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On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [ 20 ] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.
David Owen Brooks (February 12, 1955 – May 28, 2020) [1] was an American convicted murderer and accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll, who, along with Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders ...
The reason for this decision was supposedly remorse for his crimes and encouragement from his family. [5] At the time, he was second-longest serving inmate in Harris County, being detained for only a slightly shorter time than another murderer, Lucky Ward. [6] As of January 2023, Hobbs is detained at the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon.
The Houston Police Department (HPD) has arrested and charged Rodney Lee Jackson, 31, with capital murder in the shooting deaths of Antwon Jerome Alexander, 23, and Jalen Mann, 22.
The J. Dale Wainwright Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. [1] [2] Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the J. Dale Wainwright Unit after a former chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. [3]
Gonzalo Artemio Lopez (February 10, 1976 – June 2, 2022) [1] was an American fugitive, mass murderer, and prison escapee who killed a total of six people in separate murders in 2005 and 2022. In 2005, Lopez kidnapped and murdered a man in Weslaco, Texas. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. [2]
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
In 2017, more than $15 million from inmate phone calls went to the crime victims fund, The Dallas Morning News reported. Jails in Texas have also begun deploying Securus tablets.