The Northwest Texas City of Lubbock is

The Northwest Texas City of Lubbock is probably best known to most as the home of Texas Tech University or the birthplace

and stomping grounds of the great buddy Holly.

But the city, like all others, has a darker side, unknown or purposely ignored for comfort.

There are unspeakable acts of violence everywhere, but Lubbock is certainly home to a handful of unsolved murders, the brutality of which seem

unhuman and nightmarish.

The 1975 slang of newlywed Debbie Sue Williamson died in her carport after sustaining 17 stab wounds.

Lubbock police later took the bait that Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell was floating in front of jurisdictions around the entire United States and charged serial confessor Henry Lee Lucas with Debbie's murder. It wasn't Lucas who killed her, however, and the case remains unsolved.

Few crimes are as appalling and devastating in their revelations of the depravity of mankind,

as the 2004 murders of Tammy Cooper and her children,

9-year-old twin boys, Kedise and Kachim, and 11-year-old twin boys, Cadiz and Cachim, an 11-year-old girl mahogany.

They were all stabbed and beaten to death.

The Lubbock crime was nothing short of a massacre. The slang of this entire family too remains unsolved, as does the horrifying and senseless

2000 killing of 19-year-old Texas Tech University student Stephanie Hill. Oh, Stephanie Joy Hill was the oldest of four daughters born to Karen and Terry Hill.

She came into the world in Monaghan's Texas on August 15, 1980.

Monaghan's a small town of around 6,500 is about 35 miles southwest of Odessa, where

the Hill family moved in 1996, what should have been Stephanie's junior year of high school.

Stephanie, however, was advanced academically, and when she entered Odessa's Permian High she did so as a senior.

It wasn't a surprise to Stephanie's family or past and present teachers that the teenager

would go on to graduate at only 16 years old.

She was in the top 30 of her graduating class, the class of 1997. The short time Stephanie spent at Permian High School before graduating was

eventful as far as extracurricular activities. She excelled at tennis there and at competitive choir as well.

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