Texas Crime Stories

The staged kidnapping of an 8-month-old baby angered the entire San Antonio community. The details of the case shocked many and three people ended up behind bars. In this week’s episode, we revisit the killing of King Jay Davila, labeled by an investigative reporter as “one of the most horrific child abuse cases that Bexar County has seen probably the last 30 years.” Learn more about your ad choic...

Well known San Antonio businessman Mike Yuchnitz found himself behind bars in 2010. The eyewear salesman was facing charges for allegedly hiring someone to kill his wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The murder of a San Antonio Police Department detective in broad daylight, right in front of headquarters shocked the city in 2016. We look back at the impact Det. Benjamin Marconi had on so many and revisit the trial of the man convicted of his murder we all watched last summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bridget Townsend was 18 when she disappeared and it would be two years before a man heading to prison for life would reveal what happened to her. That man, Ramiro Gonzales, now on death row has had his execution delayed 6 times, Leigh and Erica recap this crime and how Gonzales has been able to delay his execution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been over six months since then-3-year-old Lina Khil vanished from her family’s apartment complex. KSAT sat down with San Antonio Police Chief William McManus about the case to see where it is and where it goes from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicholas Plaza was last seen in October 2001 but wasn't until a month later that he was reported missing. What happened to Nicholas Plaza? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018, Juan David Ortiz targeted sex workers along the U.S. Mexico border where he worked as a border patrol agent. He was the serial killer no one expected; a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2007, Joseph Gamboa was convicted of the double murders at Taco Land. He speaks for the first time ever on death row. Also, psychologist Dr. John Delatorre gives his take on the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2005, the legendary Taco Land was changed forever after a robbery and double murder took the life of the owner and the doorman. We take a look at the why Taco Land, Ram Ayala and Doug Morgan meant so much to so many and for the first time ever we hear from the man who committed this crime as he sits on death row. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1987, Dianna Lowery was brutally murdered inside her San Antonio duplex. It would be 35 years before justice would be served for her murder. Exclusive testimony from Larry Moore's capital murder trial will be released during this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Bea Perez was only 9-years-old when she was kidnapped from Market Square during Fiesta 1999. A week later her body was found. What nobody knew at the time that a monster was among them, a cross country serial killer named Tommy Lynn Sells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brazen, horrifying attacks took place at different apartment complexes in the Medical Center area of San Antonio. Women were being robbed and raped. It would be almost two years before a suspect was caught, and to everyone's shock it was a teenager committing the crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 1997 a gruesome discovery was found in the back yard of a San Antonio home. Hundreds of pieces of bone fragments that were later determined to be those of Monika Rizzo and the yard they were found in was her own yard at the home she shared with her husband Leonard Rizzo. Nobody was ever arrested for this crime and Rizzo's case remains unsolved. Find more episodes here: https://www...

On the coldest night of the year in 2011, 18-month-old Joshua Davis disappears from his home in New Braunfels. The case remains open but his disappearance is still a mystery. What happened to Joshua Davis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

South Texas Crime Stories, hosted by KSAT 12 reporters Erica Hernandez and Leigh Waldman, will focus on cold cases, unsolved murders and other true crime stories out of Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices