Fake Interpol Hit Man Arrested in Colorado
Tuesday January 31, 2006
David Race Bannon, who wrote a book claiming to be a former Interpol "hit man" and collects fees for speaking engagements and training courses based on that claim, has been ... Read More
Child Pornographer Faces 25 to 50 Years
Tuesday January 31, 2006
A 38-year-old Virginia man, who operated web sites featuring videos of underage boys engaging in explicit sexual conduct, has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual exploitation of minors and ... Read More
California Postal Worker Kills Five, Herself
Tuesday January 31, 2006
A female former postal worked entered the mail-sorting station at Goleta, California and opened fire on employees there, killing six and critically wounding another, before apparently turning the gun on ... Read More
Atlanta Courthouse Shooting Trial to Be Moved?
Tuesday January 31, 2006
Attorneys for Brian Nichols, who was on trial for rape at the Fulton County Courthouse when he overpowered a deputy and shot four people during his effort to escape, have ... Read More
Ward Weaver Case Was Challenge for FBI Investigators
Monday January 30, 2006
Shortly after Ashley Pond, 12, and Miranda Gaddis, 13, disappeared from their Oregon City apartment complex, Ward Weaver III was a prime suspect in the investigation, but it took the ... Read More
Mom's Notes May Explain 3 Children's Deaths
Sunday January 29, 2006
Authorities said notes left inside the home of Paula Eleazar Mendez, 43, may explain why she took the life of her three young children and tried to kill herself by ... Read More
Sex Offender Duncan Blogging from Jail?
Friday January 27, 2006
Joseph Edward Duncan III, the registered sex offender accused of killing three people at their Coeur d'Alene, Idaho home so that he could kidnap two children, is blogging again, by ... Read More
Prosecutors to Get Phil Spector's Deposition
Friday January 27, 2006
Prosecutors in the murder case of music producer Phil Spector, accused of shooting to death former actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003, will be able to view parts ... Read More
Sleaze TV: Amy and Buttafoucos to Reunite
Thursday January 26, 2006
Reality television is about to hit a new low. Remember Joey, Mary Jo, and Amy? Buttafuoco and Fisher? Well in case the names do not jog your memory, don't ... Read More
Supreme Court to Hear Lethal Injection Case
Thursday January 26, 2006
After granting a last-minute stay of the execution of Florida death row inmate Clarence Hill, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear his appeal based on the argument that the ... Read More
Teen Pleads Not Guilty to Double Murders
Thursday January 26, 2006
David Ludwig, the Pennsylvania 18-year-old accused of shooting his girlfriend's parents then fleeing with the 16-year-old girl, has entered a plea of not guilty to criminal homicide.
Ludwig is charged with ... Read More
Fetus Kidnapping Trial Delayed Until October
Wednesday January 25, 2006
The trial of the woman accused of killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the unborn baby from her womb in December 2004 has been rescheduled until October to give defense ... Read More
Clarence Hill Gets Last-Minute Execution Delay
Wednesday January 25, 2006
A Florida death row inmate who claims the chemicals that the state uses for execution causes pain, therefore making the process "cruel and unusual" punishment, was granted a delay in ... Read More
Flashback: Leslie Van Houten
Tuesday January 24, 2006
At age 19, self-proclaimed Manson family member, Leslie Van Houten, took part in the 1969 brutal murders of Leon and Rosemary LaBianca. Some believe if any of the Manson family ... Read More
Dr. Cyril Wecht, Celebrity Coroner, Indicted
Monday January 23, 2006
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a Pennsylvania medical examiner who often appears as a consultant on television networks and who consulted on the autopsies of Elvis Presley and JonBenet Ramsey, has been ... Read More
Carlie Brucia's Mom Arrested Again
Sunday January 22, 2006
The mother of Carlie Brucia has been arrested for possession of cocaine and facilitating prostitution after the exposed her to an undercover policeman and a later searched turned up a ... Read More
City to Pay Legal Cost in Notorious B.I.G. Case
Sunday January 22, 2006
The family of murdered rap artist Notorious B.I.G. will received $1.1 million in legal costs from the City of Los Angeles, because a judge ruled the city intentionally withheld evidence ... Read More
Grandmother Arrested in Scalding Death
Friday January 20, 2006
A grandmother who ignored court orders and allowed her three-year-old grandson to spend Christmas with his mother, has been arrested again and charged with first-degree murder, instead of manslaughter, in ... Read More
Deadbeat Dad Arrested After 27 Years
Thursday January 19, 2006
A South Carolina man who faked his own death 27 years ago to get out of paying child support has been arrested and now faces more than $30,000 in back ... Read More
Leif Garrett Busted for Heroin Possession
Thursday January 19, 2006
Leif Garrett, who was a singing "teen idol" in the 1970s, was arrested for trying to ride a Los Angeles subway without buying a ticket and was found to be ... Read More
Fawley Charged With Taylor Behl's Murder
Wednesday January 18, 2006
Benjamin Fawley, a 38-year-old amateur photographer who has been held in jail since September 2005 on 16 counts of child pornography charges, has been indicted for first-degree murder in the ... Read More
Lawyer: Unborn-Baby Thief Is Insane
Wednesday January 18, 2006
Attorneys for Peggy Jo Conner, who is accused of beating her pregnant neighbor with a baseball and trying to cut her unborn baby from her womb, plan to seek an ... Read More
Duncan's Lawyers to Challenge Idaho Law
Wednesday January 18, 2006
Lawyers for registered sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III, charged with killing three people so that he could kidnap two children, filed motions to challenge the Idaho law which prevents ... Read More
Police Hunt Two Dangerous Jail Escapees
Tuesday January 17, 2006
Police are hunting for two dangerous jail inmates who stabbed a guard 15 times with a makeshift knife and escaped from the overcrowded Russell County Jail in Phenix City, ... Read More
Sniper Wants Separate Trials for Six Murders
Tuesday January 17, 2006
Attorneys for Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad wants a judge to order six separate trials for each of the six murders he is charged with in Maryland because trying him ... Read More
Court Upholds Michael Skakel's Murder Conviction
Monday January 16, 2006
The Connecticut Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold the conviction of Michael Skakel for the 1975 murder of his Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley, who was beaten to death with a ... Read More
'Lost' Actress 'Sorry' for Drunken Driving
Monday January 16, 2006
Cynthia Watros, the actress who plays Libby on the television show "Lost," pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Hawaii, where the show is filmed, and told the court she was ... Read More
Woman Stabs Father Over Television Program
Monday January 16, 2006
Police say that a 45-year-old Ohio woman, who wanted to watch a football game on television, stabbed her 69-year-old father to death because he wanted to watch a movie instead.
Police ... Read More
Sago Mining Email Is a Rip-Off, FBI Says
Sunday January 15, 2006
An email circulating on the Internet, which appears to be from a physician at the hospital where the lone survivor of the Sago, West Viriginia mining disaster is being treated, ... Read More
Court Okays Jeffrey MacDonald's 4th Appeal
Sunday January 15, 2006
Former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald may get a fourth trial for the 1970 murders of his wife and two children after a federal appeals court ruled that his attorneys ... Read More
DNA Clears Florida Man of 1981 Rape, Robbery
Sunday January 15, 2006
A Florida man, who was given a 130-year sentence and who has spent half of his life in prison, will be set free after DNA tests and other evidence cleared ... Read More
'No Fair Jury' Claimed in Dru Sjodin Case
Saturday January 14, 2006
Attorneys for the man accused of the kidnapping and murder of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin have filed motions in federal court claiming it will not be possible ... Read More
Susan Polk Wants to Fire Horowitz
Saturday January 14, 2006
The woman whose murder trial was declared a mistrial when her attorney's wife was found killed in their home in October has asked the judge to let her represent herself ... Read More
Shasta Groene May Have to Testify
Friday January 13, 2006
Nine-year-old Shasta Groene, the only survivor of a murder-kidnapping plot that left four people dead in Idaho, may testify against the man accused of the crimes, but prosecutors want ... Read More
DNA Tests Confirms Roger Coleman's Guilt
Thursday January 12, 2006
DNA testing of a man executed in 1992 ordered by Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner has confirmed that Roger Coleman was not only guilty of the murder and rape of ... Read More
EquuSearch Team to Return to Aruba
Thursday January 12, 2006
EquuSearch founder Tim Miller says he and a team of divers from Florida will return to Aruba to follow up on information they received from investigators in the disappearance ... Read More
Judge Frees Man Accused of Killing Family
Thursday January 12, 2006
Indiana Judge Frederick R. Spencer shocked prosecutors when he ordered a man accused of killing his wife and son freed from jail because he had been held too long without ... Read More
Brooke Wilberger a Victim of a Serial Killer?
Thursday January 12, 2006
Brooke Wilberger, the 19-year-old Brigham Young University freshman who disappeared while visiting her sister in Oregon and has never been found, may have been the victim of a serial ... Read More
Marines Discharge Vietnam-Era Deserter, 65
Thursday January 12, 2006
The 65-year-old Florida man who was arrested for deserting from the Marine Corps in 1965 rather than go to Vietnam, has been released from custody and will not face court ... Read More
Court Ruling May Help Find Erica Baker
Wednesday January 11, 2006
After losing a federal court appeal, a former public defender has decided to testify about what a deceased former client may have told her about the disappearance in 1999 ... Read More
Rapist Who Left Daughter For Dead Sentenced
Wednesday January 11, 2006
John Rollins Tuggle, the convicted sex offender who raped and stabbed his 12-year-old daughter and left her for dead at a remote campsite in Idaho, has been sentenced ... Read More
Ferry Pilot Sentenced to 18 Months
Wednesday January 11, 2006
The pilot of a Staten Island ferry, who hid his high blood pressure problem and prescription for painkillers and was at the helm in 2003 when a collision with a ... Read More
New Jersey Votes to Suspend Death Penalty
Tuesday January 10, 2006
The New Jersey Assembly has voted to suspend executions in the state until a 13-member task force has the opportunity to determine whether the death penalty is fairly imposed and ... Read More
Don't e-Annoy Me, It's a Federal Crime!
Tuesday January 10, 2006
I know I feel more secure now. The U.S. Congress passed, and President Bush signed, a law that makes it a federal crime to post messages on the Internet that ... Read More
Legal Problems Mount for Marcus Vick
Tuesday January 10, 2006
It's been a bad week for Marcus Vick. The brother of Atlanta Falcons Quarterback Michael Vick was kicked off the Virginia Tech football squad for unsportsmanlike conduct during the ... Read More
Andrea Yates Enters 'Not Guilty' Plea Again
Monday January 9, 2006
The Houston woman who admitted drowning her five children in 2001, has once again entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and is scheduled to stand ... Read More
Virginia Killing Spree Investigation Widens
Monday January 9, 2006
Two men arrested in Philadelphia for the slaughter of two families in their Richmond, Virginia homes may have been involved in other similar crimes, according to law enforcement officials who ... Read More
Crime Game: Famous Female Criminals
Sunday January 8, 2006
Here is another fun game using an online version of the old Hangman game with the names of some of the most famous female criminals in history. How fast can ... Read More
Virginia to Retest Executed Man's DNA
Friday January 6, 2006
Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner has authorized the DNA evidence testing in the case of Roger Keith Coleman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of his sister-in-law in ... Read More
Vietnam-Era Marine Corps Deserter Arrested
Thursday January 5, 2006
A Vietnam-era Marine Corps deserter, who spent the last 40 years selling boats and classic cars, has been arrested in Tarpon Springs, Florida and returned to Camp Lejeune to face ... Read More
Woman Who Helped Miami Escapee Arrested
Wednesday January 4, 2006
Miami-Dade police have arrested a 45-year-old woman who admitted to helping Reynaldo E. Rapalo, the accused "Shenandoah Rapist," after he escaped from jail Dec. 20. She has been charged ... Read More
Hearing Postponed for Killer Nurse
Tuesday January 3, 2006
A sentencing hearing for admitted serial killer nurse Charles Cullen has been postponed to allow prosecutors in two New Jersey counties determine if there are more victims in their ... Read More
Mom Charged With Scalding 3-Year-Old to Death
Tuesday January 3, 2006
A 30-year-old Florida woman has been charged with murder for putting her three-year-old son into a tub of scalding water to punish him on Christmas Day, and his 51-year-old grandmother ... Read More
Boxer Thomas Hearns Charged With Hitting Son
Tuesday January 3, 2006
Former world boxing champion Thomas Hearns was released on $10,000 bond after being charged with assault and battery during a domestic dispute that left his 13-year-old son with a black ... Read More
Maurice Clarett Surrenders to Police
Tuesday January 3, 2006
Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett surrendered to police on charges of robbing two people with a gun behind a bar -- a robbery that was apparently interrupted when ... Read More
Woman Driver Hits Cop, Gets DWI
Tuesday January 3, 2006
The New Year got off to a shakey start for a Queens, New York woman who drove
up to a sobriety checkpoint, sideswiped one car, hit a police officer,
and rear-ended ... Read More
Victims' Families to Confront Killer Nurse
Monday January 2, 2006
For the first time, families of the victims of serial killer nurse Charles Cullen, who claims to have killed as many as 40 people in 10 different hospitals in New ... Read More
John Hinckley Granted Overnight Visits
Sunday January 1, 2006
John Hinckley Jr., who has been confined to a mental hospital since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity of shooting President Ronald Reagan in 1981, will be ... Read More
DUI Checkpoint Nabs 1978 Murder Suspect
Sunday January 1, 2006
A man wanted in a 1978 Chicago murder was captured in California at a routine sobriety checkpoint. Francisco Sandoval, who had been using the name Leonel Sanchez Valencia, was identified ... Read More
14-Year-Old Charged as Adult in Murder
Sunday January 1, 2006
A 14-year-old Florida middle school student who is accused of following a 56-year-old woman home from the supermarket, trying to rob her and then shooting her to death when she ... Read More