The bodies of 36 US Marines found 70 years after death this month on Betio Island in Kiribati were all killed in WWII during the bloody Battle of Tarawa, and are going home now.
Police have charged a man who kept captive deer inside his rural West Virginia home, although why anyone but Santa would want to do such a thing remains an unsolved mystery.
A mother who strangled her toddler over toileting issues last month and who then threw the slain child’s body into a ravine has now been arrested in Pittsburgh.
Police have found the drowned baby of a bridge-jumper who maliciously took the infant boy with him into the Connecticut River to spite the child’s mom, but who didn’t die himself.
India’s already sensational Vyapam scam is progressively turning into a massive whodunit mystery too, as both bribery suspects and those attempting to apprehend them have begun dropping like flies.
A lawyer for fired QB DeAndre Johnson says the Tallahassee lassie who “Mr. Football” slugged with a sucker punch that ultimately cost him a player position at Florida State University, was basically asking for it.
The notorious Bill Cosby pound cake rant in which he lambasted the black race for their supposed crimes and neglects has the accused entertainer eating humble pie now, in light of his own nasty deeds.
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
