Surviving Boston bomber bro Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all charges this week, and now faces the penalty phase of his capital murder trial which could see the 21-year-old self-made Islamic militant executed someday.
Convicted Salt Mom Lacey Spears, who was found guilty last month in the second-degree murder of her 5-year-old son, Garnett, has been sentenced for 20 years to life.
Two kidnapped Amish girls sexually exploited in upstate New York will likely be spared the additional trauma of having to recite their ordeal in court, officials hope.
Officials say an ax murder suicide in Elmwood NJ over the weekend was the result of the elderly perpetrator’s dementia, and that he may have tried at least three other times to harm himself and his wife.
Japanese POW vivisections on U.S. airmen during WWII were part of a larger atrocity conducted by the rogue empire against thousands of men, women and children interred at prisoner of war camps.
A suspect in the Cambridge Mass. dismemberment of a young Somerset man was ordered held on $1-million bail yesterday, as prosecutors relayed to the court the gory details of the crime he had just perpetrated.
Lawyers for accused killer Aaron Hernandez rested their case yesterday after offering only three witnesses for the defense, suggesting that today’s closing arguments could be similarly brief.
New designer drug Flakka might make its users feel super and superhuman at the same time, but the unearthly high it provides is not only short lived, it’s potentially lethal as well.
The massive Silk Road drug bust some 18 months ago has finally seen two of America’s top cops arrested for their illicit roles in aiding and abetting the online criminal enterprise.
An anorexic models ban is now in effect in the fashion capitol of the world, under a new French law that makes it a crime for anyone in the rag business to employ females who appear to be “dangerously thin.”
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
