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Tag Archives: true crime

by Andrea Grimes

‘Midnight Assassin,’ A Century-Old Mystery with Modern Lessons on Race, Police, Power

The black community affected by Texas’ first serial killer is filtered through a white lens in 'The Midnight Assassin.'

Tue, Jun 7, 2016 |

One of Texas' best crime writers tackles a 100-year-old murder mystery in a book with urgent implications for modern policing, race and power....Read More

by Michael Schaub

The Observer Review: James Presley’s The Phantom Killer

Mon, Jun 1, 2015 |

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a 1946 series of slayings, shootings and beatings in and near the Texas-Arkansas border city, were committed by a "Phantom Kill...Read More

Attorney/Author David Berg on Houston, Brotherhood and Woody Harrelson

by Nick Swartsell

Wed, Jun 19, 2013

David Berg, a veteran Texas attorney, mines the intersections of family, justice and mortality in his new book Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of Murder in my Famil...Read More

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