Leslie Van Houten, a Manson Family follower who’s serving a life sentence for two murders, has sought release after an inmate in her housing unit tested positive for the coronavirus. According to the Los Feliz Ledger, Rich Pfeiffer, an attorney representing Van Houten, 70, asked California’s Second District Court of Appeals to release his client …
Mike Tokars, the son of Fred Tokars and slain mother, Sara Tokars, passed away in California on Friday. AJC reports that Mike Tokars, 31, who was a young boy when he witnessed his mother’s death, developed a blood clot behind his knee earlier this year. After undergoing treatment in California, a clot “broke loose and …
Prosecutors in New York are reportedly reinvestigating Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination in light of new information presented in a Netflix documentary. According to the New York Post, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office announced Tuesday that they’ll be working with the Innocence Project to reexamine the high-profile case. The District Attorney has reportedly reached out …
A Connecticut man sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing his wife and using a chain saw and wood chipper to dispose of her body was freed from prison nearly 20 years early. According to the Hartford Courant, Department of Correction (DOC) spokesperson Karen Martucci said Friday that Richard Crafts, 82, is living at …
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Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who murdered her two young sons 25 years ago, cries every Christmas behind bars. That’s according to a new report from PEOPLE, which cites an unnamed prison source. “The holidays fill her with guilt and regret,” the source told the magazine. “She cries for her children every Christmas. She knows …
An artist who’s already used his own blood and some of Charles Manson’s ashes to create a painting of the deceased cult leader has gone a step further, using more of Manson’s ashes and real human blood to fashion life-like Manson masks, TMZ reports. Artist Ryan Almighty hooked up with master mask-maker Rick “Sik Rik” …
A Missouri woman who is serving a life sentence for a disabled man’s shooting death disparaged witnesses who claimed to have been near-victims themselves as attention-seekers. KTVI recently obtained jailhouse phone conversations between Pam Hupp and her husband Marc Hupp which transpired shortly before Hupp pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Louis Gumpenberger in her O’Fallon …
Skylar Richardson, an Ohio teen acquitted for murder after burying her baby girl in her backyard, has opened up for the first time since her acquittal. Richardson was 17 in 2017 when her doctor told her she was pregnant. Richardson said she was already in her third trimester when she learned she was pregnant and …
The dirty side of Dixie: Billy Sunday Birt, leader of the Georgia Dixie Mafia
Casey Anthony, a Florida woman widely thought to have played a role in her toddler daughter’s death, is apparently still thinking about the possibility of having another baby. “She feels like her biological clock is ticking,” a source close to Anthony told PEOPLE. “She knows she’s getting older. She’s not the young girl who everyone …
A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …
A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
