The Execution of Peggy Lynn Howard
The morning of Monday, October 26th, 1998 was like any other for Peggy Lynn Howard and her young daughter. The two got up, performed their normal morning routine, and left their home for school and wo...
22 Jul 202418min
The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 6: Final Injustice
Managing editor of the Clifton Record, W. Leon Smith, continued working both Judy Whitley and Mickey Bryan’s cases for years. In 1999, when ex-Clifton policeman Dennis Murry Dunlap was officially name...
19 Jul 202428min
The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 5: Killer Cop
In 1991, Don Whitley visited the editor of the local newspaper with a plea: help him get justice for his daughter, slain Clifton, Texas teenager Judy Whitley. He had a suspect in mind who might also b...
15 Jul 202432min
The Bosque County Execution of Shelia Vandygriff
In August of 1984, just five months after 13-year-old Helen Kilgore was found murdered on the side the road, authorities in Bosque County, Texas had another body – that of 19-year-old Hood County woma...
8 Jul 202426min
The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 4: Joe Takes the Stand
When it was time for the defense to present their case in the State of Texas V. Joe Dale Bryan, for the murder of Mickey Marlene Bryan, attorney Charles McDonald was confident he’d get his client off....
3 Jul 202428min
The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 3: Reasonable Doubt
As the State of Texas V. Joe Dale Bryan got underway, the prosecution was pulling no punches. Witnesses from Texas Ranger Joe Wiley to victim Mickey Bryan’s brother Charlie Blue had damning indictment...
1 Jul 202428min
The Murder of Mickey Bryan Part 2: The Famous Clifton Rumor Mill
A few months before Clifton Elementary fourth grade teacher Mickey Bryan was slain, another unimaginable and heinous crime took place less than a mile away. There were rampant whispers going around wh...
24 Jun 202428min
The Bosque County Slaying of Helen Kilgore
Before the 1985 murder of 4th grade teacher Mickey Bryan in Clifton, there were several other murders, including the April 1984 murder of 13-year-old Helen Kilgore, whose body was found in Bosque Coun...
20 Jun 202418min
