Ex KGB-man Putin killed Nemtsov, critics of the Kremlin are claiming, adding that the president’s hunt for fictitious suspects is no small farce.
Symbolic Selma marches are being staged this weekend, but these calm commemorations differ sharply with the original events:
Another unarmed black man is dead at the hands of a white police officer and another city’s streets are filling with protesters.
The sole Jodi Arias juror responsible for a hung sentencing-jury this week, and thereby freeing Travis Alexander’s killer from a death sentence, is being threatened with death herself now.
Missing Malaysian plane Flight 370 has now been gone without a trace exactly one year, and without ever issuing even one distress signal before suddenly falling off radar.
Dozens are calling Bill Cosby a serial rapist now, with startling accounts of sexual assault dating back decades into the celebrated performer’s past.
Bad news for Aaron Hernandez in his trial for the ruthless gangland-style killing of an ex pal and fellow footballer in 2013.
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
