An Ohio killer now faces a death sentence for the sledgehammer slayings of a couple whose daughter he had almost killed 10 days earlier for refusing to have sex with him.
“I think mommy just started a forest fire,” Amber Pangborn told her brand new baby, after inexpertly trying to send SOS smoke signals from the Plumas National Forest preserve where she had gotten lost in.
A toddler was literally swung to death in a Maryland public park this spring, in a bizarre incident that has just been ruled a homicide.
A violently hazed UVA swimmer has sued five of his former teammates for forcing him to abandon his pursuit of a swim career at the acclaimed college.
Thirty primate perps pulled off an escape from Puerto Rico confines over the weekend, after apparently conning someone to help them bust out of the joint by breaking a padlock.
New research reveals that nearly half of American kids suffer violence in real time, not just in shoot-em-up movies, video games, or television shows.
A young Texas woman missing in Curacao since last week is believed to have vanished while snorkeling back to the Cas Abao beach resort.
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
