Cecil the Lion Update: The American dentist sought by Zimbabwe police this week for unlawfully luring a popular and protected lion from its African sanctuary earlier in July, so to kill it, is reportedly in hiding now.
Celebrated true crime writer Ann Rule, who rose to prominence through her early association with Ted Bundy before he was outed as a serial killer and prosecuted, has died.
Zimbabwe officials are seeking to arrest Cecil the lion killing dentist, Walter Palmer, after the Minnesotan lured and then poached the nation’s beloved big cat from its African sanctuary earlier in July.
Oklahoma authorities suspect the Broken Arrow brothers were sick Columbine wannabes who spent their days and nights playing videogames and who sought to outdo all mass murder body-counts to date.
#FINDERSKEEPERS – a New Jersey man stole a big bag of cash two tellers left at an ATM, after the dimwitted bank employees became distracted while filling the cash-dispensing machine.
A very brave sex worker killed suspected serial killer Neal Falls with his own gun, after he attempted to kill her first.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for killing Madyson Middleton and throwing her in a dumpster not far from the slain child’s home.
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
