One year ago, at about five a.m. on Easter Sunday, a 26,000-pound bus crashed at high speed into a wedge-shaped traffic barrier near the intersection of Loop 610 and Highway 59, in the Houston suburb of Bellaire. On impact, the driver was hurled headfirst through the exploding windshield toward the crushed barrier and concrete pavement. Remarkably, he sustained no open head wounds or skull fractures—he suffered what trauma experts call a closed-head injury—but he arrived at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in a coma. A Hispanic man who appeared to be in his mid-forties, he had no identifying paperwork, so the hospital staff gave him a generic name: Julio 1288. Doctors and nurses moved quickly to stanch his bleeding and thread a breathing tube into his…The post Cold Case appeared first on Texas Monthly.