Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog March 2008 Archive

A New Jersey man accused of killing his girlfriend because he could no longer afford to support two households has been ordered held on $1 million bond. Rosario DiGirolamo ... Read More

Travelers who have recently flown through Tampa International Airport on Continental Airlines may want to check to see if they are missing any electronic gadgets. Airport police arrested three ... Read More

A 52-year-old Florida woman has been arrested for trying to stab her 15-year-old son during a supervised visit at a psychiatrist's office. Police are trying to determine what motive ... Read More

The trial of three of four men charged with the murder of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor originally scheduled for early April has now been delayed until August. Defense ... Read More

Phil Spector's new attorney, Doron Weinberg, has requested a delay in the start of his re-trial because the new defense team will not be ready until September. Meanwhile, Weinberg ... Read More

Within two weeks, three Tampa area teachers have been accused of having sex with their students. Since 2005, at least 10 schoolteachers in Hillsborough and neighboring Florida counties have been ... Read More

Within two weeks, three Tampa area teachers have been accused of having sex with their students. The arrests of a middle school teacher, a high school teacher and a ... Read More

The Georgia man who police say was the mastermind behind the "Barbie Bandits" bank robbery has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The new prison term will be ... Read More

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is claiming that a federal judge is teaming up with a former law partner to target him for retribution. Francis says U.S. District ... Read More

Two Georgia women who became known as the "Barbie Bandits" have been sentenced for their part in the $11,000 robbery of grocery store bank branch office on Feb. 27, ... Read More

A Georgia hiker who was killed and decapitated in the north Georgia mountains, used her wits and her martial arts training to fight off her attacker for four days, ... Read More

The Reno Police Department has released to the media an updated description and other information about the suspect in the Brianna Denison murder and at least two other sexual ... Read More

A Nevada man who killed his wife and tried to shoot the judge who handled his divorce case has been ordered to pay $590 million in a wrongful death ... Read More

A former Symbionese Liberation Army member who was a fugitive for years living as an ordinary housewife in Minnesota, was released from prison last week after serving about seven ... Read More

For years rumors have persisted that many other victims may have fallen prey to Charles Manson and his followers in the high desert in California. Now a group of forensic ... Read More

Take a stroll through the history of American crime figures in our Mafia mug shot photo gallery. Pictured are mugshots of members of the American mafia, famous gangsters and mobsters, ... Read More

The FBI has added the case of Rupinder Kaur Goraya to its list of missing or kidnapped persons that the agency is actively investigating. Goraya, a registered nurse from ... Read More

The Georgia Supreme Court has turned down an appeal for a new trial for Troy Davis, convicted of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. The court ... Read More

For years rumors have persisted that many other victims may have fallen prey to Charles Manson and his followers in the high desert in California. Now a group of ... Read More

In a strange twist to an already bizarre case, an accused serial killer once helped develop a plot to a murder movie that had similarities to the crimes that ... Read More

While investigating the death of Brianna Denison, Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley last month asked for public donations to help eliminate a backlog of nearly 3,000 DNA samples which ... Read More

Both of the suspects charged with the murder of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson were on probation and one of them should have had his ... Read More

A Marshall University student who was found in a crawlspace in the basement of her apartment house was strangled to death by someone she knew and someone who knew ... Read More

This week the Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, with his wife by his side, announced he would be leaving political life to focus on healing himself and his family ... Read More

The on-again, off-again court-ordered medication for one of the accused kidnappers of Elizabeth Smart is off again at least temporarily. The Utah Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt to ... Read More

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis entered no contest pleas in Panama City, Florida, to child abuse and prostitution charges in a plea agreement that allowed him to walk ... Read More

One suspect has been arrested and another remains at large in the robbery and murder of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson. Demario James Atwater, 21, ... Read More

A former Detroit 9-1-1 operator, who was found guilty by a jury for willful neglect of duty after she failed to get help for a five-year-old who called for ... Read More

A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Oklahoma for first-degree murder in connection with the death of a University of Arkansas student at her off-campus apartment last week. Katharine ... Read More

A convicted killer recently released from prison has been charged in connection with a killing spree that left six people dead in a Memphis home. Investigators said Jessie L. ... Read More

A man who confessed to killing a 10-year-old girl to carry out his fantasy of cannibalizing a victim has been recommended for the death penalty by an Oklahoma jury. ... Read More

A Las Vegas judge reluctantly agreed to delay the armed robbery and kidnapping trial of O.J. Simpson until September, but refused to drop any of the charges. The judge ... Read More

Authorities have released a photograph of a man using the ATM card of Eve Carson, the University of North Carolina student body president who was found shot to death ... Read More

A 23-year-old Alabama man has been arrested after a brief car and foot chase and charged with the murder, robbery and attempted rape of Lauren Burk, a freshman at ... Read More

The Constitution forbids the use of visible shackles during a capital trial’s penalty phase, as it does during the guilt phase, unless that use is “justified by an essential state ... Read More

A second university student from Georgia attending college out of state has been shot and killed within 24 hours. Eve Marie Carson, the president of the University of North ... Read More

A former Tennessee elementary school teacher, whose probation was revoked when she continued to send a 13-year-old boy sexually explicit photos of herself, had her first parole hearing Wednesday. ... Read More

An 18-year-old Auburn University student was found shot on a highway near the school about 20 minutes before her car was found on fire in a campus parking lot. ... Read More

Investigators have no clues and no suspects in a killing spree that left six people dead and three young children wounded in a small home in a Memphis working-class ... Read More

Robert Carlos Cruz was one of nine inmates who escaped from the Riverside County Jail in Blythe, California, on June 15, 2006 and the only one who was not ... Read More

Upset because her parents demanded that she break up with her 19-year-old boyfriend, a 16-year-old Texas girl has been charged with killing her mother and two brothers and setting ... Read More

In April 2007, the founder of the multimillion dollar "Girls Gone Wild" video empire was sentenced to 35 days in jail for contempt of court. Now, almost a year ... Read More

A man who is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to killing a hiker in the north Georgia mountains has now been indicted in the death of Cheryl ... Read More

An Oklahoma man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a 10-year-old girl that he planned to kill, rape, dismember, cook and eat. The trial ... Read More

How much do you know about the most famous crimes in history? Famous Mugshots Quiz Serial Pursuit Quiz Scott Peterson Trivia Quiz The BTK Strangler Crime Quiz Can You Name This Criminal? Crime Game: Serial ... Read More

How safe is your home and office from invasion by criminals? Do you feel secure when you go to work? How about your home computer system? Is it as safe ... Read More

Mischa Barton, best known for her role in the former television show "The O.C.," has been added to our growing celebrity mug shot gallery. Her arrest stems from a ... Read More

A 17-year-old Georgia boy has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother and her two young daughters, one of whom is the four-year-old ... Read More

The FBI has added Chuckie Vang to its list of violent criminals who are wanting for fleeing to avoid prosecution. Investigators say Vang went to a Wisconsin motel room ... Read More