The San Antonio Express-News recently ran an interview with Gary L. Wells, a psychology professor at Iowa State University and also the director of social science for the American Judicature Society’s Institute of Forensic Science and Public Policy. Wells has been studying witness identification since 1975. He has conducted extensive research on lineup procedures and the accuracy of witness identification,…
A burglar in Fort Bend County was caught in early April by a family’s eight surveillance cameras, according to Kens5News.com. The family lives in the Village of Oak Lake subdivision near Sugar Land, according to Kens5, and had the surveillance cameras installed after “someone walked into their house a few months ago.” The cameras showed the thief getting into one…
A 44 year-old Von Ormy woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison of the September 2011 murder of her boyfriend. Beatrice Ann Ibanez pleaded guilty to stabbing Alfred Ramirez, 46, in the heart. Ibanez initially claimed self-defense after the murder. But prosecutors had a problem with that defense because it was the same one Ibanez used in 1996…
The San Antonio Express-News is reporting that the 22-year-old son of Tejano star Emilio Navaira III has been arrested on DWI charges. In the early morning hours of February 23rd, 2013, a police officer pulled over Emilio Casias Navaira IV as he was entering the ramp to southbound U.S. 281 from Northwest Loop 410 in his white SUV. The arresting…
Glen Dukes, 43, was already spending time in the Bexar County Jail when new charges were brought against him. Since February 7th, Dukes was being charged for several counts of human trafficking and other sex crimes. The former pimp has now been charged in connection with the murder of a former working girl back in June of 2012. The woman…
In early March a woman and her son were shot dead in their home, found by the woman’s sister, according to Click2Houston.com. A neighbor, Carlos Pomares, “was devastated to discover the loss of his neighbors, who he considers like family,” according to Click2Houston. “When I went inside the house, I found the mother dead on the sofa and the son…
Partners Claudia Friedman and Christy Stewart recently came home to their Houston, Tex. Apartment complex and found Stewart’s motorcycle covered in animal feces and urine. The Dallas Voice reported that the vandal wrote, “Fuck you move your dike (sic) bike now” in paint on the concrete around the motorcycle. Although the motorcycle was left unharmed, the bike’s cover was ruined. According to…
Four years ago, Chad William Schreiber ran over a motorcyclist while on his way home. The motorcyclist did not survive the incident and Schreiber was charged with intoxication manslaughter. On January 25, Schreiber pleaded no contest to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Schreiber, who entered law school in 2009 and finished his studies after the…
According to to a story by My San Antonio, states that Jacob Ryan Evans will indeed be charged with capital murder. Evans’ lawyers had previously asked that the capital murder charge be dropped to a lesser charge for the October murder of his mother and sister. The two choices for sentencing the defendant are either execution or life in prison…
The trial began recently for a young woman who died in a hit and run accident. On May 27th, 2011, Courtney Griffin was walking on the streets of Austin late at night after going to some bars with friends. Unfortunately, the 30 year old nanny and vet technician never made it home. Hours after the car accident, Austin Police questioned…