People are getting away with murder
Police in the Houston region reported 2,750 homicides from 2004 to 2009. Of those cases, 850 have yet to be solved
Aug. 22, 2010
By YANG WANG
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The cold-blooded killers who robbed a Galveston convenience store and killed a customer three years ago are still at large.
So is the rapist who killed a woman in 2007 in Crystal Beach. And the culprit who strangled a 42-year-old homeless man outside a strip center in South Houston.
The slayings are among hundreds in the greater Houston area and surrounding counties over the last six years that remain unsolved.
Some Houston-area communities are among 120 cities and counties across the state where 63 percent of murders or fewer are solved - falling short of the national average - according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting database. The findings are based on cases reported by local agencies from 2004 through 2009.
