Convicted El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood is scheduled to be executed in March — nearly 40 years after he was accused of murdering young women and dumping their bodies in a Northeast desert.

David Leonard Wood’s case was halted and remanded back to trial court in July after being granted a stay in March. He’s accused of killing and burying six girls near El Paso in 1992.

LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades when no DNA evidence links him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso.

On March 13, Texas is set to execute David Wood for a series of killings that occurred in 1987. The case was full of tragedy but devoid of reliable forensic evidence. DNA evidence suggests Wood may ...

On March 13, 1988, David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," denied killing nine El Paso-area victims, saying, “I will make these people kill me before these people ever make me say something ...