A bankruptcy court judge has agreed to turn over audio tapes of conversations between Manson Family member Charles 'Tex' Watson and his former attorney to the Los Angeles Police Department. The tape recordings are part of the estate of deceased attorney Bill Boyd whose law firm is in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.

The LAPD requested the tapes to determine if Watson may have discussed any unsolved murders during his conversations with Boyd. Read More...

An Arizona woman has been convicted of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference in connection with the Baby Gabriel case. Tammi Smith, who wanted to adopt the child, can face up to 3.75 years each for her felony convictions.

Elizabeth Johnson (pictured), the baby's mother, is being held without bond on kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference charges stemming from the baby's December 2009 disappearance. Read More...

Last week at a Las Vegas jail 70 non-violent inmates were released early because too many jail employees called in sick. This forced the already financially strained city to pay overtime to workers who covered the vacant shifts.

"We can't afford that from a monetary standpoint, and from a people standpoint we just couldn't cover it," said Tim Bedwell, a North Las Vegas police spokesperson. "The only reasonable solution we have is to close a wing."

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New York Police Department investigators have arrested a New Jersey man in connection with the disappearance of a 6-year-old boy who became the first missing child ever pictured on a milk carton. Pedro Hernadez has been charged for the murder of Etan Patz from a city street in 1979.

Police said Hernadez confessed to strangling the boy and putting his body in the trash. Read More...