Austin chef and past Top Chef winner Paul Qui was arrested Saturday morning on domestic violence charges. An arrest warrant affidavit says officers responding to a 911 call found his girlfriend weeping with a child in her arms and blood smeared on the walls and floor of his apartment.
In a deeply hideous case out of upstate New York, a 41-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday on child pornography charges; the victim was his 14-year-old daughter. The man posed as a teenage boy to coerce and bully her into sending nude images, and he then began sexually abusing her after faking the suicide of her…
A partner at a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley has resigned from his position, days after a lurid lawsuit was filed accusing him of sexually abusing a woman, then refusing to pay her a promised $40 million in compensation. Michael Lewis Goguen said the suit had nothing to do with his work at the firm, Sequoia…
Fox Sports’ Erin Andrews won an important victory Monday, when a jury awarded her $55 million in a civil suit, which she filed after her stalker secretly filmed her nude in a Nashville hotel in 2008. But that doesn’t mean Andrews will actually get $55 million, or anything close to it.
Christopher Plaskon, 18, pleaded no contest Monday on charges that he murdered classmate Maren Sanchez in 2014. Sanchez was 16 and a junior at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut, when Plaskon stabbed her to death. Sanchez had rejected his invitation to come with him to the prom.
A Colorado woman who cut out a stranger’s baby has been convicted of attempted murder and unlawful termination of a pregnancy, among other charges. Dynel Lane attacked Michelle Wilkins after Wilkins, then 7 1/2 months pregnant, came to her home answering a Craigslist ad offering
baby
maternity clothes.
Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial concluded Thursday, after the defense rested without calling Ghomeshi or any other witnesses. In her closing statements, defense attorney Marie Henein accused all three witnesses of lying under oath.
James Woods has spent the last six months engaged in two very meaningful pursuits: tweeting, mainly about politics—Obama is popular among people on welfare, Bernie Sanders is a “commie scarecrow”—and suing the anonymous Twitter user who called him a “cocaine addict” and a “ridiculous scum clown-boy.” On Wednesday,…
John Feit, an ex-priest, has been arrested and indicted on charges of murdering Irene Garza, a schoolteacher and beauty queen in McAllen, Texas, in 1960. Feit has been under suspicion for decades: as a priest, he heard Garza’s last confession, and something belonging to him was found near her body in the canal where…
Serial subject Adnan Syed is seeking a new trial after being convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee 16 years ago. Before his post-conviction hearing continued on Monday morning, Lee’s family issued a statement making clear that they still believe Syed is guilty, and that both the podcast and the new hearing “have…
Two Virginia Tech students, a man and a woman, are accused of carefully plotting the murder of a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said Thursday. David Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie Keepers, 19, are charged in connection with Nicole Lovell’s death. An anonymous law enforcement source told CNN they believe the motive for the…
Sandra Merritt, one of the anti-abortion activists behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos, turned herself in to authorities in Houston Wednesday. Merritt is charged with tampering with a governmental record; her attorneys had planned a press conference after her court appearance, which they cancelled almost…
Real estate heir and unsettlingly-faced man Robert Durst has pleaded guilty in New Orleans to illegal possession of a firearm. He’ll serve 85 months in federal prison, and will be transferred by the summer to Los Angeles to likely stand trial on charges of murdering his friend and confidante Susan Berman.
Four members of the wrestling team at Norman North High School in Norman, Oklahoma are being charged with raping two teammates on a bus using a foreign object. Prosecutors say the victims were 12 and 16 years old, and that the 12-year-old victim was sexually assaulted a second time in a school parking lot.
Earlier this week, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections removed former cop and convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw from their online system. His mugshot, offense information, and where he’s in custody were deleted, with a DOC spokesperson telling a local news station it was a “security matter.” He has also, as a…
A Wisconsin woman found frozen to death on Sunday morning in Milwaukee has been identified as 21-year-old Elizabeth Luebke. According to reports, Luebke left a house party after having an argument with her friends, venturing outside in shorts and a tank top on a night when temperatures were well below zero.
The Queens District Attorney says a Flushing woman kept two children from Korea captive for more than five years, beginning when they were 9 and 11 years old. DNAInfo reports that Sook Yeong Park, 42, is suspected of bringing the children into the country, then beating them and treating them as virtual slaves.
A female inmate at Rikers Island told the New York Daily News that a correction officer raped her in a padlocked storage room at the prison on November 30. New York City’s Department of Corrections is currently facing a federal lawsuit alleging that female inmates at Rikers are routinely raped by COs.
Sean Shaynak, formerly a math and science teacher at the elite Brooklyn Tech High School, pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping, obscenity, and sexual abuse, among other crimes. Prosecutors say Shaynak sexually abused seven of his female students between 2011 and 2014; the kidnapping charge resulted from taking one of…
Anna Yocca, the 31-year-old Tennessee woman charged with attempted murder for attempting to terminate her pregnancy with a coat hanger, has pleaded not guilty. Yocca is being held on a $200,000 bond and was recently appointed a public defender.
