Matt Keyser

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Freelance Journalist, Freelance

Houston

Crime and Justice, Health, Sports, U.S. Regional

As seen in: The Washington Post, KING-TV (Seattle, WA), KHOU-TV (Houston, TX), WXIA-TV (Atlanta, GA), WFAA-TV (Dallas, TX), WUSA-TV (Washington, DC), KARE-TV (Minneapolis, MN), KGW-TV (Portland, OR), KUSA-TV (Denver, CO), WCSH-TV (Portland, ME) and

Covers: Longform: features, investigations, sports.

Senior writer, @the50athlete • Amateur cook • Wannabe long-distance runner

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The wrongful conviction of Lydell Grant

The police, district attorney, and judge all agree he's innocent. Why is Lydell Grant still a convicted murde…

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Transparency

A four-month investigation reveals Houston's $8 million police body-camera program is falling short of its pr…

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She was convicted of murdering her husband. Did she do it?

Sandra Melgar is serving 27 years in prison for brutally stabbing her husband the night they celebrated their…

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I was terrified to be a dad. Then I heard my baby girl cry for the first time.

She changed my life in the best ways.

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Forgotten Children

Texas leads the nation in hot car deaths with more than 110 cases since 1990. Why do adults keep forgetting k…

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Eye of the Tiger

Thomas W. Blake, a Houston millionaire, envisioned bringing an Augusta National-like golf course to Texas. Th…

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The Crawfish Farmers

Getting crawfish from pond to table means waking before the morning sun and hours of long, monotonous work.

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Eye of the storm: Remembering Hurricane Ike

It's been seven years since Hurricane Ike ravaged the Galveston coast: sweeping away homes, leveling building…

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Sign here, please

For more than 20 years, CJ and D.E. Chester have collected autographs from golf’s biggest names—Tiger Woods, …

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Defying Gravity

Brenham High School pole vaulter Garrett Larson has one goal before graduation: Become the best vaulter in sc…

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The Miracle Man

Burton catcher Christopher Langley returns to the diamond just months after life-threatening car crash.

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THE CHAMP!

State title is the culmination of a long road for Will Antkowiak.

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