Charles Whitman Stephens, Jr., age 82, passed away on Thursday, August 25, 2022. Born in Columbus County, NC on August 12, 1940, he was the son of the late Charles Whitman Stephens, Sr. and Maude ...

Jo Scott-Coe talks about her book, “Unheard Witness,” which tells the story of the life and death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, who was the wife of the man who carried out the 1966 mass shooting from the ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, mass murder in the form of a rampage shooting on a school campus blasted its way into the American consciousness – never to leave. This searing event also took place in the ...

Ask ChatGBT about the 1966 shooting rampage at the University of Texas at Austin, and you will get the basics of common knowledge. On that terrible day, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took his ...

People are oddly fascinated with horrible happenings. We get it. Some want to see the evidence and make contact with people who perpetrated the crimes. But it’s still stunning to see the gun Charles ...

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Last August, with little fanfare, the University of Texas marked the 40th anniversary of what then was the nation's worst mass shooting. Until Monday's carnage at Virginia Tech, ...

Texas sniper Charles Whitman's story stands out for many reasons, not least of which being that it features a co-star - the University of Texas Tower from which he fired almost unimpeded for 96 ...

Editor's note: This article by Sam Kindrick originally appeared in the San Antonio Express on Aug. 2, 1966, one day after the University of Texas Tower shooting. It was one of several to appear on the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) —Friday marks 59 years since the tragic University of Texas Tower shooting. On Aug. 1, 1966, a man by the name of Charles Whitman disguised himself as a janitor and carried bags of guns ...

Like bank robberies in the 1920s and violent crimes fueled by the illegal drug trade in the 1980s and early 1990s, active shooter incidents have become one of the biggest challenges for 21st-century ...

A few hours before he arrived at the University of Texas tower to kill 13 people and wound 31 others. Charles Whitman strolled into an Austin hardware store and picked out several boxes of rifle ...