Crime & Real Estate

Four United Development Fund Execs Charged by Feds For Alleged Years-Long Ponzi Scheme

By Candy Evans / October 25, 2021 /

Two of the Indicted are Highland Park Residents Kyle Bass Takes to Twitter For Vindication Prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas have taken definitive action against four executives with United Development Funding, the Grapevine-based real estate investment trust the FBI raided in February of 2016. Two of the four are Highland Park residents who…

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Real Estate Scion Convicted of Murder: Dallasites Recall Robert Durst And His Stint in The Centrum

By Candy Evans / September 29, 2021 /

A Los Angeles jury found New York City real estate scion Robert Durst guilty of the murder of his best friend, Susan Berman. It was the final chapter in a 20-year-old case that still remains a bit of a mystery. Berman was set to talk to investigators in 2000 about another mystery, the disappearance of…

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Two More Teens Charged in Murder of Leslie Squair Baker, Ages 18 and 19

By Candy Evans / June 16, 2020 /

Two more suspects, both young men, have been have arrested in the Memorial Day murder of Preston Royal resident Leslie Squair Baker while she was parked in the driveway of her home. Police are saying the incident was an apparent carjacking. The assailants fired at Baker as she told a friend on the phone, “I’m…

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Dallas Police Brief Preston Royal on the Memorial Day Murder of Leslie Baker

By Candy Evans / June 10, 2020 /

“How I Am Going to Keep My Wife Safe?” Last Thursday evening, District 11 Councilmember Lee Kleinman, District 13 Councilwoman Jennifer Gates, and representatives from the Dallas Police department held a virtual call-in community meeting to discuss the Memorial Day murder of Preston Royal resident Leslie Baker. The hour-long meeting had originally been planned for…

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Districts 11, 13 Host Case Update Call on Leslie Squair Baker Murder June 5

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2020 /

Districts 11 & 13 to host conference call regarding killing of Leslie Squair Baker on June 5

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