Robert Durst’s missing wife told neighbor of brutal beating, threats: Detective
Celebrity Justice
Kathleen Durst has never been found. A New York judge last month declared her dead.
Murder
April 25, 2017
Convicted murderer and rapist utters “I’m sorry” moments before the first U.S. double execution in over fifteen years
Jones was sent to death row for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips. He strangled her with the cord to a coffee pot.
Hate Crimes
April 24, 2017
‘He’s a murderer’: Jewish high school students protest outside home of 92-year-old ex-Nazi
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, students from a Long Island, New York, yeshiva rallied in front of a Nazi concentration camp guard’s home on Monday. The students traveled from Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence to the Queens home of Jakiw Palij, 92. According to the New York Daily News, the nonagenarian is the last known former Nazi camp guard …
Sex Offenders
April 24, 2017
Sister of Tennessee kidnap suspect Tad Cummins: ‘He’s still my brother and I love him.’ Former teacher claims he ran away with teen student to keep her ‘safe’
The sister of former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who was arrested last week after 39 days on the run with 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas, says her brother doesn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. Daphne Quinn, Cummins’s sister, revealed on the Today show Monday morning that she had been in contact with her brother …
Trials
April 19, 2017
Convicted killer Aaron Hernandez commits suicide in prison
Hernandez died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning
Sex Offenders
April 15, 2017
Sexual assault victim SHOCKED when judge calls convicted rapist and ex-Mormon bishop a ‘good man’ during sentencing
Victim: “He only cared about the person he was convicting”
Celebrity Justice
April 14, 2017
SHOCK VERDICT: Aaron Hernandez not guilty in double murder
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink.
Trials
April 13, 2017
Delaware judge convicts girl in fatal school bathroom fight
RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge on Thursday convicted a 17-year-old girl of criminally negligent homicide after a school bathroom fight that left a 16-year-old classmate dead. Family Court Judge Robert Coonin delivered his ruling after hearing a week of testimony in the nonjury trial for three teenage girls charged …
Juveniles
April 8, 2017
Casey Anthony: Tot mom jokes, screams, cries in never-before-seen video footage from jail
Never-before-seen footage of Casey Anthony, aka Tot Mom, speaking to her parents from jail will air Sunday night in the premiere of Investigation Discovery’s three-part series Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery. The premiere episode explores the first shocking weeks of the investigation into her three-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony’s disappearance in 2008 — an investigation …
Family Crime
April 6, 2017
Sick! Ex-Amish couple “gift’ away their young daughters
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A couple accused of gifting their daughters to a cult-like figure who considered them wives has pleaded to child endangerment charges. Savilla and Daniel Stoltzfus got financial help from Lee Kaplan when they fell on hard times after breaking from their Amish faith, according to authorities and interviews with relatives and …
Child Abuse
April 5, 2017
‘House of horrors’: Man allegedly molested eight foster kids, performed oral sex on dog in their presence
A man testified Wednesday that his adoptive father threatened to murder him if he didn’t accept his sexual advances. Taking in more than 140 boys in a 20-year span, Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, 60, is accused of molesting eight kids he had in his care. According to the New York Daily News, the 29-year-old witness, who was about …
Juveniles
April 4, 2017
Mom who self-delivered baby boy convicted of manslaughter
A woman who delivered a baby boy on the bathroom floor was convicted of manslaughter on Monday. On June 8, 2014, Jodie Renee Tarnawskyj, 38, went into labor in her Queensland, Australia, home and gave birth to a boy named Oliver. Believing Oliver was stillborn, Tarnawskyj testified that she cut his umbilical cord, wrapped him in …
