MARBLE FALLS, Texas (KXAN) — KXAN investigators take listeners on a winding path along Backbone Creek and the mystery behind a young girl’s strangulation in 1965. As the case unravels, our team discovers efforts underway to strengthen and modernize an antiquated system still used in most Texas counties, where an elected official may determine cause and manner of death with scant training and often without autopsies or forensic expertise.
Experience our “Catalyst” podcast below, and check out our previous seasons on LGBTQ+ issues, medical debt, custodial deaths, mental competency in jails, mass violence and missing persons in Texas.