Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog

Georgia prosecutors have agreed to allow DNA testing of dog hair which was used in the 1982 trial of Wayne Williams, who was convicted of the murders of two young black ... Read More

A jury took less than two hours to find a former University of Texas student guilty of killing 21-year-old Jennifer Cave in his apartment and dismembering her body. The same jury ... Read More

A man prosecutors believe molested hundreds of young boys in eight U.S. states, Mexico and Brazil since the 1960s, has been sentenced to 152 years in prison for molesting two 12-year-old ... Read More

A cheerleader coach has been charged, two national guardsmen have been suspended, the high school principal has been arrested and a school board member has resigned in the aftermath ... Read More

From everything that has been reported in the media, it seems that the accuser in the Luke lacrosse team case has changed her story every time that ... Read More

James Timothy Buchanan of Panama City, Florida was cleaver enough to use multiple IDs to obtain prescription pain pills, but he wins a spot in the stupid criminal category ... Read More

A 55-year-old Philadelphia man has confessed and pleaded guilty to homicide in the 1987 death of a teenage girl. The case gained attention because it was one of the ... Read More

A former sheriff's deputy and a reputed member of the Ku Klux Klan has been arrested on federal charges in one of the unsolved crimes of the civil rights ... Read More

The former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team case has now been accused by the North Carolina state bar of more serious ethic charges, including withholding evidence from the defense, ... Read More

The man charged with kidnapping Dylan and Shasta Groene and killing Dylan has confessed to the murders of three other children in Washington State and California. The confession was revealed in ... Read More

A man convicted of a 1985 rape in Georgia, a man convicted of a 1991 murder in New York and a man convicted of raping a 12-year-old boy in Texas in ... Read More

An Indiana mother and her four children were found safe in a motel about six miles from the home from which they were abducted three days earlier. Arrested on ... Read More

Death rates for state prison inmates, especially blacks, are lower in prison on average than they are for people on the outside, according to a new report from the Bureau ... Read More

Jury selection is expected to begin today in the case of a 22-year-old University of Texas student who was found shot, stabbed and dismembered in the apartment bathroom of ... Read More

Park City, Kansas, authorities announced this week that they will prosecute anyone who tries to take pieces of a house once owned by Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer. ... Read More

An Amber Alert has been issued for four Indiana children who were taken along with their mother by a gunman police say held several people hostage for about nine ... Read More

Thieves thought they had a great idea when the stole 14 cell phones that were stored at the Town of Babylon, New York, public works garage and planned to ... Read More

Joseph Edward Duncan III, who pleaded guilty in state court to the murder of three members of an Idaho family, has now been indicted in federal court for the ... Read More

Phil Spector, a musical producing genius who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, also had a gun-waving dark side that struck fear into those who were ... Read More

More than four years after actress Lana Clarkson was found shot to death in his Hollywood mansion, Phil Spector will finally go on trial for her murder in March. Superior Court ... Read More

A man believed to be the "Baseline Killer" of Phoenix has been indicted on 74 felony charges, including nine counts of first-degree murder. Mark Goudeau was also charged with 15 counts ... Read More

Why did Shawn Hornbeck, found with Ben Ownby in the apartment of Michael J. Devlin, stay with his abductor for all those years when he had so many opportunities to escape? Was ... Read More

A 37-year-old North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with the death of his four-year-old daughter, whose decapitated body was found by her mother Friday evening in their ... Read More

The mother of one of the Duke University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper hired to dance at a team party says district attorney Mike Nifong "picked on the ... Read More

One day after it was revealed that the accuser in the Duke lacrosse team case changed her story once again, Durham district attorney Mike Nifong asked the state attorney general to ... Read More

The investigation into the disappearance of a 13-year-old Missouri boy who was last seen four days ago after getting off the school bus, has resulted in the discovery of ... Read More

A Tennessee teacher already serving eight years in prison for having sex with one of her students, had two more years added to her sentence after pleading guilty to ... Read More

I refuse to refer to Brian Nichols as the "alleged" Atlanta courthouse killer, as if there is some doubt about the identity of the defendant, on trial for rape, who overwhelmed ... Read More

A South Carolina judge ordered convicted sex offender Jerry Buck Inman to give fingerprints and DNA samples to investigators in the case of a Clemson University student who was ... Read More

A Florida judge has thrown out more statements made to law enforcement officers by John Evander Couey, the convicted sex offender accused in the kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. Jurors ... Read More

Joey Buttafuoco, former boyfriend of Amy Fisher of Long Island Lolita fame, turned himself in to begin a one-year jail term for illegal possession of ammunition. He had originally be scheduled ... Read More

The Duke lacrosse team case is still with us, although there are signs it may be finally giving up the ghost. Although rape charges against the three Duke players were dropped ... Read More

Two men have been arrested without incident at a Nashville hotel in connection with the shooting death of a Tennessee state trooper during a routine traffic stop north of ... Read More

Police say a million-dollar mansion located in one of most exclusive neighborhoods of the southeast was the headquarters for an elaborate twist on the world's oldest profession. Investigators believe ... Read More

George "Jug" Twitty has filed divorce papers in Alabama two weeks after he separated from Beth Twitty, mother of Natalee Holloway who disappeared in Aruba in May 2005. The ... Read More

Death sentences fell to a 30-year low in the U.S. in 2006 and for the first time in 20 years a majority of Americans say they favor alternative sentencing over the ... Read More

An Arizona prosecutor plans to seek prison time for former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson, who was arrested in Phoenix last weekend for possession of cocaine and driving under ... Read More

Domestic violence in the United States declined significantly from 1993 to 2004, with nonfatal incidents dropping more than 50 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Nonfatal ... Read More

Police are looking for motives and clues in drive-by shooting outside a nightclub that left Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams dead just hours after the team was eliminated from the ... Read More

Preliminary data released by the FBI indicate that violent crime for January through June 2006 was up 3.7 percent when compared to its reported level for the first half ... Read More

A "cold hit" match of DNA collected from a convicted sexual offender has helped California authorities make an arrest in the 1977 rape and murder of 17-year-old Mary Ann Quigley. ... Read More

What does a carjacker do when he steals a vehicle then gets lost driving it around? Why call 9-1-1 and ask for help, of course! That's what 31-year-old Claude King (pictured ... Read More