N.J. woman pleads guilty to assault that prosecutors say was viewed in Austin
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey woman admitted Wednesday to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl she was allegedly babysitting and putting a video of the assault on the Internet. Jennifer Mahoney, 33,...
View ArticleMurder defendant allowed Mother's Day trip
Murder defendant Kaitlyn Ritcherson, 19, charged in the stabbing death of 21-year-old Huston-Tillotson student and track team member Fatima Barrie, will be allowed to leave Austin to spend Mother’s Day...
View ArticleJury selected in punch-and-run robbery trial
An eight-woman, four-man jury was selected Monday to begin hearing the case against Steven Lawrence Keller, 30, charged in a punch-and-run robbery captured on video outside an East Sixth Street bar...
View ArticleMissing witness delays punch-and-run robbery trial
A key witness set to testify against 30-year-old Steven Lawrence Keller, who is charged in the punch-and-run robbery of a woman, failed to show in Travis County district court on Tuesday, forcing...
View ArticleNew trial for man who challenged pedophilia test as junk science
The Texas Supreme Court today ordered a new sentence for Michael Arena, a Harker Heights man who has served almost 13 years of a 20-year sentence for molesting a young cousin who later said the...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to murder in 2010 parking lot shooting
Francesca Marie Luna, 28, pleaded guilty to murder today in District Court in Travis County in connection with the shooting death of 23-year-old Cynthia Martinez in November 2010. Luna, seen at right,...
View ArticleJudge: Overturn Cathy Lynn Henderson conviction, death sentence
Cathy Lynn Henderson, once two days from execution for the 1994 death of an infant she was baby sitting, should have her murder conviction and death sentence overturned, a Travis County judge has...
View ArticleGrand jury no-bills Cedar Park police officer involved in fatal shooting
A Williamson County grand jury no-billed a Cedar Park police officer Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a man behind a restaurant in February. The jury declined to indict Cedar Park...
View ArticleGeorgetown man sentenced to 30 years in connection with sexual assault on...
An illegal immigrant living in Georgetown who tried to to bribe his victim was convicted of burglary of a habitation with attempt to commit sexual assault, according to the Williamson County District...
View ArticleJury picked for capital murder case from 1978
4 p.m. update: A panel of six men and six women has been selected in the trial. Judge David Crain has put the trial in recess until 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. Earlier: Jury selection began this morning in...
View ArticleFormer medical examiner said '78 slaying victim died of asphyxiation
3 p.m. update: Dr. Roberto Bayardo, former Travis County chief medical examiner, said his autopsy examination showed “extensive damage with bruising and swelling to the genital area.” He also said he...
View ArticleDetective: Man on trial in 1978 rape, murder was a suspect early on
Retired Austin police homicide investigator Jerry Raines testified Thursday that he suspected Lester Ray Guy might have raped and killed Hazel Ivy in 1978, but prosecutors and Guy’s defense lawyers...
View ArticleArena, who fought questionable pedophile test, to be freed from prison
Michael Arena, almost 13 years into a 20-year prison sentence for molesting a young cousin who later said the incident never happened, will be released from prison as early as this afternoon, his...
View ArticleGuy found guility of 1978 rape, murder
Update 8:15 p.m.: After four days of testimony and less than three hours of deliberation, a Travis County jury found Lester Ray Guy guilty of capital murder in the cold case death of Hazel Ivy. Update...
View ArticleBoth sides agree video will be key in capital murder trial
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the double capital murder case against Jorge Gutierrez told jurors today that surveillance cameras at a Northeast Austin strip club will respectively convict and...
View ArticleWoman gets 30 years in plea deal from 2010 slaying
Francesca Marie Luna, 28, who had earlier pleaded guilty in the 2010 shooting death of 23-year-old Cynthia Martinez in a North Austin parking lot, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. “She took the...
View ArticleLester Ray Guy receives life sentence for 1978 rape, murder
Lester Ray Guy, convicted last week of a 34-year-old cold case rape and murder, was today sentenced to life in prison by Travis County District Judge David Crain. Guy is already serving a 99-year...
View ArticleUpdate: Man found guilty in 2010 slaying of stepbrothers
A Travis County jury returned just before 4 p.m. today with a guilty verdict in the capital murder case against Jorge Gutierrez, who is accused of killing two stepbrothers. He will serve a sentence of...
View ArticleFifteen members of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel indicted in Austin
Fifteen members of the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel — including co-leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales — have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Austin on money laundering conspiracy charges. The...
View ArticleMan guilty in Liberty bar punch-and-run case
Update 4:35 p.m. A Travis County jury today found Steven Lawrence Keller guilty of aggravated robbery in the punch and run purse snatching of a woman outside an East Austin bar last year. The jury...
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