By Robert Riggs Jane Howatt stopped mid-sip of her morning coffee. A newspaper headline jumped off the front page. The LAPD awarded its Distinguished Service Medal to 64 year 64-year-old homicide detective John St. John for solving the notorious freeway murder case. The 37-year-old suburban housewife could not put down the paper as her two […]
50th Anniversary of “11 Days in Hell” – The Deadly Hostage Siege at the Huntsville Prison
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Fifty years ago, Huntsville, Texas, became the center of national attention as a tense prison hostage crisis unfolded inside its first state prison known as the “The Walls Unit.” For 11 days behind its 15-foot red brick wall in the sweltering summer of 1974, three armed inmates held fifteen people hostage, culminating […]