By Jon Sullivan
Mar 16, 2021
Houston has seen its share of gruesome crimes over the years, dating back to the apparent poisoning of Rice University benefactor William Marsh Rice in 1900. But the following can be counted among the most unsettling in recent history.
1970-1973 - Houston s most notorious serial killings - Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., Dean Corll and David Owen Brooks committed a series of murders in which at least 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered. Many were lured to Corill s home in Pasadena where they died. Most of their bodies were recovered from Corll’s southwest Houston boat shed. Others were buried in remote areas of East Texas and at the beach. Henley, now 65 and serving six life sentences, said he shot and killed Corll self-defense. Brooks died in prison of COVID-19 last year.
By Cliff Saunders
Mar 5, 2021
This is probably not a surprise, but a new study shows that Americans are getting back on the road again in pre-pandemic numbers. Tim Lomax of the institute of transportation at Texas A&M told KTRH, it s very clear that the economy has caused traffic to come back and that s a good thing. Good for some, but not everybody. Public transportation is still way down, with the big ride sharing duo of UBER and Lyft dropping almost 50% of their business in 2020. Certainly the ride share services took a hit as people were afraid to get into a car with a stranger Lomax said. And as far the outlook for their recovery? Lomax believes it s going to look a lot like the recovery of the economy. Some sectors are going to have much better ridership. The study also points out that Americans now feel safer in their own cars, which have now become an extension of home.