by ABC News Writers President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent Friday’s sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case. In a filing Wednesday morning, defense lawyers argued that sentencing Trump — who has attempted to halt the case based on a claim of presidential immunity — would damage “the institutionContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Trump asks Supreme Court to block his criminal hush money sentencing”
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True Crime Sundays: Colorado funeral home owners who let 190 bodies decay plead guilty to fraud
Jon and Carie Hallford were exposed when neighbors reported “an abhorrent smell” coming from their Colorado funeral home, authorities said. by Daniel Wu The owners of a Colorado funeral home who sparked a statewide scandal after authorities discovered nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their business havepleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Jon andContinue reading “True Crime Sundays: Colorado funeral home owners who let 190 bodies decay plead guilty to fraud”
True Crime Sundays: His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot.
Drew Crecente’s daughter was murdered nearly two decades ago. Earlier this month, he discovered that her name and image had been used to create an AI chatbot. by Daniel Wu One morning in early October, about 18 years after his daughter Jennifer was murdered, Drew Crecente received a Google alert flagging what appeared to beContinue reading “True Crime Sundays: His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot.”
True Crime Sundays: Alcatraz Escapes: 14 Breakout Attempts from the Island Prison
To ditch the infamous federal penitentiary, inmates tried everything from paper-mâché masks to a military impersonation to a bloody revolt. by Aaron Randle Ever since Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary opened as a maximum-security lockup in 1934 on a desolate island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, officials touted it as “America’s most secure prison.” During its nearly 30Continue reading “True Crime Sundays: Alcatraz Escapes: 14 Breakout Attempts from the Island Prison”
A 14-year-old student fatally shot 4 people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say
by Jeff Amy WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A 14-year-old student opened fire at a Georgia high school and killed four people on Wednesday, authorities said, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms — and eventually to the football stadium — as officers swarmed the campus and parents raced to find out if their childrenContinue reading “A 14-year-old student fatally shot 4 people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say”
True Crime Sundays: Husband ‘fatally shot his wife in the head and then put the gun in her hand to make it look like a suicide’
by Daily Mail Reporter A man has been accused of staging his wife’s death to look like a suicide after he fatally shot her in the head. Ronald Rogers Jr., 46, allegedly shot his wife Elizabeth Rogers, 40, at their home in Fargo, North Dakota and then placed a pistol in her hand before callingContinue reading “True Crime Sundays: Husband ‘fatally shot his wife in the head and then put the gun in her hand to make it look like a suicide’”
History Lesson Tuesdays: Krakatoa explodes with massive force – 1883
One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history occurs on Krakatoa (also called Krakatau), a small, uninhabited volcanic island east of Sumatra and west of Java, on August 27, 1883. Heard 3,000 miles away—and believed to have produced the loudest sounds in human history—the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air,Continue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Krakatoa explodes with massive force – 1883”
True Crime Sundays: Prolific Serial Killer Nurse Charles Cullen May Have Killed As Many As 400 Patients
The murderer’s 16-year medical career in New Jersey and Pennsylvania ended after he was arrested in 2003. by Aaron Rasmussen A nurse who admitted he killed at least 29 patients on the East Coast over his 16-year medical career is destined to die behind bars. In March 2006, a judge in Somerset County, New Jersey,Continue reading “True Crime Sundays: Prolific Serial Killer Nurse Charles Cullen May Have Killed As Many As 400 Patients”
True Crime Sundays: Over Four Decades Later, Serial Killer Confesses To Murdering Teen On Spring Break In 1980
In March 1980, teen Carol Ann Barrett was kidnapped from the Daytona Beach motel room she shared with her friends on Spring Break. After over 40 years, the murder was solved when serial killer Billy Mansfield, Jr. confessed to her murder. by Robin Raven Billy Mansfield, Jr., a 65-year-old convicted serial killer, has confessed toContinue reading “True Crime Sundays: Over Four Decades Later, Serial Killer Confesses To Murdering Teen On Spring Break In 1980”
True Crime Sundays:Virginia Murder Linked To Serial Killer Who Took 10-Year Hiatus
When an Alexandria, Virginia man was murdered in 2013, police noticed an eerie similarity between his death and a crime that happened a decade before by Beth Braden After unsuccessfully trying to fix his kitchen sink, Ronald (Ron) Kirby sat down to wait for a plumber to arrive at his Alexandria, Virginia, home on VeteransContinue reading “True Crime Sundays:Virginia Murder Linked To Serial Killer Who Took 10-Year Hiatus”
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