Mike Hixenbaugh

4 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Mike Hixenbaugh

A decade ago, the Salvation Army fired a talented young music director after discovering that he’d sent graphic sexual messages to a child — only for another branch of the ministry to hire him a year later to lead youth camps in a different part of the country, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky. Those camps are where the music director, Joel Collier, met then-14-year-old Riley Neville in 2017.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Mike Hixenbaugh |Antonia Hylton

The indictment of former megachurch pastor Robert Morris on child sex abuse charges this week was made possible by an accuser who refused to quit, a novel legal theory and an archaic section of state criminal code that dates to Oklahoma’s origins on the wild frontier. Morris, a leading national figure in the American evangelical movement and the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was charged Wednesday with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mike Hixenbaugh

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Texas state regulators are investigating a medical school’s failure to notify surviving family members before cutting up and leasing out the bodies of their loved ones. The Texas Funeral Service Commission notified the University of North Texas Health Science Center on Oct.

1 month ago | telemundodallas.com | Mike Hixenbaugh

Este artículo forma parte de "Dealing the Dead", una serie que investiga el uso de cadáveres no reclamados para la investigación médica. Los organismos reguladores del estado de Texas están investigando el hecho de que una facultad de medicina no haya avisado a los familiares supervivientes antes de descuartizar y alquilar los cadáveres de sus seres queridos.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe |Mike Hixenbaugh

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor and vulnerable moved this week to ban the practice, introducing a bill that would make it illegal in the state to perform medical research on a corpse without explicit consent.