Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood. Wood ... beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022, the Texas ...

The highest court in Texas on ... A jury convicted Wood of killing six women and girls in 1987 in a case dubbed by local media as the Desert Killer. The victims are: 14-year-old Dawn Marie Smith ...

David Leonard Wood was a 33-year-old ex-convict living in Northeast El ... Aug. 12 – Maria Casio, 24, of Addison, Texas, visiting in El Paso, disappears. Aug. 13 – Casio’s car is found ...

David Leonard Wood was a 33-year-old ex-convict living in Northeast El ... and the ruling was upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.