For years, the Pearland case sat in a dusty evidence room—a triple homicide so brutal and puzzling that veteran detectives still referred to it simply as "the house." Police officers secure the crime scene outside of the Pearland-area residence. On the morning of September 14, 2017, Pearland police officers responded to a welfare check at a modest two-story home near the city's western edge. A concerned employer reported that Mark Hollis, 42, had failed to show up for work fo