D Magazine January 2016
Cover Story
To Live and Die in Big D
Stories of murders, mysteries, and a massacre.
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Features
Cover Story
Dallas, Noir City
Why this is the perfect place for gritty, engrossing true crime stories about bad guys and the hardworking cops who bring them to justice.
By Harry Hunsicker
Crime
The Trinity River Massacre
It spawned the biggest manhunt since Bonnie and Clyde, but few today remember that bloody night in 1971.
By Brendan McNally
Cover Story
The Mystery of the Oak Cliff Corpse
My troubled former Winnetka Heights neighbor vanished. Then a body was discovered. Whom did they find?
By Brantley Hargrove
Publications
How This South African Is Salvaging Dallas’ Cultural History
Meet Michael van Enter, the city’s foremost art restorer.
By Peter Simek
Nature & Environment
DFW Airport’s Scare Tactics
Wildlife administrator and biologist Cathy Boyles keeps the birds away so you can fly safely.
By Nancy Nichols
Business
What Toyota Transplants Think of North Texas
We asked five of the relocating automaker’s employees about their new neighborhoods.
By Matt Hawkins
Government
How the League of Women Voters Fails Dallas
The group has a proud history, but it needs to change if it wants to be effective.
By Eric Celeste
Fashion
How Dallas Dresses: Charles Smith II
Leaving basketball behind, he now wants to make it big in fashion.
Crime
My Brother, the Murderer
A beautiful young mother, a dark family secret, and a new suspect in a 45-year-old mystery
Business
How to Clean a Crime Scene
A pro shares the tips of his blood-soaked trade.
By Brad Nicholson
Crime
Cold Case Files: Diamond Traders Robbed
The Israeli Diamond Industry has warned jewelers about a violent gang in Dallas.
By D Magazine
Crime
The Southland Syndicate
How Benny Binion built a gambling empire in downtown Dallas.
By Doug J. Swanson
Crime
Cold Case Files: The Campbell Children
What happened to Myrisha Faye and A.J. Jr.?
By D Magazine
Cover Story
The $1 Billion Plano Gambling Ring
I worked undercover for 10 years to bust these bookies. It all started with an anonymous tip.
Crime
Cold Case Files: Double Homicide in Northeast Dallas
Paula Zickefoose and her brother Talmadge were found dead in her apartment in 1984.
By D Magazine
Crime
Cold Case Files: The Sorority Attacks
Who’s targeting members of Delta Sigma Theta?
By D Magazine
Crime
Money, Love, Bloodust
The people involved with some of Dallas’ most notorious cases.
By D Magazine
Crime
Murder, Inc.
Inside the sometimes-mundane workday of the Dallas PD’s homicide squad.
By Dick J. Reavis
Crime
Cold Case Files: A Former Dallas Cowboy Murdered
Was the death of Colin Ridgway a murder-for-hire plot?
By D Magazine
Crime
Dallas Crime Through the Decades
What the numbers say about crimes in our city since 1945.
By D Magazine
Crime
The Pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde
A newspaper clipping from the search for the infamous bank robbers.
By D Magazine
Publications
Restaurant Review: Fortune House
Owner Lucy Yong’s love of the soup dumplings of her native Shanghai shines through.
Publications
Restaurant Review: Truluck’s
Trying out the Uptown seafood restaurant’s new digs.
By Nancy Nichols
Nightlife
Bar Review: ZaLat
The downtown Plano spot switched from serving Vietnamese fusion cuisine to pizza.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Humor
Monkey Business
A serious question concerning Dez Bryant and his “new best friend.”
By Zac Crain