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…
Summer of 1965 – The Icebox Murders in Houston, Texas
Hey all! B.K. Smith here today from Vintage Texas Crimes! I’ve got a grisly story today that I have never heard about and I grew up just 40 miles south of Houston where it all took place. Today, on my blog you can read the story, or hear it. This morning,…
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…