This week at Crime Magazine we’re tracking case developments and breaking news on the following top stories and more:
Missing baby Lonzie Barton has suffered the same fate of another missing child he’s related to, though the odds of that being a coincidence seem pretty slim.
Once and for all, a son has proven to his father that he is “big and bad” by lying on the ornery old man’s head and smothering him to death.
Famed NFL quarterback Joe Namath is joining the desperate quest to find two Florida boys lost at sea after their boat apparently capsized.
BREAKING NEWS: Reports of the Milwaukee Lion have evidently been confirmed by police today, one week after numerous 911 calls concerning a “large lion" at large in the city first started pouring in.
The search resumes today for two missing teens, Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, who disappeared during a fishing trip this weekend near Jupiter Florida.
The Celina Cass murder four years ago has become one of New Hampshire’s most haunting cold cases, and some relatives of the slain girl worry cops don’t care enough anymore about solving the crime mystery.
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
