Update: On March 11, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed David Wood’s execution. The court has not yet announced whether it will send the case back to the trial court to review the evidence of Wood’s ...

Convicted El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood is scheduled to be executed in March — nearly 40 years after he was accused of murdering young women and dumping their bodies in a Northeast desert.

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Botched crime scenes, circumstantial evidence, and false testimony - David Leonard Wood claims that all were used to convict him of the murder of six women ...

On March 13, 1988, David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," denied killing nine El Paso-area victims, saying, “I will make these people kill me before these people ever make me say something ...

EL PASO -- The man convicted nearly 17 years ago of murdering six girls and young women, then burying their bodies in the desert, is scheduled to die Aug. 20 in Huntsville, Texas. David Leonard Wood, ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent hourlong ...