One of the FBI’s most wanted embezzlers -- shown heavily bearded below -- hid “in plain sight” on the Appalachian trail for more than half a decade, before being recognized by another hiker this spring and busted.
Supertramp Benjamin Yoho is no longer homeless, after Colorado police convicted him this week of littering up a national park with about four tons of garbage over a 6-month period.
Texas prosecutors have charged a known domestic abuser’s widow and stepdaughter for his near-fatal shooting in 2007 and related death in 2011.
Pictured below is the East Coast drifter accused of committing the Connecticut strip mall serial murders in New Britain sometime during 2003.
If things continue to go right for Illinois inmate Mario Casciaro, he’ll be a free man soon, now that a 5-time felon’s testimony has been recanted and a panel of judges overturned his wrongful conviction.
An unnamed source involved in the #BellaBond murder case says that Deer Island’s Baby Doe (shown below) was punched to death by her mother’s boyfriend because he decided the toddler was “possessed.”
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
