Nine brains found beside railroad tracks in a rural upstate New York county touched off fears in the local populace that a serial killer might be lurking near their village.
A fugitive killer, sought for murdering a woman who escaped a cage in his home over a month ago, was shot dead yesterday during an attempt to take him into custody.
Maryland police found a mother swinging a dead baby at a public playground Friday and are now investigating the possibility that foul play was involved in the child’s death.
NY police say missing murdered kayaker Vincent Viafore has been found drowned this weekend, well over a month after he disappeared in a suspicious boating mishap with his fiancée Angelika Graswald.
Predictably, crime is spiking in Baltimore, in what some critics say is an intentional law enforcement “slowdown” by officers bitter about the Freddie Gray prosecutions of six of their finest.
A Florida dentist sued for gruesome and often unneeded dental procedures on poor children has closed his “house of horrors” and relinquished his license to perform dentistry.
Amid Josh Duggar molestation claims, TLC has yanked its immensely popular Duggar family reality show, 19 Kids and Counting.
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
