In January, the Department of Justice released its report assessing law enforcement failures in the horrific attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The 2022 shooting caused the deaths of ...

Jo Scott-Coe talks about her book, “Unheard Witness,” which tells the story of the life and death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, who was the wife of the man who carried out the 1966 mass shooting from the ...

Charles Whitman Stephens, Jr., age 82, passed away on Thursday, August 25, 2022. Born in Columbus County, NC on August 12, 1940, he was the son of the late Charles Whitman Stephens, Sr. and Maude ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, mass murder in the form of a rampage shooting on a school campus blasted its way into the American consciousness – never to leave. This searing event also took place in the ...

In November 2001, David Gunby died of lifelong kidney disease in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital. Gunby, 58, became the 17th murder victim of Charles J. Whitman, the monster who put shooting massacres on ...

People are oddly fascinated with horrible happenings. We get it. Some want to see the evidence and make contact with people who perpetrated the crimes. But it’s still stunning to see the gun Charles ...

Texas sniper Charles Whitman's story stands out for many reasons, not least of which being that it features a co-star - the University of Texas Tower from which he fired almost unimpeded for 96 ...

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Last August, with little fanfare, the University of Texas marked the 40th anniversary of what then was the nation's worst mass shooting. Until Monday's carnage at Virginia Tech, ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The modern era of mass shootings began here on a searing summer day in 1966. Just before noon, from high atop the University of Texas Tower, an ex-Marine sharpshooter named Charles ...

AUSTIN — Houston McCoy, the police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's deadly 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas clock tower that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, ...

AUSTIN, Texas - August 1 marks 55 years since the warm Austin morning when just before noon 25-year old engineering student and former marine Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top of The ...

A 39-year-old Wyandotte man was charged in the beating death of his girlfriend nearly two years ago, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Thursday. Charles Whitman was arraigned Thursday in ...