More than six years after he went to jail for the murder of Jennifer Cave, a former University of Texas student and Carroll High School graduate, Colton Pitonyak's lawyers dropped a bombshell this ...

AUSTIN -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected an appeal by convicted murderer Colton Pitonyak, serving a 55-year sentence for a 2005 murder, according to KVUE's partners at the ...

AUSTIN -- Federal judges are deciding whether to grant a convicted killer a new trial. Colton Pitonyak's lawyers went before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday morning. The appeals hearing was ...

Should Travis County prosecutors have turned over to defense lawyers for Colton Pitonyak, convicted in 2007 of the gruesome murder of Jennifer Cave, evidence that another person claimed responsibility ...

On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Colton Pitonyak, convicted in 2007 of the murder of Jennifer Cave, should have the opportunity to argue that the state impermissibly ...

(CN) - Evidence against a University of Texas student convicted of murdering and dismembering his friend was too strong for the trial to have been affected by the late discovery of his accomplice's ...

Lawyers for Colton Pitonyak are again asking for a new trial after finding another person who says Laura Hall confessed to the gruesome 2005 West Campus murder of Jennifer Cave. Hall, 30, was found ...