If there was any doubt that Eddie Routh, the former Marine who shot and killed Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield in 2013, was profoundly disturbed, Thursday’s testimony at Routh’s murder trial erased it. Now, the jury is going to decide whether Routh knew that shooting Kyle and Littlefield…
The last time we wrote about Excalibur towing, the person whose car had been towed wondered if someone broke into her car to rip off her parking sticker, possibly causing her car to be towed — assuming the sticker went missing before her car was hauled away instead of after…
Texas Ranger Danny Briley and a videotape gave a thorough account Wednesday of the confession given to Briley by Eddie Routh, the man on trial for the fatal 2013 shootings of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. “I know you had a tough day, but I’d like to talk a little…
The outcome, what happened after Texas gun fetishists Kory Watkins and Amy Hedtke testified before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs is what’s scary. It’s not that it now seems inevitable that students over the age of 21 will be able to bring guns onto college campuses, nor that…
On January 14, vice cops fanned out across East Dallas and descended on a half dozen aging storefronts in crappy, low-rent strip centers: one off Columbia Avenue a mile east of Deep Ellum, another where Garland Road transitions from isn’t-it-nice-to-be-near-White-Rock-Lake! to all-beauty-has-been-extinguished-from-the-world, the rest along Ferguson Road. Later, they visited…
Video from a body cam worn by a DPD cop — released by the department Thursday — shows a dramatic water rescue from creek near 5800 Military Parkway. The man being rescued lost control of his car before he and the car fell more than 50 feet into the creek…
After Artrai Alexander stole a Dodge Challenger from a convenience store in the 3000 block of Grand Avenue Wednesday afternoon, police say, he took cops on a high speed chase. The chase ended when he crashed, a fairly typically outcome. What happened after the crash wasn’t. Jessica Liesmann, the woman…
“I’m in the lobby, and I need some help,” Kristiana Coignard said into the station telephone at the Longview Police Department. “OK what kind of help do you need?” an officer asked. The officer gets no response, and the recording ends…
Last week, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was cited and released for misdemeanor marijuana possession after police responded to his Wichita, Kansas, hotel room following a 911 call about domestic violence. The weed charge was subsequently dropped, but just released 911 tapes obtained by The Dallas Morning News show…
Larry Tuttle, a six-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, died Saturday after police say a woman in his apartment shot Tuttle before shooting herself. The woman was an acquaintance of Tuttle’s, police say, but cops have not yet identified her. A 6-year-old girl, thought to be the shooter’s daughter,…
When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his meditation on the American prison system in the 1830s, the country’s experiment in solitary confinement was a half century old, begun in 1786 by pacifistic Pennsylvania Quakers as an alternative to execution. As the Frenchman noted, it hadn’t worked: Nowhere was this system of…
Kory Watkins, leader of the ammosexual group Open Carry Tarrant County, posted a video with a distinct Colonel Kurtz vibe to his Facebook page this morning. Pretty quickly, he took it down. Here’s what he said: This morning I removed a video from my Facebook because I thought there were…
In the lobby of the Longview Police Department station nearly two weeks ago, police fired their guns five times at a mentally ill teenager named Kristiana Coignard, killing her. In her final moments, Coignard was cornered by three armed officers. Why couldn’t they subdue her without killing her? The Longview…
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What a beautiful week we had. Temps in the high 70s, sunny skies, patio lunches — it was damn pretty. You got your bike tuned up, your picnic basket packed up, and you’re geared up for a kickass outdoor weekend. I am now here to crush your outdoor weekend dreams,…
Eutopia — which Unfair Park can’t help but pronounce as Eww-topia — is, or was, a swingers club located in a half-million dollar home near AT&T Stadium. The city of Arlington didn’t have a problem with that in and of itself, but has now sent James and Mary Self, who…
The two cases of Bud Light in the bed of John Werthing Jr.’s, pickup were still cold when Hutchins police pulled him over around 8 a.m. on September 30, 2013. A clerk at a Shell gas station had called in a shoplifting complaint a few moments before; a man matching…
One week after Longview Police Department officers shot and killed a mentally ill teenager in the lobby of their own police station, the department has released a surveillance video that captures the teenager’s death. It does little to clear things up. The police say Kristiana Coignard charged at officer Glenn…
In a region with poor public transit but plenty of available parking at the bar, it’s no longer surprising to learn that someone in law enforcement was arrested for driving drunk. That doesn’t make it OK that a longtime Dallas Police Department officer allegedly drove while under the influence in…
Rachel Hardy Johnson is nothing if not audacious. The 35-year-old Mansfield woman currently facing corpse abuse and theft charges in Tarrant County, stemming from decomposed and desiccated bodies found in her funeral home, has now pleaded guilty to stealing food stamps. See also: Multiple Bodies Found Inside Abandoned Funeral Home…
Two years ago the Texas Legislature slipped into the state budget an item mandating a thorough review of certain civil forfeiture proceedings. Civil forfeiture — the process state and federal prosecutors use to seize property from suspected criminals, whether they’ve been convicted or not — is a source of perpetual…
In October 2013, Clint Peterson was shot to death by a Duncanville Police Department officer. Now his family has filed a lawsuit in federal court against three unnamed officers who responded to the call that ultimately lead to his death. Other defendants named in the suit are Duncanville Police Chief…
