Thirty years later, Charles Whitman is a notch on a timeline of violence. Pain and loss quietly take the back seat to curiosity and even tastelessness as Whitman bubbles up in pop culture. Here are ...

The heavyset man holding a rifle seemed to know what he was doing. Dressed like many detectives did in 1966 — with pocket liner in his shirt — he suggested to Officer Ramiro Martinez that they climb ...

In November 2001, David Gunby died of lifelong kidney disease in a Fort Worth, Texas hospital. Gunby, 58, became the 17th murder victim of Charles J. Whitman, the monster who put shooting massacres on ...

About 50 years ago this past week — on Aug. 1, 1966 — Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine and engineering student, climbed to the observation deck of the Tower at the University of Texas in ...

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Last August, with little fanfare, the University of Texas marked the 40th anniversary of what then was the nation's worst mass shooting. Until Monday's carnage at Virginia Tech, ...

Charles Whitman liked to keep lists, neat little reminders of ways to better himself. In the Marine Corps it was: "Think -- don't be so ready with an excuse." "Organize yourself and your work." " ...

On Aug. 1, 1966, shots rang out on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin. Charles Whitman, known as the “Texas Tower Sniper,” was a former Marine sharpshooter. He had climbed up to the clock ...

Jo Scott-Coe talks about her book, “Unheard Witness,” which tells the story of the life and death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, who was the wife of the man who carried out the 1966 mass shooting from the ...