21 Years Ago Today: Eyeball Killer Strikes Again!

Twenty-one years ago today, on March 18, 1991, Dallas prostitute Shirley Williams was found naked near a school, with facial bruising, a broken nose, gunshot wounds to her head and face, and both her eyes removed.

Four days later, police arrested 47-year-old Charles Frederick Albright -- who would become known as “the Dallas Ripper,” “the Dallas Slasher,” and “the Eyeball Killer” -- and charged him with that and 11 other murders. His trial began on December 13, 1991, and, five days later, he was convicted on a combination of circumstantial and forensic evidence and was given eight life sentences. He is currently confined in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Bill Clements unit in Amarillo.

Albright is one of the monsters covered in "Texas Ser-y'all Killers," one of the chapters in the "Murder" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State!