Weekly Crime Poll: Should Polygraphs Be Used In Crime Investigations?
Friday February 29, 2008
Currently, the FBI conducts polygraph tests of all new employees prior to them beginning their service. In addition, individuals with access to certain sensitive programs or cases are polygraphed and ... Read More
Wanted: Carmelo Gaytan-Salais
Thursday February 28, 2008
On June 10, 2002, two U.S. Border Patrol Agents were staking out an area that was known for being used by vehicles crossing into the United States from Mexico ... Read More
Jury Recommends Life for Bobby Cutts Jr.
Wednesday February 27, 2008
An Ohio jury has voted to spare former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr. from the death penalty for the killing of his girlfriend and their unborn child. After two ... Read More
Internet Predators Don't Fit Stereotype
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Internet sex offenders are not adults who are targeting young children by posing as another child, contrary to popular belief, they are adults who try to gain the trust ... Read More
Trial Begins for Police Who Shot Groom
Monday February 25, 2008
The trial of three New York City police officers is scheduled to begin today in the death of Sean Bell, who was killed outside a strip club where his ... Read More
Lisa Lynette Clark Released From Prison
Sunday February 24, 2008
A Georgia woman who married her son's 15-year-old friend and later had his baby in prison, has been released from prison. Lisa Lynette Clark spent nine months in jail ... Read More
Cop's Third Wife's Death Ruled Homicide
Sunday February 24, 2008
While investigators continue to seek clues in the disappearance of a former Illinois policeman's fourth wife, a second autopsy has determine that his third wife's death in 2004 was ... Read More
Weekly Poll: Is There a Double Standard?
Friday February 22, 2008
A former South Carolina teacher will be serving six years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with five 14 and 15-year-old boys. Allenna Ward, 24, was actually sentenced ... Read More
Jury Finds Jensen Guilty of Wife's Poisoning
Thursday February 21, 2008
A jury deliberated almost four days before finding a Wisconsin man guilty of poisoning and suffocating his wife in 1998. Mark Jensen now faces a mandatory life sentence for ... Read More
Flashback: Westley Allan Dodd
Thursday February 21, 2008
In 1989, Westley Allen Dodd sexually assaulted and killed three boys ages 11, 10 and four. His methods were so heinous, forensic psychologists dubbed him one of the most ... Read More
South Carolina Teacher to Serve 6 Years
Wednesday February 20, 2008
A former South Carolina teacher has been sentenced to serve six years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with five teenage boys. Allenna Ward, 24, was actually ... Read More
Trial Begins in Oklahoma Cannibalism Case
Wednesday February 20, 2008
Jury selection has begun in the trial of an Oklahoma man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl whose dismembered body was found in a plastic tub in his ... Read More
Celebrity Mug Shot: Bai Ling
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Chinese actress Bai Ling managed to make it into our celebrity mug shot gallery by getting arrested for shoplifting two magazines and two packs of batteries from an airport ... Read More
Jury to Get Milwaukee Poisoning Case
Monday February 18, 2008
Almost 10 years after a Milwaukee woman was found dead in her bed after leaving a letter blaming her husband for her death, a jury will begin deliberating the ... Read More
Autopsy Confirms Brianna Denison's Body Found
Monday February 18, 2008
An autopsy report confirmed that a body found in a field near a Reno business park was that of Brianna Denison, who has been missing since January 20. The ... Read More
Police Seek Clues in Boca Raton Mall Murders
Sunday February 17, 2008
Investigators in Boca Raton, Florida, have released a new color sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with the death of a 47-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter in ... Read More
Illinois College Devastated by Shooting Rampage
Sunday February 17, 2008
Another college community has been devastated by a senseless shooting spree and left to figure out how a 27-year-old man they knew as an outstanding student, who was helpful, ... Read More
Bobby Cutts Jr. Found Guilty of Murder
Friday February 15, 2008
After four days of deliberations, a jury has found former Canton, Ohio policeman Bobby Cutts Jr. guilty of the murder of Jessie Davis and guilty of aggravated murder for ... Read More
Weekly Crime Poll: Does a Killer's Social History Matter?
Friday February 15, 2008
This week attorneys for Joseph Edward Duncan III have filed several motions in federal court to delay the death penalty sentencing hearing scheduled for April in connection with the abduction ... Read More
Celebrity Mug Shot: Katie Rees
Thursday February 14, 2008
Former Miss Nevada Katie Rees is no stranger to controversy, having lost her crown after some compromising photographs of her showed up on the Internet. Now her photo is ... Read More
Wanted: Jonathan Lamar Davis
Wednesday February 13, 2008
The FBI has added Jonathan Lamar Davis to its list of fugitives wanted for violent crimes. Davis is wanted for his alleged involvement in the armed robbery of a ... Read More
Bobby Cutts Jr. Testifies in His Own Defense
Tuesday February 12, 2008
A sobbing Bobby Cutts Jr. testified for four hours at his murder trial trying to explain to jurors how his pregnant lover Jessie Davis died and why he hid ... Read More
Police Release Sketch of Tinley Park Shooter
Monday February 11, 2008
Police in Tinley Park, Illinois, were handing out flyers with a sketch of the man who killed five women at a Lane Bryant clothing store in hopes someone recognizes ... Read More
Duncan's Attorneys Try to Delay Sentencing
Monday February 11, 2008
Attorneys for Joseph Edward Duncan III have filed several motions in federal court to delay the death penalty sentencing hearing scheduled for April in connection with the abduction of ... Read More
Hunter Finds Missing Elderly Hiker's Body
Monday February 11, 2008
Authorities used search dogs, forensic anthropology students and two instructors to look for evidence at the North Carolina scene where a hunter found the body of 80-year-old hiker John ... Read More
Mom Had Insurance Policy on 'Baby Grace'
Monday February 11, 2008
The mother of Riley Ann Sawyers, also known to the world as "Baby Grace," had a $15,000 life insurance police on the two-year-old, according to papers filed in Texas ... Read More
Brooke Wilberger Suspect Fights Extradition
Monday February 11, 2008
A man serving time in New Mexico for the kidnapping and rape of a college student, is fighting extradition to Oregon to face charges of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and ... Read More
St. Guillen's Mother Sues U.S. Government
Sunday February 10, 2008
The mother of Imette St. Guillen, who was found raped and strangled on a Brooklyn roadside in February 2006, is suing the federal government for not monitoring the activities ... Read More
Edwin Hall's Attorneys Claim Evidence Withheld
Sunday February 10, 2008
Attorney for the man accused of kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Kelsey Smith outside a Kansas department store have accused prosecutors of withholding evidence. Edwin Hall has pleaded not guilty ... Read More
Neil Entwistle Trial Delayed Again
Sunday February 10, 2008
The trial of a Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife and nine-months-old daughter has been delayed until June to allow one of his attorneys to recover from surgery. ... Read More
Jonesboro School Shooter in Trouble Again
Friday February 8, 2008
Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson has found himself in even more trouble after he was arrested over the weekend on a marijuana possession charge. A federal judge revoked Johnson's ... Read More
Weekly Crime Poll: Will Bobby Cutts Jr. Be Found Innocent or Guilty?
Friday February 8, 2008
Former policeman Bobby Cutts Jr., accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, claims that he did not kill Jessie Marie Davis, although he was able to tell investigators where ... Read More
Flashback: The Osage Hills Murders
Thursday February 7, 2008
The investigation of the brutal murders of nearly two dozen Osage Indians in
the early twentieth century was one of the most complicated and difficult
investigations ever conducted by the FBI. The ... Read More
Wanted for Assault: Robert Gaye
Tuesday February 5, 2008
Robert Gaye, a refugee from Liberia who imigrated to the Chicago area, has been added to our gallery of suspects wanted for crimes against children. He is wanted by ... Read More
FBI Seeks Information on Deceased Child
Tuesday February 5, 2008
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the identification of a deceased child from the Houston, Texas, area whom they are calling "Beloved Doe." The ... Read More
Trial Begins for Bobby Cutts Jr.
Tuesday February 5, 2008
A former policeman accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend claims that he did not kill Jessie Marie Davis, although he was able to tell investigators where to find her ... Read More
Ted Bundy Trivia Quiz
Monday February 4, 2008
Ted Bundy declared his innocence until his death in the electric chair became imminent, then he tried to use his victims one more time -- promising to reveal more ... Read More
Five Women Killed at Clothing Store
Sunday February 3, 2008
A manhunt is underway near Chicago for a man who shot and killed five women in a strip mall clothing store during what investigators believe was a botched robbery ... Read More
Reporter Says He 'Solved' Holloway Case
Friday February 1, 2008
Using an underground network of hidden cameras, a Dutch journalist claims to have solved the case of the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. After seeing key ... Read More
Gary Michael Hilton Pleads Guilty
Friday February 1, 2008
In a stunning development in the case of a murdered and decapitated Georgia hiker, Gary Michael Hilton was indicted, pleaded guilty and sentenced to life in prison all within ... Read More