In the search for two escaped convicts, police are being sent in every direction this week, even back to the upstate New York prison that the deadly duo broke out of … but their dangerous quarry hasn’t been caught yet.
Paraplegic Olympian Oscar Pistorius has been approved for parole in August, after serving less than a year in the hospital ward of a Pretoria prison for the vicious Valentine’s Day murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Prosecutors say a mother charged for gassing her children to death this month in Connecticut left a detailed suicide note, but failed to kill herself before a friend and police intervened.
Five of the notorious 10 naked tourists on a mountaintop in Malaysia have been arrested, while authorities there continue pursuing the rest of the unruly gang, thought to still be at large in the country.
A finished copy of the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel has been stolen just one week before its official release, publisher Penguin Random House reported Monday.
Connecticut investigators believe William Howell is the strip mall serial killer, and continue searching for links to a slew of other unsolved disappearances in and around the community of New Britain.
Former House speaker Dennis Hastert was finally forced to break his silence and enter a plea in federal charges of banking fraud before a judge today.
A devoted service dog named Figo threw himself in front of an oncoming school bus yesterday to save his blind owner from being struck and killed.
Maryland doctors say the patient with a super TB strain they’re currently treating at the National Institutes of Health may have come into contact with hundreds of people before being diagnosed with the drug resistant form
The strip mall serial killer burial site in Connecticut has yielded clues to the identity of yet another female victim, gone without a trace since 2003.
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
