For better or worse, kids and courts are #trending on Crime Magazine for this first week of September 2015. Here are some of the high profile cases we’re following:
1. Aided by recent forensic breakthroughs regarding isotopes, minerals and fibers, detectives are narrowing down the possible birthplace and lifestyle of a dead #BabyDoe toddler, so they can nail the creep who dumped her corpse on Deer Island. Please take a good long look at the police artist’s computer sketch of this deceased child and share it too -- you might just be the one who solves Massachusetts’ most tragic #ColdCase.
2. Throwing deceased or slain youngsters away seems to be a scary new trend these days: Chicago police have just cordoned off and closed a portion of #GarfieldPark this #LaborDay weekend, after a toddler’s head, hands and feet were found floating in its lagoon -- this child’s cause of death and identity is also an unsolved mystery.
3. Of course, some folks don’t deposit the bodies of innocent children on deserted shores or in bracken pools; they just drag them through the #FamilyCourt system ... Crime Mag’s been providing exclusive coverage of an exceptionally warped #custody battle that continues to defy logic, laws, or human decency -- check out this Connecticut mom’s trial by fire.
4. Some children, unfortunately, do turn out to be the devil’s spawn in disguise, as with the two Oklahoma teen brothers who’ve confessed to butchering their family in the #BrokenArrow massacre this summer -- new revelations distinguish the #Bever bros’ mass murder case as one of the most troubling parricides on record … so far.
5. Finally, comes rather disquieting proof that a parent can dress their son in a respectable uniform, cap and white gloves, but that still won’t guarantee he’ll become “an officer and a gentleman.” At least not if he’s attending the #WestPoint military academy -- see how a handful of demented cadets turned this year’s harmless annual pillow-fight into a bloody spectacle, and a broadening criminal probe too.
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