INVESTIGATIVE PROJECTS
Longform
WASTELAND UNDERWATER
Texas Observer/Inside Climate News
On the central Texas coast, Lavaca Bay is already poisoned by mercury. Climate change will only make matters worse there—and at 944 other hazardous-waste sites across the country.
UP IN THE TOWER
Texas Monthly
When a deadly gas began leaking at the DuPont plant in La Porte, endangering hundreds of lives, the workers on the B shift did what they had to do. They grabbed their gear and went in.
UNATURAL CAUSES
AARP
The Case of the Texas Serial Elder Murders.
How the fatal age bias of police and others made it easy for a serial killer to continue his spree against two dozen older women in the Dallas area
TV
<PILLOW CASE MURDERS
Series Episodes
The series reveals shocking details of how the thefts and murders of more than two dozen senior citizens in Dallas suburbs were downplayed or covered up and he nearly got away undetected...
THE TEXAS KILLING FIELDS
Media Links
An overgrown field and a stretch of highway connect a series of grisly murders spanning several decades as grieving families search for answers.
Watch all episodes on Netflex.
THE ELEVEN
About the A&E Series
Watch the trailer of "The Eleven," which follows investigators as they re-examine the murders of eleven teenage girls after a confession letter from inmate and convicted murderer Edward Harold Bell. Bell also confessed to Olsen in an interview.
Watch the trailer of the Eleven, released in 2017.
Collaboration/Datajournalism
ABUSE OF FAITH
Houston Chronicle/ San Antonio Express News
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms
POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Texas Observer
In Texas, Corrupt Politicians Face Little Accountability. The Texas Rangers are tasked with investigating corruption and crimes by public officials. Those officials are rarely held accountable. For our full collaborative investigation "Justice For Some" on the Texas Rangers with KXAN, KTEP, and the Fort Worth Report, go here..
SUPERTHREATS
InsideClimate News/NBC/Texas Observer
Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change The Obama administration directed the EPA to focus on climate-related threats. Now, the Trump administration refuses to even use the word.
Recent Work
CONGRESSMAN'S ALLEGED SCHEME
Texas Observer
'You are the best El Jefe!': Henry Cuellar's Alleged Brazen Foreign Bribery Schemes. The allegations paint a stark picture of how foreign travel taken by a member of Congress outside of official U.S. Department of State trips may have been used by a foreign country to cultivate powerful American officials.
SPACEX LAND SWAP
Texas Observer
The SpaceX land swap is only the latest Texas public park giveaway. Does the state parks agency serve the people, or corporate interests?