time of the reported shooting deaths.
The New York Times is standing by a report that Alabama’s Kai Spears was the fourth Crimson Tide player present at the scene when Jamea Harris was shot and killed near the university campus on January 15th, despite vehement denials by Spears and the university.
Alabama forward Darius Miles was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend allegedly because she stopped talking to him.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas district court judge reduced the bond for a man charged with Capital Murder to $9,000. The suspect is out of jail after paying a $900 fee to the bondsman, according to Houston Crime Stoppers.
Alabama Corrections Official Vicky White stayed at a hotel the night before authorities say she helped inmate Casey White escape from prison.
Authorities say the Alabama corrections official and the accused murderer she allegedly helped escape prison share a “special relationship.”
Authorities have issued a warrant for missing Alabama Corrections Official Vicki White for allegedly helping a capital murder suspect escape.
A corrections director with an Alabama sheriff’s office and an inmate – charged with capital murder – went missing Friday morning.
A Texas judge has found Darriynn Brown, accused of kidnapping and murdering four-year-old Cash Gernon, incompetent to stand trial.
The criminal alien accused in the murder of a Harris County Precinct 5 Constable’s deputy has been a fugitive for more than 25 years, Texas court records indicate. He is also reportedly wanted in El Salvador on a murder allegedly committed while on the run.
Two Texas brothers and their friend are facing charges linked to the death of their stepfather, who allegedly sexually abused their nine-year-old sister.
A report by Houston’s FOX26 claims over 150 people have been killed by suspects whom Democrat judges have released on bond in Harris County, Texas.
A jury found a Texas nurse guilty of capital murder of four patients after prosecutors asserted the nurse injected the patients with air while recovering from heart surgeries.
A Houston man severely injured during a carjacking gone array in May witnessed a similar incident on September 29, where a woman was dragged to death by a carjacker after her seatbelt had trapped her in the Uvalde area of
Otis McKane physically assaulted a bailiff inside a courtroom moments after a jury found him guilty of capital murder.
A Texas woman who called from the lobby of a suburban Dallas police station admitted to killing her two daughters, ages 1 and 6, police said Tuesday.
Maurice ‘Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock after his father allegedly violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.
An aspiring rapper has been charged in the shooting death of a little girl in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday after he targeted the wrong apartment.
Newly released body cam video shows home invasion suspect Jonathan Perales begging police to keep him alive after a homeowner shot him in the chest.
Police arrested an elderly Arkansas woman on Saturday and charged her with killing her husband after an argument over his pornography purchases, a report says.
A Texas couple blamed “demons” and “not worldly” forces for the recent death of their two-year-old son and for injuries authorities found on their eight-month-old daughter. However, the evidence told a different story and local law enforcement charged these young parents with capital murder.
Authorities arrested Rev. Al Sharpton’s half-brother and charged him with capital murder in Alabama for shooting and killing a 23-year-old woman over a car dispute, police said.
A teenage mother is in a Texas jail after she allegedly killed her newborn infant daughter. The mother allegedly stabbed her daughter in the neck and body before leaving her in the garage to die.
A Texas grand jury previously indicted a Mexican national for the double capital murder of a couple found in shallow graves last year. The man is now charged in the death of a third person found buried beneath a Fort Worth home.
A Texas jury wasted no time in sentencing a man that police called a sexual predator to a life sentence following his conviction for murdering a teenage girl. Dallas County prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty because of the killer’s “intellectual disability.”
An Arkansas man has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder after he told police he stabbed his wife to death for changing the television channel.
HOUSTON, Texas — The Harris County District Attorney’s Office filed capital murder charges against a woman after she allegedly stabbed her own daughter to death. The killing of the four-year-old came after the woman reportedly fought with a yet unnamed boyfriend.
Three Mississippi teenagers were arrested after a 6-year-old boy was killed in the back seat of a stolen car, police said.
Two teenagers were arrested Thursday and charged with murder after they allegedly lured a man with a sexting app, then beat him to death and set him on fire.
