KYLE — Following a special meeting where Mayor Travis Mitchell and District 2 city council member Robert Rizo were sworn in, Kyle City Council approved new names for the victims unit at the Public Safety Center on Nov. 14. Samantha Dean was 29 when she was found shot to death in Bastrop in 2015. As ...

By Megan Wehring  Freddie Lee Smith, 38, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole resulting from a 2015 murder-for-hire plot of a 29-year-old woman and her unborn child. Freddie Lee Smith Former Austin police officer VonTrey Clark hired Smith to kill Samantha Dean, who wa...

A jury trial for the man suspected of killing Kyle Police Department Victim Services Coordinator Samantha Dean and her unborn child in 2015 has now been reset for 2019.  Samantha Dean as Kyle Police Department's Victim Services Coordinator in 2014. (file photo) Former Austin Police Officer Vontrey C...

What’s that smell? Some Buda residents can commiserate when they hear someone say, “What’s that smell?”  But according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the Texas Lehigh Cement Factory has complied with all air quality standards set forth by the EPA.  TCEQ, which monitors air ...

Staff report    A former Austin Police Department officer suspected of murdering Kyle Victim Services Coordinator Samantha Dean in February pled not guilty to a charge of capital murder on Nov. 19.  According to a report from the Austin American-Statesman, VonTrey Jamal Clark, 32, who was indicted o...

  Staff Report   A former Austin Police Department officer, along with one other man, have been charged with capital murder in the death of Kyle Victim Services Coordinator Samantha Dean and her unborn child in February.   In a press conference Thursday, the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office announced...

  Staff Report The man who is in the center of the Samantha Dean murder investigation offered $5,000 to end the Kyle Victim Service Coordinator’s life, this according to a search warrant made public Wednesday. According to a report from the Austin American-Statesman, former Austin Police Officer Von...

Staff report Indonesian authorities have reportedly captured a former Austin Police officer suspected in the murder of Kyle Victim Services coordinator Samantha Dean two weeks after he fled to the island nation.  According to a report from the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday, Indonesian officials ...

The Austin Police Department (APD) today terminated VonTrey Clark, who is suspected in the murder of Samantha Dean, the former Kyle Police Department victims service coordinator who was found dead in Bastrop in February. She was seven months pregnant at the time. Clark, 32, was fired for withholding...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Details in the murder of Samantha Dean continue to seep out of the investigation, building what appears to be a connection between her death and the alleged father of her unborn child, Austin police officer VonTrey Clark. Autopsy details show Dean, who was a Kyle Police Department ...