Watch Jessica Willey’s new report on developments in the Candyman murder on ABC13 Houston - featuring an interview with the family of a victim whose ID hasn’t been announced. abc13.com/amp/post/dean-… - then read my book The Scientist and the Serial Killer for more info!

In our magazine: Our Editor @lisedigger takes us to the Austin studio of @StephenHarrigan, as he explores his own religious upbringing, a famous prophecy, and the life of a child prophet in his compelling new book. texasobserver.org/stephen-harrig…

Thanks to Lise Olsen for this so-well-written profile of moi in the venerable Texas Observer.

i'm moving to DC in 2 weeks and i'm really going to miss houston, my famously beautifully elevated, salubrious and well watered hometown 😭

New book- The Scientist and the Serial Killer- reveals how one scientist dedicated her life to identifying the 'lost boys' of Houston chron.com/culture/articl… via Chron

Not to be ~earnest~ but I once decided to be insane and leave a prestigious job so I'd be able to write these kinds of stories — to slip into new worlds, to add the shards of disaster into meaning, to create opportunities for empathy Awards aren't everything but this means a lot

Months after detaining 47 people accused of being Tren de Aragua in Austin, authorities offer no evidence of gang ties bit.ly/3FwUO4B

Texas' largest chlorine gas leak in years exposed holes in Brazoria County's public alert systems houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

Former Jan. 6 defendant Kyle Colton says Donald Trump's pardon also covers his child pornography charge because it stemmed from the J6 search warrant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

SCOOP: The Texas National Guard is pulling 2,500 troops from Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star to respond to anti-Trump protests. Internal memos obtained by Austin Statesman show they're scrambling to find more troops. #txlege

Greg Abbott Austin Statesman The memos were signed by Texas’ top military officer, Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, and include details on the logistics of the deployment: statesman.com/story/news/pol…

The Atlantic — which added ~100,000 new subscribers in the single week after breaking the Signal story — has been on a very expensive hiring spree: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Seattle friends - join me next Monday Elliott Bay Book Co. with Lewis Kamb #newbooks #indiebookstores #truecrime elliottbaybook.com/events/46814

Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir -- Lise Olsen Texas Observer texasobserver.org/locals-oppose-…

See ya later, Houston. I am heading north to become an editor at the St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis Post-Dispatch ). It’s not easy leaving my home of the last 35 years, where I met my wife and raised three kids. But a new adventure awaits. Just need to find a house with room for my rocks.

From @Lisedigger: One of Entergy’s favored pathways for the project would cut across about a mile of the reservoir. And yet Entergy didn’t ever bother to inform the City of Houston—which gets about 70 percent of the water produced by the reservoir. texasobserver.org/locals-oppose-…

Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's. “I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.”

Our top story, from Sandy West: Family preservation and child welfare advocates told the Observer that women are at risk of losing their children to a privately run shadow foster and adoption system that is operating with little oversight or regulation. texasobserver.org/private-adopti…

From Lise Olsen in our magazine: A sharp-eyed retiree uncovered evidence of judicial misconduct by the chief judge of Houston’s busy bankruptcy court. The unusual story highlights how other complaints against judges go ignored. texasobserver.org/disorder-in-th…