Former Lupe Tortilla employee sentenced one year for hidden restroom camera
A former Lupe Tortilla employee has been sentenced to one year in state jail after pleading guilty to placing a hidden camera inside a restroom at the restaurant’s Katy Freeway location, according to Harris County court records. Bayron Elias Pu, 31,…
Death, contract kills, and mistrials made Houston’s “murder Mansion”
Joan Robinson Hill’s death in 1969 led to one of Houston’s most widely known criminal cases, involving multiple autopsies, a rare murder charge, a mistrial, the later killing of her husband and convictions connected to that killing. Hill was born Feb. 6,…
The Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit: Where women spend a lifetime waiting to die
GATESVILLE — The Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit sits north of Gatesville, on 97 acres in Coryell County. To the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, it is one women’s prison among many, with custody levels, medical services, education programs, work…