- Early Murders and Bizarre Deaths in Kaufman County, 1860 - 1930
- James Monroe McReynolds Hung, Galveston Weekly News, 31 May 1864 and Houston Daily Telegraph 3 June 1864
- Moore in Canton, Dallas Weekly Herald, 26 February 1870
- Benjamin Camp, horse thief, Union, 10 April 1870
- "Be firm, men, and show them how you can die for your country", Union, 6 July 1870
- William Beard killed by Mr. Oldham, Times Piscayune (Louisiana), 30 May 1877
- Kaufman County Makes The News In New York City: Fatal Duel Between Ranchmen, New York Times, 13 Aug 1884
- Terrell Outlaw - John Heath, The Kaufman Sun, 1884
- A Battle with Winchesters, Dallas Morning News, 26 January 1886
- Judge Dillard, of Kaufman, Condemns the Convict System of Texas, and Suggests What Should be Done, Dallas Morning News, 22 February 1886
- Lum Bowles kills Bob Pemberton in a fight over a widow (also State vs. Willis Adams and State vs. Henry Shamberger), Dallas Morning News, 10 June 1886
- Dallas Morning News reports on Cases on trial July 1886
- Kaufman County Makes The News In New York City: Two Horse Thieves Shot, New York Times, 16 December 1886
- Kaufman County Makes The News In New York City: Lynched By A Mob, New York Times, 27 July 1887
- An Infant Killed, Dallas Morning News December 19, 1888
- Committed Twenty-one Years Ago, Dallas Morning News, 22 May 1891
- Baptist Minister Arrested, Dallas Morning News, 25 May 1891
- Five Shots were Fired, Dallas Morning News 5 Sep 1891
- Pony Reasonover, Terrell Times Star, 30 Dec 1892 (He shot and killed Dick Poston at Tolosa on Christmas Day) (also A. H. Everett found guilty of murdering J. E. Reason and Thomas Cranford acquitted of killing Frank Ward)
- The Murder of Judge Isaac Samuel Wood, November 29, 1893
- The Grim Harvest, Dallas Morning News 27 December 1893
- Cutting Scrape, Dallas Morning News 6 February 1894
- An Arrest Made For a Crime Eleven Years Old: W. F. Anderson in Dallas Jail Charged with Killing Kirk, Dallas Daily Times Herald, 17 Feb 1894
- Charles Shook, wanted for horse theft, shot by Posse, Dallas Times Herald, 18 January 1895
- Stabbed to Death (Jim Green dead and Harris Trollinger expected to die of his wounds), Dallas Morning News 13 June 1895
- Slaughter Died of His Wounds, Dallas Morning News, 22 May 1896
- Rowell Arrested, Dallas Morning News, 22 May 1896
- Judge W. H. Cariker charged with the murder of J. D. James, Dallas Morning News 3 June 1896
- Walter Moore Acquitted, Dallas Morning News 6 October 1897
- The Murder of Jim Peel, Dallas Morning News 2 February 1898
- Charged with Murder, Dallas Morning News 7 February 1898
- Kaufman County: J. R. Patterson Wanted, Dallas Morning News, 4 January 1899
- Two Years in the Pen., Dallas Morning News 23 February 1899
- Frank Johnson Acquitted, Dallas Morning News 26 February 1899
- Shrouded in Mystery, Dallas Morning News 12 November 1900
- Kaufman Court Cases, Dallas Morning News 29 September 1901
- Forney Much Wrought Up, Dallas Morning News, 9 September 1902
- Affray at Kaufman, Dallas Morning News 18 October 1903
- Celebrated Case, Dallas Morning News 25 April 1904
- Dead Body in Well, Dallas Morning News 2 October 1904
- Constable John Burke Murdered, Dallas Morning News, May 2, 1905
- Mendez Gets Life Sentence, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1905
- Another Kaufman County Native Hung As A Criminal: Berry Banks Burrell, The Daily Ardmoreite, 19 April 1909
- Two men are killed near town of Abbott, Mabank Banner, 18 Aug 1910
- Willie Record & Edna Dodson: The Story of Kaufman County's Romeo & Juliet, Mabank Banner, 24 July 1913
- Retired Minister, James Roberts, Murders his Wife, Mabank Banner,
10 Apr. 1929
- Old Kemp Calaboose - where Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie and Clyde) was once incarcerated
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