1987 – Katy – The Murder of Ester Collins, a Cold Case Going Back to November 6, 1987
Link to Vlog on YouTube It has been almost 40 years since the murder of Ester Darlene Collins. It happened on a Friday afternoon in Katy, Texas. Ester was working in a model home. It was a pretty house in the $80,000 range in 1987 (which would be about $300,000…
1991 – The Murder of Edwina Prosen (Sweeny)
The little town wasn’t stirring yet. It was a Sunday morning, the last one of September 1991, and a man was sitting on a bench. The bench was in Sweeny, Texas, a town with a population of 3,921 in 1991. If the term “bedroom community” needed a model, Sweeny could be…
1997 Beaumont – Meet the Winner of the Dumb Criminal and Dumber Attorney Award ’97
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In October 1993, Beaumont attorney Michael Mooney behaved badly … like the word meaning “donkey,” but it starts with an “a.” Mooney represented 30-year-old Troy Lincoln in a parole revocation hearing, and they lost. His client had been on parole for a drug trafficking conviction, and he was on his…
1972—Murders over Money in San Antonio, Indiana, and Ingram, Texas (Free Book Download)
In the summer of 1972, a respected banker left her home in Washington, Indiana, to meet a client from San Antonio, Texas after hours. She never came back.. Six months later, nearly a thousand miles away, three people were executed in their homes in the Texas Hill Country (Ingram,…
1965 – Three Fishermen Slaughtered by 17-year-old in the Laguna Madre (Near Corpus Christi)
It was the week before South Padre Island would be covered with college and high school students on spring break. Three Corpus Christi men decided it was time to go to the camp house and fish before the crowd of hormonal teens hit. On Monday, April 12, 1965, the trio…
Part 8 – Paul Taylor’s Day in Court and Two Big Fat Lies
First, an Announcement Hi all — if you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a private Facebook group run by Ashleigh Turczyn. It’s called Finding Becky Beard: Community Discussion, Ashleigh has been publishing new information and digging into areas I haven’t explored. She’s a masterful storyteller, and her posts have been deeply…
2012– Frank Howard Hired a Family of Misfits to Kill His Wife (Carrollton)
Frank and Nancy Howard had been married since 1983. Along the way, they had two daughters, Ashley and Brianna, and a son, Jay. The couple settled their family in Carrollton, Texas. Frank was an accountant with a small firm and a healthy client base in Dallas, and Nancy…
Rebecca Beard – Timeline (Work in Progress)
This timeline is a work in progress; I’ll be adding to it. Thanks for your interest in this story. [Please read the Disclaimer, Warning, & Disclosure at the bottom of this page.] TIMELINE (Updated 11:00 p.m. 08/28/2025) 1982 1982, Rebecca Beard graduated from high school and married Darrell Beard. They…
Timeline – Murder of Rebecca Beard in 1986
1982 – 1985 Timeline – only a few events 1986 Timeline – The year Rebecca Beard was murdered. 1987 – 1993 – Paul Taylor is returned to Brazoria County; he is arrested several more times; Rebecca is pronounced dead. 1994 – 1995 – Taylor is indicted for murder;…
Disclaimer – The Murder of Rebecca Beard
I’m working hard to finish my book Unlikely Victims while also covering Rebecca Beard’s story. I was looking over the disclaimer for my book and realized I need one for this story (actually, all my stories). So, going forward, this or something similar will be standard for all my projects. DISCLAIMER…