A runaway airman slaughters a family of three as they sleep in their beds.
One thing\'s for sure: The good old days weren\'t always so good..
Take a trip across the causeway for a True crime journey through seven decades of Galveston\'s past.
Others walked free.
Some killers paid for their crimes with their lives.
Island Indictments recounts the tales of 25 crimes that shocked the city and left juries wrestling with justice.
Their stories are just as much a part of Galveston\'s history as its deadly storms and favorite sons.
The Island city\'s ordinary citizens left their mark as well, often on their friends and neighbors.
But those now-infamous stories weren\'t the only ones to make headlines over the decades.
Their exploits are legendary.
Galveston, Texas, has a storied history marked by captains of industry and mafia bosses.
Those are just three of the violent crimes that rocked Galveston in one year: 1955.
An elderly man beats his granddaughter to death with a hammer because her childish singing annoys him.
A single mother murders her two young sons and hides their dismembered bodies in her refrigerator.
A runaway airman slaughters a family of three as they sleep in their beds
