Kaufman County

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — A North Texas woman has pleaded guilty to murder and been sentenced to 40 years in prison after she testified that she helped her husband gun down a district attorney, his wife and a top assistant in a revenge plot.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — The estranged wife of a former justice of the peace in North Texas is expected to plead guilty to murder in connection with the 2013 slayings of a district attorney, his wife and a top prosecutor.

ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — Jurors are considering life in prison or the death penalty for a former justice of the peace convicted of killing a prosecutor's wife in North Texas.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — A court document is among the windows into the alleged motive for the slayings of two Texas prosecutors.

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — A former North Texas justice of the peace and his wife have been indicted on capital murder charges in the slayings of three people, including two prosecutors. A local grand jury indicted Eric and Kim Williams on Thursday...

Former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams and wife Kim have been accused of capital murder in connection to the shooting deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia, as well as the murder of Assistant DA Mark Hasse...

Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down Thursday morning outside the courthouse where he worked. Witnesses say two men dressed in black clothes, masks and vests approached the courthouse in a dark, late model Ford and fired several times, killing Mr...