In the year of the pandemic, cinemas have shuttered and films have been delayed. But that doesn t mean that there have been no stories to tell about life behind the camera and in front of the screen. This year, tragic closures and the exit of major figures in the local scene were matched by tales of resilience and innovation.
1: Burnie Burns Leaves Rooster Teeth, June 11. Photo by David Brendan Hall
It s no surprise when a story about Austin s streaming content pioneers is the biggest single story in the ATX creative community. But this one was tectonic. Burns wasn t just a founder of RT, he was the face of the company for a decade. Over 2019 he d started moving into the background more, taking less of a managerial role and more of a creative one, but that was a quiet early indicator of his exit for new horizons.
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statement, prosecutors are confident her dna on both the machete used in the dismemberment and the gunfired into the corpse will convince jurors that laura mutilated her rival for colton s affections. on september 1st, 2007, laura is convicted of tampering with evidence, for cutting up jennifer s body, and hindering apprehension for driving colton to mexico. nonetheless, because of a procedural dispute involving the penalty phase, laura decides to appeal her five year sentence, but this time, bill bishop is prepared to let jurors hear the defendant s words, not from the interrogation, but a series of recorded jailhouse phone conversations. i m pretty mad. there s a lot of people that are going to pay for this. i hate them with a passion. among the targets of laura s anger, jennifer cave s mother. she s going down one way or another, that bitch.
i knew that she had been shady before. how did you know she had been shady before if you didn t know who she was. he had told me about her. look, jennifer, there are other girls he knew. every girl he knew was sketched out. laura hall considered colton pitonyak to be her boyfriend and had a dislike for jennifer cave. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, we believe laura hall stabbed the torso and face. and he told me that she came in and shot at him and missed and that he shot her. he said in the head. he also said he shot her in the chest. she s trying at all times to outsmart them.
continue on without them. to pursue that mission, detective fugate explores the sixth street, the epicenter of austin s night life and the party scene that brought laura hall and colton pitonyak together. laura hall was infatuated with colton, however he was dating jennifer cave at the time. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, laura hall may have taken part in the mutilation of the body. as far as stabbing cave in the upper torso, the right side of her face and firing a round into the cranial vault of her head. six days later authorities track laura and colton in a hotel room in piedras negras. laura isn t arrested.