Darren Seals, a 29-year-old activist and rapper who was a prominent part of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a burning car on Wednesday night. In 2014, Seals held Michael Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden as she wept following a grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the…
True social equality is hard to measure and progress for women can be achingly slow, especially economically. But finally, we’ve done it. We’re here. As of 2016, women are making gains in one crucial sector: bank robbery.
Earlier this week, Alison Dadow was charged with murder in the death of her twin sister Ann after the two drove off a cliff on a winding highway in Hawaii. It was the tragic end to a bizarre tale of yoga, assumed names and alleged scams. On Wednesday, a judge dropped the murder charges against Dadow, but reports say…
On Monday, Richard Huckle, a 30-year-old English teacher, received 22 life sentences for raping and sexually abusing almost 24 children between the ages of six months and 12 years while working in Malaysia and Cambodia. Authorities believe that Huckle actually abused over 200 children.
Christopher Plaskon, now 19, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the stabbing death of Maren Sanchez. Plaskon killed Sanchez in a school stairwell in April 2014 after she refused to be his prom date.
The latest—never the last—horrifying deadly shooting rampage in America was brought to us by Mainak Sarkar, a disaffected former UCLA student who murdered Professor William Klug over an imagined slight. Before killing Klug and then himself, Sarkar also killed his estranged wife Ashley Hasti. While no one was paying…
A Texas man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death in what he claimed to police was a suicide pact gone wrong. After the killing, he posted a photo of the woman’s lifeless body to Facebook, where it remained for 36 hours, even as her family and friends begged to have it removed.
A Japanese pop star is alive but in critical condition after being stabbed some 20 times by an enraged stalker. Mayu Tomita, 20, was attacked by Tomohiro Iwazaki, 27, who reportedly told police he “lost his temper.”
A Pennsylvania woman who was shot and killed by her boyfriend in front of her children managed to record audio of the incident on her phone, prosecutors said. Wesley Webb captured the sounds of Keith Robert Smith attacking and shooting her, evidence which will now be used in his murder trial.
In an attempt to reinstate bail for 21-year-old sex offender Owen Labrie, his attorneys presented a letter from an unnamed professor who compares Labrie to 15th century canonized military heroine Joan of Arc. Wow, so creative!
A married couple living in San Jose were found shot to death in their home Sunday afternoon. A source told the local ABC affiliate a note was discovered written in ink on the hardwood floor beside them: “Sorry, my first kill was clumsy.”
Radio shock jock Anthony Cumia entered rehab not long ago, following a December arrest for allegedly strangling his then-girlfriend in his home. The night of the incident, Dani Golightly broadcast about two minutes of footage from Cumia’s home on Periscope. A longer and much more disturbing video of the same incident…
A Detroit man has been arrested on a laundry list of hideous crimes after police searched his home and found a woman padlocked to a stripper pole by her neck. Ryon L. Travis, 32, is accused of imprisoning four women as well as producing child pornography. He’s responded to all that by claiming U.S. law doesn’t apply…
Each year, the National Abortion Federation, an association representing abortion providers, releases statistics on violence, harassment and death threats against their members. In a normal year, those numbers are depressing and terrifyingly high. But 2015 was not a normal year. It was worse.
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.
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…
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.
