Derek Eugene Pettis, a 24-year-old gang member, found himself handcuffed in the back seat of a squad car after a drunken bar fight in 1994, but the Los Angeles deputy who placed him there wasn’t going to bring him to jail. Deputy Terrence Wenger, 31, and volunteer chaplain Bruce Bryan, …
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Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extortion and fraud last week in a twisted plot to con money out of the mother of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen he has now admitted to killing in Aruba in 2005. While the plea deal in a federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, …
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A gang of masked thieves intentionally rammed into another driver on a Los Angeles freeway Tuesday then allegedly robbed him in a caught-on-camera heist pulled off in broad daylight. The shocking footage captured by another driver shows a Dodge Grand Caravan pursuing a black Alfa Romeo traveling eastbound on I-10, …
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Just days after prosecutors added his sister, Amanda Kohberger, to their witness list, Bryan Kohberger agreed to a plea deal, abruptly ending the case before it could go to trial, new court filings reveal. Newly unsealed court documents show that Amanda Kohberger appeared on the state’s amended witness list and …
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A judge in Idaho has blocked the release of graphic images from the home where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students. Second District Judge Megan Marshall issued the ruling Wednesday, writing that graphic images which include blood and any of the victims’ bodies will not be released by law enforcement …
Read More »Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions. There’s a dark current in Houston’s bayous this year, with 16 bodies recovered, five of them in the same week last month. City leaders are downplaying speculation about a potential serial killer, but retired NYPD Sgt. Kevin Gannon, who has long espoused …
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A long-awaited review of the death of Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, controversially ruled a suicide by 23 stab wounds in 2011, has reaffirmed the finding — but experts still say the evidence tells a different story. Dr. Lindsay Simon, the city’s chief medical examiner, was tasked with reviewing the work …
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed a parole board’s decision to release Patricia Krenwinkel, a former follower of cult leader Charles Manson and one of the perpetrators of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. In a decision issued Oct. 13 and obtained by Fox News, Newsom wrote that Krenwinkel, now 77, “lacks …
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There’s something beneath the surface of Houston’s waters, as city police pull body after body from the bayous. Now, one family is demanding answers about how a 22-year-old ended up dead with no wounds, no drugs and no explanation. Kenneth Cutting Jr. vanished after a night out in downtown Houston …
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The harrowing story of serial killer Ted Bundy leaves behind a somber legacy on the West Coast of the United States — and recently uncovered crime scene photos and audio tapes continue to unravel the truth in a new series about the malicious murderer. “Hunting Bundy: Chase for the Devil,” …
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