A Halloween Killing at the Convent: Did Texas Execute the Wrong Man?

A quiet convent. A nun missing morning Mass. And a Halloween murder that would eventually send a teenager to Texas death row. On Halloween morning in 1981, 76-year-old Sister Tadea Benz was found dead inside her room at St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas. What first appeared to be a natural death quickly became a murder investigation. But the conviction and execution that followed would not put the questions surrounding Sister Tadea’s murder to rest. Decades later, troubling evidence, a...