Houston has its share of modern-day crimes that we’ll always remember, but if you reach back into so-called simpler times, the same bizarre cruelty surfaces, from a child torturer in the Heights to a serial killer dumping women onto a desolate League City field. It tragically really happened here.
The death of Joan Robinson Hill, daughter of Houston oil millionaire Ash Robinson, 54 years ago led to a murder-by-omission charge against her husband.