The trial of a woman accused of feeding her lookalike friend poisoned cheesecake began in the New York City borough of Queens on Monday, CBS New York reports. Prosecutors say the suspect hoped to kill her target and steal her identity. When Olga Svyk was asked if the person who …
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A series of crashes caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 killed five people, including two Arkansas high school students and three recent graduates of the school, and seriously injured others in south-central Wyoming. The driver has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, according to a Wyoming …
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A former men’s magazine model was sentenced Tuesday in Nevada to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing a California doctor whose bludgeoned corpse was found in 2019 in the trunk of her abandoned car just outside Las Vegas. Kelsey Nichole Turner, 29, agreed in November to a so-called …
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A body found inside a donation bin in South Carolina had likely been dead for at least several months, Kershaw County authorities said. Someone found the body after checking the rusty bin well off U.S. Highway 1 in Lugoff after smelling a bad odor, investigators said. Investigators first thought the …
Read More »An Indiana coroner’s office is asking relatives of young men who vanished between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s to submit DNA samples in a renewed effort to identify human remains found on land once owned by a man suspected in a string of killings, the scope of which remain unclear. …
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Editor’s Note: Authorities have provided an update to this case. Read the story here. Four people have been found dead and one injured following a reported hostage situation in northwest Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Monday. The OSBI said in a statement that the Kingfisher County Sheriff’s …
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The Department of Justice on Monday charged a former professional heavyweight boxer with trafficking over 20 tons of cocaine worth more than $1 billion through U.S. ports, most of which was from what prosecutors in 2019 called “one of the largest drug seizures in United States history.” Goran Gogic, 43, …
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Two teachers recounted near-miss confrontations with a teen gunman who broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a teacher and a teenage girl, and wounding seven others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire. Police Chief Michael Sack identified the shooter as 19-year-old …
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The trial of a Florida woman accused of dressing up as clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later married has been postponed following the disclosure of a law enforcement file containing information about other clown-sighting leads at the time. Prosecutors informed defense attorneys for …
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One person was wounded when a suspect opened fire at a Hampton Inn in Dearborn, Michigan, police said Thursday. The suspect was taken into custody later that night after barricading themselves in a hotel room for hours, according to police. Police said they first responded to a report of shots …
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