That's Not All She Wrote

"...affect the kinds of scripts and dialogue women screenwriters wrote? Did the talkies' influx of Broadway theatre folk to..."

April 2, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who Killed Vicki Nisbett? And Is She Even Dead?

No verifiable crime scene, no murder weapon, no motive, and no body

"...ruling in the 3rd Court of Appeals that the murder conviction on Rex Nisbett be overturned, and that Nisbett..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Cave Murder: Court Grants Review

Pitonyak to argue that state withheld favorable evidence

"...concluded that Colton Pitonyak, convicted in 2007 of the murder of Jennifer Cave, should have the opportunity to argue..."

March 20, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Prosecutors in Mike Ramos Murder Trial Want Defense to Stop Crying Corruption

D.A.’s Office says the defense is tainting the jury to change venue

"...Prosecutors in the murder trial involving Austin Police Officer Christopher Taylor allege in..."

June 20, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

AFF Interview: Michael Lovan Draws All the Right Cards in Murder Bury Win

Board game dark comedy rolls the dice on laughs.

"...(sorta). We've had movies based on board games, but Murder Bury Win, the new dark comedy from Michael Lovan,..."

Oct. 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Casey Cep solves the mystery of the true crime book that Harper Lee never wrote

"...There's usually a bit of mystery about a murder. It doesn't have to be a true whodunit –..."

July 19, 2019 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Murder Most Female

Austin Author and Edgar Nominee Susan Wade

"..."I wrote my father a letter I guess in '88 and..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

12 Jurors Found Him Guilty of Murder. Gov. Abbott Thinks He Knows Better.

An Army sergeant thought he could get away with murdering a Black Lives Matter protester, and he might be right

"...The 12 jurors who served in the Daniel Perry murder trial took an oath to be fair and impartial...."

April 14, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Courts Overturn Three Capital Murder Cases

One defendant acquitted, two sent back for possible retrials

"...handful of men indicted for the 2001 robbery and murder of Delfino Sierra. Gongora was indicted for capital murder..."

Feb. 28, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Finley Murder Mystery Unravels

After more than a month of searching for the aspiring singer / songwriter, sheriff's investigators charge victim's aunt and uncle with her murder

"...of searching for missing 22-year-old Latoya Finley, Travis Co. Sheriff's investigators on April 19 charged Finley's aunt and uncle,..."

April 28, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Morton Prosecutor Wrote the Book on Crime

Judge Ken Anderson as a prosecutor leapt to judgment on Morton

"...in having the right people in these jobs," Anderson wrote in his 1997 book, Crime in Texas: Your Complete..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pitonyak Seeks New Trial in Jennifer Cave Murder Case

Defense says new evidence proves Hall murdered Cave

"...Pitonyak, serving a 55-year sentence for the gruesome 2005 murder of his friend Jennifer Cave, is not entitled to..."

Oct. 25, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

UT Murder Coverage Misses the Point

Article's portrayal of suspect's mom demeaning, judgmental

"...University of Texas student Haruka Weiser's murder on April 3 has yielded a wealth of media..."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

State Appeals 3rd Court Ruling in Nisbett Murder

Can Stacey Soule prove that Vicki Nisbett is actually dead?

"...ruling that Rex Nisbett be acquitted for the 1991 murder of his estranged wife, Vicki. Nisbett was convicted and..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

She's Her Own Grandma

Carole Keeton Strayhorn – what a long strange trip it's been

"...a little humor, but Strayhorn never even broke pace. She merely dialed up the volume. "Let the race begin!"..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

DNA Testing Puts Hank Skinner at Murder Scene

But it doesn't necessarily mean he's guilty, attorneys argue

"...grown sons, Elwin Caler and Randy Busby, who were murdered in the home they shared in Pampa on New..."

Nov. 23, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Morales Murder Update: Amateur boxer charged

Police charge 20-year-old with manslaughter, assault, and theft in connection with June 19 death

"...they heard Colvin ask a woman standing nearby if she was acquainted with Morales; when the woman said no,..."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TV Eye

Opposites attract in a new mystery series starring a crime writer and a cop

"...some Nathan Fillion. His name attached to a new police/murder mystery/procedural series? Sure, I'm there!..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Bandit Queen

"...Directed by: Shekhar Kapur. Starring: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Manoj Bajpai, Rajesh..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Science of Injustice

Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence

"...since Dec. 8, 1998. That day, during finals week, she had been seen around the college by a number..."

Aug. 19, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

True Crime?

Why is the Austin American-Statesman in touch with the lawyers for Holtzbrinck Publishers Holdings and its subsidiary Holt, publisher of the critically acclaimed A Death in Texas?

"...killed near Jasper, where James Byrd Jr. was brutally murdered on June 6, 1998. "Deep East Texas: The slaying..."

June 28, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Opening the Case on the American Sherlock

Kate Winkler Dawson reports on an early master of forensics

"...Murder is Kate Winkler Dawson's business. The UT-Austin lecturer, journalist,..."

Feb. 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mike Berry

Kleinert's Next Defense

Kleinert attorneys ask to move case to federal court

"..."reasonably" while performing their federal duties. As Kleinert's attorneys wrote in their motion, quoting an earlier case, this is..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Qmmunity: You Are What You Watch

What’s good and gay on TV these days?

"...due to depression-induced binging – aka I have almost finished the FULL series of Murder, She Wrote with no..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Column by James Scott

TV Eye

There's been some mild hoopla over the current crop of female detectives on TV crime dramas

"...shows, it starts with a case, usually a grisly murder that's become par for the course on these series...."

June 3, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...Hardy (who co-wrote with All the Boys Love Mandy Lane producer Felipe..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Keeping the Sparks Alive

What fresh hell is this?

"...nap – or maybe watch baseball, or reruns of Murder, She Wrote, which, as far as I can tell,..."

May 15, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

My Obsession: Cozi TV

Channel showcases the best and worst of syndicated TV

"...hands down. Then there are those opening strings of Murder, She Wrote, once again reminding me that Jessica Fletcher..."

March 24, 2017 Screens Column by Josh Kupecki

Bedside Manner: Hide the Schlock!

Depressing real stuff and trashy TV

"...recently moved from my bedside to the adjacent wall shelf – only to be replaced by John Grisham's The..."

Feb. 20, 2011 Books Post by Jordan Smith

And Then a Step to the Right

TV Eye

"...excuse to trot out all those Seventies and Eighties slasher films, to show the Hallowe'en episodes of your favorite..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

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