Scott Estes also told jurors he overheard Zeigler at work speaking angrily to his wife on the phone, and that he saw Trenor act depressed during a company picnic that occurred after Riley's death ...

GALVESTON, Texas — A couple accused of beating the woman's 2-year-old daughter to death and dumping the body out to sea wrote suicide notes expressing remorse, witnesses in the woman's capital ...

Nellie Zeigler says her son was too kind to have killed his stepdaughter. Suspect tears up as mom testifies at Baby Grace trial Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Kimberly Trenor's defense is trying to convince a jury that her daughter's death was a discipline lesson that spun out of control. Prosecutors say Trenor and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II ...

Zeigler didn't believe Trenor was doing it, however, because the 2-year-old's behavior wasn't changing. The fatal beating happened after Zeigler stayed home from work to make sure his wife was ...

Trenor and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II are accused of beating to death the toddler in July 2007 and hiding the body for a month or two in a storage shed at their home in Spring, a northern ...

Capital murder charges were swiftly handed down last week to the parents of the 2-year-old murder victim Riley Ann Sawyers, known as Baby Grace. A grand jury in Galveston County took only three ...

A couple accused of beating their toddler to death, tucking her body in a plastic box and dumping it in Galveston Bay were indicted Wednesday on charges of capital murder.

A woman accused in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter, widely known as "Baby Grace," has pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence but innocent of capital murder charges a day before her ...

GALVESTON -- A mother was convicted Monday of capital murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter during a daylong discipline session in which the toddler was whipped with belts and ...

A mother accused of brutally beating her 2-year-old daughter to death and then dumping her in Galveston Bay faces life without parole if convicted of capital murder in the "Baby Grace" case. Jury ...

Kimberly Trenor's defense is trying to convince a jury that her daughter's death was a discipline lesson that spun out of control. Prosecutors say Trenor and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II ...