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More happened in 2023 than Texas Monthly could cover. Staffers selected their favorite stories from other outlets.

Amazons MGM Studios has won a competitive bidding war to adapt Vanity Fairs story surrounding a Texas serial killer

Amazon has won yet another bidding war, this time for Vanity Fair's juicy story 'True Crime, True Faith.

Amazon has won out in the effort to secure rights to a recent Vanity Fair article on serial killer survivor Margy Palm.

EXCLUSIVE: After circling rights for weeks to the buzzy Vanity Fair article “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” Amazon MGM Studios has locked them down, Deadline understands. Executive producer and production attachments on True Crime, True Faith are premature and cannot be confirmed at this time. While certain buyers …

Amazon MGM Studios has won the bidding war for the rights to Julie Miller's Vanity Fair article True Crime, True Faith.

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At 83, the former House speaker just might buck another trend — the one suggesting octogenarian lawmakers should hang up their spiked heels.

In 1981, a man shoved a gun into Magaret's back and abducted her. What she did next changed both of their lives, and became friends. Read more.

"I became friends with a serial killer," says Margy Palm. But not just any serial killer—the one who may have very well intended to kill her. Palm tells her story...