Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog March 2007 Archive

A 24-year-old man, who wanted to go see his brother play in a spring scrimmage football game at the University of South Carolina, shot one person to steal a ... Read More

A man, who claimed his innocence until the end and was a vocal opponent of the death penalty, was executed by the state of Texas after he set a ... Read More

In a case that caused a review of the child welfare system in the state of Washington, a woman has been found guilty of murder in the death of ... Read More

According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, road rage is becoming more and more prevalent in the United States and an increasingly dangerous crime. Do you know what ... Read More

An 18-month-old girl in a car seat and a man standing outside the vehicle were critically wounded in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. Police are seeking the public's ... Read More

Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose with no indication of foul play and no criminal action, according to the Seminole Police and the Broward County Medical ... Read More

The skeletal remains of eight people were discovered in a wooded area about 25 feet from a dirt street in Fort Myers, Florida. Investigators said the remains, which were ... Read More

Houston authorities will not be searching for the dismembered body parts of a 19-year-old Texas A&M student who disappeared March 15, because Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas says, "There ... Read More

A former 9-1-1 operator, who is already serving a life sentence for the murder of her policeman husband, has been convicted of poisoning the firefighter she moved in with ... Read More

Three members of a Georgia family have been charged with murder in connection with the death of six-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios, whose body was found in a garbage bag ... Read More

Citing funding problems for the defense, a judge once again delayed the beginning of the trial in the Atlanta Courthouse shooting case. Jury selection had been scheduled to begin ... Read More

The Kansas woman who faces the death penalty for strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the unborn child from her womb plans to use mental illness as her defense ... Read More

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 207,492 complaints during 2006 and referred 86,279 of those to law enforcement agencies for further action. By far the most reported ... Read More

A woman accused of running an escort service in the Washington D.C. area for 13 years has been ordered by a judge not to sell her client list to ... Read More

One of the most popular features at the Crime and Punishment site are the mug shot galleries, especially the gallery featuring famous celebrities. By popular demand we have expanded ... Read More

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector, accused of shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his home Feb. 3, 2003. Jury ... Read More

A sixth-grade Delaware teacher cried in court as she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, the mandatory minimum sentence. Rachel L. Holt, 35, entered a plea of guilty ... Read More

When Illinois man broke into an apartment to steal a plastic jug filled with about $400 in change, he apparently had in mind buying drugs and returning to a ... Read More

Searchers have found the body of a six-year-old Georgia boy, who had been missing from a Brunswick mobile home park for a week. The discovery of Christopher Barrios, Jr. ... Read More

A jury of his peers took less than one hour today to recommend a death sentence for John Evander Couey for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Jessica ... Read More

A new DNA testing program implemented in Washington state has led to the quick identification and arrest of an individual charged with raping an 11-year-old girl and freed a ... Read More

Few will disagree that the attacks on the two elderly women in New York City this week was an appaling crime motivated by the victims' age and vulnerability. Assuming ... Read More

The New York Police Department has launched a widespread search for a mugger, whose brutal attack of an 101-year-old woman using a walker to make her way to church ... Read More

Researchers report that 18 percent of young women say they have experience sexual victimization in the past two years and 66 percent of them were victimized by an intimate ... Read More

Violent crime increased last year, and many cities experienced double-digit or even triple-digit percentage increases in homicides and other violence, according to the latest statistics gathered by the Police ... Read More

A Missouri man accused of kidnapping and assaulting two boys, who were found in his apartment, has turned down a plea agreement that would have sentenced him to prison ... Read More

Lisa Nowak, the astronaut accused of attempted kidnapping in a love-triangle with a space pilot, is no longer an astronaut, although she continues as an officer in the Navy. ... Read More

A jury in Miami deliberated for almost four hours today before returning guilty verdicts in all charges against John Evander Couey in the kidnapping, rape and murder of ... Read More

In light of a rash of child abductions, rapes and murders by previously convicted sex offenders, the U.S. Congress and several states are considering new laws that will force ... Read More

Closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the murder trial of John Evander Couey after the defense suddenly rested its case after calling only one witness. The defense's only witness ... Read More

Statistics tell us that most all of us have been involved in an aggressive driving experience either as the victim or the aggressor at some point in our lives. ... Read More

The husband of a woman who has been missing since Feb. 9 has been arrested in a snowbound wooded area of northern Michigan following a search of the couple's ... Read More

A Missouri pizzeria manager, who is charged with kidnapping and molesting two boys found in his apartment, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges. ... Read More

The 'Barbie Bandits' have been nabbed. Georgia police say they have arrested two young women, seen in surveillance tapes holding up a bank branch in a supermarket wearing ... Read More

A 23-year-old female teacher in South Carolina has been arrested on charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and six counts of lewd acts on a minor after ... Read More

An almost two-year-long investigation into a Mexican based drug ring has led to the arrest of more than 400 people, the confiscation of more than $45.2 million in cash ... Read More

Georgia police are asking the public's help in identifying two young females who calmly held up a bank branch in a grocery store, wearing only dark sunglasses as a ... Read More