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David Leonard Wood (born June 20, 1957), known as The Desert Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist who killed at least six girls and women in El Paso, Texas between May and August 1987, burying their bodies in the desert.
Jennifer Ann Crecente (September 9, 1987 – February 15, 2006) was an 18-year-old high school student who was shot and killed in southwest Austin, Texas, by Justin Crabbe, her ex-boyfriend, on February 15, 2006. Crecente's murder was the first in Austin in 2006. [1]
On November 16, 2010, eighteen-year-old Joshua Wilkerson was murdered by his classmate Hermilo Moralez, who was an illegal immigrant to the United States from Belize. [1] [2] Both boys were students at an alternative school for at-risk students in Pearland, Texas (a suburb of Houston). [2]
The felony murder rule in Texas, codified in Texas Penal Code § 19.02(b)(3), [2] states that a person commits murder if he or she "commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, the person commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human ...
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On March 14, 1989, University of Texas at Austin student Mark James Kilroy was kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, while vacationing during spring break. He was taken by his abductors to a ranch where he was tortured and sodomized for hours before being murdered in a human sacrifice ritual. Kilroy was killed with a machete blow and then ...
The victim’s brother informed police he spoke to him about 12 hours before his death, noticing his speech was slurred and it sounded as if he had something in his mouth.
Travis Mullis stood trial before a Galveston County jury on March 7, 2011, for the murder of Alijah Mullis. During the trial itself, the videotape confession of Mullis was played; during his questioning by police, Mullis confessed to killing Alijah due to his incessant cries, stating that it was the only way to stop his son's crying.