True crime is booming. Streamers pump out hit true crime documentaries, while cable channels dedicate all their programming to the genre. A legion of podcasters, YouTubers, TikTokers and Vloggers have built audiences of millions. They can do a lot of good, too. Forgotten cases can be rediscovered by citizen journalists, and sluthers committed to finding justice for victims can uncover …
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Christa Pike, who earned her spot as Tennessee’s only female death row inmate by stabbing and beating her classmate to death – then nearly executing an elaborate prison break – was featured on a recent episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Mean Girl Murders.” Now 48, Pike was convicted in 1995 for killing fellow Knoxville Job Corps computer programming student Colleen Slemmer, …
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A Mississippi man, and former Republican congressional candidate, pleaded guilty Friday in connection to the vandalism of a statue of a pagan idol at the Iowa state capitol in exchange for the dropping of a hate crime charge. Michael Cassidy pleaded guilty to an aggravated misdemeanor count of third-degree criminal mischief, the Des Moines Register reported. He was slated to …
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People living and working in Portland, Oregon, told Fox News Digital they hope the ousting of their progressive district attorney will end what they view as a permissive attitude toward crime. “They wanted law and order,” former Portland news videographer Andy Chandler said of voters’ decision. “They didn’t want this kind of hollow, empty gesture concept of law and order …
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The American soldier being detained in Russia on theft charges has lost an appeal Friday for his release, a report says. A court in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok has decided to keep Staff Sgt. Gordon Black in custody, Reuters reported, citing Interfax. Interfax said the 34-year-old Blackappeared in court by video from a pre-trial detention center and …
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Police in Florida have arrested a man in a fatal shooting that injured Auburn running back Brian Battie and killed his brother, Tommie L. Battie IV, over the weekend. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday Darryl Bernard Brookins, 28, was taken into custody and charged with murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm in the Saturday shooting that …
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A British woman and three children linked to the militant Islamic State group in Syria were handed over to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week, Syrian Kurdish-led authorities said Friday. The handover, which took place on Wednesday, is the latest in a push to repatriate people from al-Hol and Roj camps in northeastern Syria that house tens …
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A Turks and Caicos judge on Friday morning issued a suspended 52-month sentence to Bryan Hagerich, a Pennsylvania dad of two and former pro baseball player who pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition on the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). Hagerich, 39, is one of five Americans arrested and detained on the islands since February for having stray ammunition in their …
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Two people were hurt Thursday night after gunfire erupted at a high school graduation ceremony in Oakland, California. Oakland Police Lt. Robert Trevino said officers responded to Skyline High School around 7:45 p.m. local time after reports of a shooting inside the school while graduation was underway. When officers arrived at the school, two victims — a man and a …
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A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to appeal. Lucy Letby, 34, had asked for permission to challenge the verdict after she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year. A three-judge panel of Britain’s Court of Appeal heard the case in April …
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