Declared Dead in Dallas County (Out by December 31, 2024.)

Go to Declared Dead in Dallas County Plus+ (in progress now) for more pictures, documents, and videos  from the story. I didn’t decide to write Declared Dead in Dallas County. The story decided I would write it. I just happened to brush up against it one afternoon. After that, I couldn’t get…

Unlikely Victims: The 1965 University of Texas Sorority Sister Murders (Austin)

Go to Unlikely Victims Plus+  for more pictures from the story. Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby (both age 21) were Chi Omega sorority sisters who had attended the University of Texas. They came from good, hardworking families, and neither of them smoked, drank, or lived recklessly. They were beautiful, young…

Hi from the Heart of Texas!

My name is BK Smith. I’m a native Texan, small business owner, and an animal lover. Obviously, I also find true crime stories interesting, and I am especially interested when the crimes happened in Texas decades ago.  Little has been written about many of them. I got frustrated because I couldn’t…