Reportedly escaped con Richard Matt has been shot dead in NY today near the border town of Malone trying to carjack a motorist and then fleeing from authorities on foot.
California’s top man is pondering today whether a con who buried a disabled boy alive after forcing the victim to dig his own grave while beating, stabbing and choking him, deserves parole now.
A prime example of how deadly the wrath of an ungrateful child can be is currently unfolding in Oregon at this hour as police interrogate a son who killed and froze his parents.
The baffling Kristen Modafferi cold case has finally seen a break after a cadaver dog detected human remains in the California home where she last lived before vanishing without a trace almost two decades ago.
Alabama K9 Mason died last Friday at the age of three when his distracted handler left him in an overheating patrol vehicle for hours on end.
The self-named Watcher of Westfield has turned a New Jersey family’s recently-purchased dream home into a royal nightmare, with a series of creepy letters that contain thinly veiled threats.
The FBI suspects there’s a serial killer in Chillicothe Ohio and have at last joined forces with local authorities of the small town in hopes of apprehending him before he kidnaps and murders another young woman.
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
