Berniest Wren was fishing last Friday when police called him to say his wife of 17 years was arrested on a murder warrant.
The family of Patricia Jones, 56, told him she was arrested in the case in 1986, but charges were later dropped.
But the case was reopened recently by "cold case" detectives at the Fort Worth Police Department.
Now the woman is back in jail, again facing charges in the 1986 death of her 19-month-old nephew, John P. Jones.
-- Bill Miller
Sixteen family and friends of Jessica Ridgeway, all wore her favorite color, purple, in a Golden, Colo. courtroom on Friday, to show solidarity for the slain 10-year-old girl.
The man suspected of kidnapping and dismembering her, Austin Sigg, shocked those in the courtroom by entering a not-guilty plea. This stunned them because of earlier police testimony that he had confessed to the crime.
After the hearing, Stigg, 18, turned around to face Jessica's supporters as deputies handcuffed him. He smiled awkwardly at them.
Writers from The Associated Press were there. Read their report here.
— Bill Miller
The father of a 3-year-old Hurst girl who was beaten to death last month was arrested Tuesday afternoon.
Robert Marquis Lamar Williams, 26, is accused of killing his daughter as she cried at their Hurst apartment.
Anastasia Williams, 3, was found shortly before 3:30 p.m. on March 22 in her bedroom.
She was pronounced dead from a laceration of the liver due to an injury to the abdomen caused by an assault.
Domingo Ramirez Jr. has this report.
— Bill Miller
Charles Bellamy, 27, seemed emotionless as jurors agreed with prosecutors that he be made to serve half of whatever sentence is handed down before he is eligible for parole, and that probation be taken off the table in the death of Jaz'mine Howard (shown here).
Joy Howard, the toddler's mother, had to be helped out of the courtroom after closing arguments during which one of the prosecutors described how Jaz'mine must have fought the tortuous death she endured on March 15, 2011.
Charles Bellamy (shown here) is being tried on murder charges in the death of his daughter, Jaz'mine, in 2011.
Nizam Peerwani, the Tarrant County medical examiner, testified that the burn pattern indicates that the child struggled to escape the scalding water.
"These immersion burns are very painful," he said. "As the heat continues, the skin begins to peel off."
The fire that killed four young children and seriously injured three others at a home day-care facility in Houston began when oil ignited inside a frying pan on a stove top burner that had been left on.
Testimony is expected to begin this week in the trial of Jessica Tata, 24, (shown here) who fled to Nigeria after the February 2011 blaze but was later captured by authorities.
Attorneys for the day care's owner insist that she never meant to harm anyone.
But Philip Hilder, a Houston criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said that while he doesn't think Tata intended to kill the children, that won't be the key issue at her trial.
"It's going to be hard to find a legitimate reason to excuse the abandonment of these children," Hilder said.
