Colton Pitonyak is serving a 55-year prison sentence for murder in the death of Jennifer Cave, whose body was found mutilated in his West Campus apartment in the late summer of 2005. In his trial, one ...

Lawyers for Colton Pitonyak claim in his latest appeal that it was Laura Ashley Hall and not Pitonyak who killed 21-year-old Jennifer Cave in 2005, a theory that Travis County prosecutors roundly ...

Turn on your TV right now if you want to see live coverage of the trial of one of Austin's most gruesome murders in recent memory. Not surprisingly, given the horrific nature of the killing of UT ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because criminal evidence was illegally obtained by the family of murder victim Jennifer Cave, Colton Pitonyak's conviction should be tossed out – along with the tainted evidence – and the 24-year-old ...