It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.
Jason Landry’s disappearance confounded the state’s top investigators. When thousands of online sleuths got involved, intrigue turned into obsession.
Illustration by Hokyoung Kim
Jason Landry’s disappearance confounded the state’s top investigators. When thousands of online sleuths got involved, intrigue turned into obsession.
Nine years after the brutal murder of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop rocked the city of Austin, the police say they have finally caught the killers. But they have no evidence and no witnesses—only two confessions that the defendants say were coerced. Which is why, when the case
In 2016 a popular teenager disappeared in the tiny Panhandle community of Canadian, Texas. Two years later, his remains were discovered beneath a tree outside of town. But to this day, no arrests have been made, and nearly everyone involved in the case has fallen under suspicion.
A daughter’s gruesome murder became a grieving father’s dark crusade to find her killer and thrust him into an ever-widening spotlight as an advocate for victims of violent crime.
When Warren Jeffs fired his attorneys and decided to represent himself in his sexual assault trial, many predicted, accurately, that he would fail miserably. Few realized just what a wild show he would put on.
As Texas led a global revolution in designer party drugs, one restless club kid built an empire of ecstasy. His life is an all-American story of entrepreneurship, moral flexibility, and the heedless pursuit of happiness.
The young, tattooed men who are members of the Southwest Cholos, La Primera, La Tercera Crips, Somos Pocos Pero Locos, Mara Salvatrucha, and other Houston gangs are vicious career criminals who regularly rob innocent people in some of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. They steal cars and break into businesses.
Erik Maund had it all. Then came a perfect storm of secrets, mistaken identities, and tragic miscommunications that left two people dead.
The latest true crime series from Texas Monthly tells the story of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by an executive at one of Austin's best-known car dealerships.
Erik Maund had it all. A wife and kids, a mansion, and an executive position with his family’s car dealership. Then a message from a stranger put everything at risk.
When Bill Lanway learned his girlfriend Holly Williams was an escort, he reacted with jealousy and violence. The scheme he hatched next put them both in peril.
Facing a threat to his reputation, Erik Maund turns to his car dealership’s security guy, Gil Peled, who claimed to be an Israeli special forces veteran—and really was Charlie Sheen’s former bodyguard.
With little to show for their time in Nashville, the men on the ground propose a radical escalation: for a premium, they can fix Erik’s problem permanently.
Red agrees to a risky operation to help the investigation: going undercover to get Adam Carey and Bryon Brockway talking about the murders while the FBI listens in.
As investigators close in, they set a trap to see how far Erik Maund will go to maintain control of the situation.
In our first bonus episode with "The Problem With Erik," we're sharing an extended cut of the undercover audio Red recorded for the FBI, as he tried to get Adam Carey and Bryon Brockway to talk about the murders.
Go behind the scenes of "The Problem With Erik," with a Q&A among members of the podcast production team.
Host Katy Vine speaks with two men at the heart of the most infamous murder-for-hire case in Texas history.
Before convicting the Austin auto executive in a murder-for-hire conspiracy, a jury was mistakenly given evidence it shouldn't have seen. That may mean a whole new trial next year.
Executive editor Skip Hollandsworth revisits his 2001 feature about a Houston investigator who posed as a killer for hire.
Urban refugees fleeing high-tech Dallas have created ersatz rural communities in the nearby countryside. This isolated, pastoral life sometimes erupts into adultery and murder.
Candy Montgomery thought her affair with Allan Gore was over, until she found herself fighting for her life against Allan’s wife.
HBO Max turned my house into that of Candy Montgomery, played by Elizabeth Olsen. Then things got hyperreal.