The Gotham gator apprehended in uptown Manhattan on Thursday, after roaming the city for days and possibly even weeks, has died in custody.
A pregnant woman who took a wrong turn into the wilderness last month on the way to Grandma’s house, then birthed a baby girl in the woods and started an SOS forest fire so they’d be rescued, has just lost custody of the newborn.
Police say there is no remorse shown and no motive known for the Broken Arrow massacre perpetrated this week by two teen relatives of the slain family.
The suspected Modesto mass murderer of a family of five females last weekend has also been charged now in the suspicious death of a toddler boy in 2014.
Missing doctor Jeffrey Whiteside, found dead in a wooded area of Liberty Grove Wisconsin after a three week search, may have died from a gunshot wound.
Police say a butchered brother in the massacre at Broken Arrow this week fingered two older siblings as the killers with his last dying breath.
A very distraught Sandra Bland killed herself in an empty Texas jail cell built to house a handful of prisoners at one time.
Skeletal remains of a toddler closely resembling missing girl Madeleine McCann in age and other aspects has been found in an abandoned suitcase this week in Australia.
A creepy New Jersey man takes Crime Magazine’s Weird Crime award today, after being charged for sneaking into a woman’s home while she was taking out the trash and secretly hiding under a bed for days.
The skeletal remains of a woman missing 25 years were found in a Florida pond this week, after a man using a magnet to locate the vehicle of another recently missing person found her automobile instead.
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
