A Boston cop has been charged with battering a woman during a domestic dispute at his home on Tuesday.
As the #DogDays of summer start smothering us again, it’s big cats and fat cats who are dominating headlines this week on Crime Magazine. Here are some of the cases and judicial contests we’re closely watching:
A real life Detroit Tiger has been captured and the jerk who left it behind during a photo shoot gone awry at the defunct Packard auto-plant this month is under investigation.
The premature parole of Oscar Pistorius has been overturned by South Africa’s ministry of justice on the grounds that the convicted killer’s early release has “no legal basis.”
An amazing $15,000 reward has been raised for the arrest and prosecution of those who viciously kicked to death a tiny fox-faced Pomeranian in Florida earlier this month.
Federal prosecutors say ex Subway Guy Jared Fogle will plead down to child porn charges, in an announcement due later today.
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
