Stories in How Did They Die? Murders in Northern Texas 1926-1975

 

Katie Goodman and William M. Hoover - Married Man Kills Married Woman over Jealously in Wichita Falls, TX

Tom R. Shook , William "Oscar" Daugherty  and James D. Martin - Former Wichita Falls and Electra Police Officer Kills Man in Electra and Man in Decatur County, Tennessee on Crime Spree

Floyd Newton Byrn, Rosa Schirra & Myrna "Peggy" & Clara Juergens - Chauffeur Killed and Dismembered Three Women In San Angelo, TX

Richard David Burnett and Eddie Hedgcoth - Fun Dance Party Turns Deadly in Iowa Park, Texas

Joe Shield & James, Alice and Opal Shields Shield - Estranged Husband Kills Wife & In-Laws in Brookesmith, Brown County, TX

Eugene Farrar & Ray Lunsford - Man Found Burned to Death 

in Car in Dallas

Richard Johnson, Richard Brown, Ted Noduft & Vera Smith - Man Gunned Downed & Fiancé Assaulted in Wichita Falls, Texas

Laura Bernice Clayton, Paul & Coy Oakley & Sherman Clayton - "Laying of Hands" Religious Healing Turns Into Murder in Cass County, Texas

Augustus "Dwight" Beard and John R. Roberts - Retired Dallas Police Officer Killed in Dallas by Career Criminal from North Carolina

Lilly Myrtle Huckabee Gorden & Ellen and Bessie Gorden - Despondent Mother Kills Her Daughters and Then Herself in Electra, Texas

Wilma Harrison & Cora Harvick Matthews Hawthorne - Woman Kills Husband's Mistress in Popular Department Store in Wichita Falls, TX

Ruby Britain and Horace Nichols - Jealous Woman Kills Married Man Because He Is Seeing Other Women Other Then His Wife 

Charles S. Richardson and son Elga Richardson - Father and Son Quarrel Over Money in Olney, Young County, Texas

Annie Lankford and Ollie Tipton - Woman Shoots Man in the Groin after a Night of Drinking in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas

Clarence Duncan, Mary Jones and G.H. Jones - Man Kills Wife and Sets House on Fire and Later Kills Former Employer and Dumps His Weighted Down Body in Lake Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas

William Roswell Robbins and Grace Lena Musgrave Robbins - Murder/Suicide in Wichita Falls, Texas

Maude Austin Hefley and Fred L. Johnston - Obsessively in Love a Man Kills a Woman in Wichita Falls, Texas

Emery Moss and Larue Ralph Moss - Husband Distraught Over Wife's Infidelity Shoots & Kills Her While She Hid in a Closet in Wichita Falls, Texas

Wade L. Allison and Robert H. McFarlane - WPA Supervisor Killed in Altercation with Former Employee in Burkburnett, Texas

Velma Williams Patterson and Dorothy Leon and Billie Faye McCasland - Mother is Charged with the Murder of her Daughters in Sulphur Springs, Texas

Clarence Abston, Clarence Matura and Friends involved in Several Murders - Herschel Melton Burned and Elderly Rebecca Coursey Beat to Death in Haskell County, Texas

Frank Salazar & The Paul P. Kennedy Family - Man Kills Husband and Wife, Bashes in the Heads of Their Two Daughters and Kidnaps Their Oldest Daughter in Tom Green County, Texas

Corinne Maddox and Brooks Coffman - Man Stabs Woman - Later She Blows Him Away in the Streets of Dallas

Arlin Reese and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gold Rhinehart-Man Kills Common Law Wife while she is in Labor in Mexia, Limestone County, TX

Hulon M. and Mary Cordia Berta Lee Mauldin - Husband Kills Wife on 10^th Floor of Hamilton Building in Wichita Falls, Texas

Kirby Alexander Keel and Joe B. Moore - Capt. With Wichita Falls Police Department Kills his Violent Son-In-Law in Wichita Falls, Texas

Gertrude Combs and Mack Carter - Crazed Ex-Husband Shoots Wife in the Back as They Walk Out of the House Together in Wichita Falls, Texas

Marlin Camp and Irvin Goodspeed - Newspaper Carrier Brutally Killed by Ex Con in Montague County, Texas

Elbert J., Lessie , Woodrow and Clayton Rushing - Heads Bashed In By a Flat Iron in Jasper County, Texas

Billy Joe and Ruth Morphis Breeden - Husband Strangles Wife in Fort Worth, Texas and Can't Explain Why He Did It

Raymond Daugherty and Raymond Morrow - Fight Over Cussing in Front of a Lady Leads to a Fight in Electra, Wichita County, Texas

Ben and Lafon Langford - Prominent Son of Wichita Falls Pioneer Drugs and Shoots  Ex Wife in the Head in Wichita Falls, Texas

Thomas Houston Gibbons, Thomas Coy Saucier and David Beck - Mental Patient is Stomped to Death by Hospital Attendants in State Hospital in Wichita Falls, TX   

Beatrice "Bea" Crowson and Sam Bourland - Woman Gunned Down by Angry Neighbor in Wichita Falls, TX

Horace Robinson and Arnold Thom - Jilted Lover Kills Common Law Wife's New Boyfriend in Wichita Falls, Texas

John P Hunter & Elva May Adams - Husband Kills Wife & Leaves Her in House for 5 Days While He Slept on the Couch - Wichita Falls, Texas

Cecil J. Byrd, Arthur M. McLain and John Preston Beard  - Sheppard AFB Police Rob Business Kill and Owner in Wichita Falls, TX

Gertie Marie & Gus Cavet along with Sheriff Ham Vance - Woman Kills Husband & Has a Relationship With the Sheriff in Wichita Falls, TX

Bobby and Abbie McGregor Burns - Most Famous Murder-Suicide in Wichita Falls, Texas

Jim Keith, William Pinson, Clyde Burns, Alton Fanchier, Jr. & Lonnie Dale Loyd - "Witches Gate" Ghost Story - Burglary & Murder in Clay County, Texas