The rave reviews and box-office success of American Sniper may have real-life consequences for Chris Kyle’s accused killer, Eddie Ray Routh, whose criminal trial is set to begin on Feb. 11. “The film will be an issue,” Routh’s lawyer, J. Warren St. John, told People this week. “I think any case with significant publicity has…
Lee Vern Cook, a 54-year-old Florida man, has been arrested and charged with a whole boatful of crimes, all of which stem from an incident wherein Cook brought crack to an ICU to share with a patient on Christmas Eve. According to the Crestview Police Department, Lee Vern smuggled some crack and a “homemade”…
Samantha Henson, 26, was at the local Wal-Mart during the event, which aims to develop community ties between police officers and underprivileged citizens. Unfortunately for her, the judge’s sentence was not a Christmas miracle. Check the details inside.
Gary Brennan, owner of the Yankee Spirits Liquor Store in upstate NY, has had the leg lamp in the front window every year since 2002…until this Christmas. And he is as furious as the Old Man in the wake of a Bumpus Hound turkey swiping. Come on in and read about these shady doins.
Dimitri Diatchenko, 46, has been arrested for allegedly killing and eating his ex-girlfriend’s pet rabbit following an argument. He says the whole thing was a big misunderstanding, but wouldn’t produce the rabbit when pressured by reporters. So it’s a real hare-raising situation, out there in LA.
Chalk it up to experience: A Maryland teen was booked on three criminal charges after sharing his pot brownie with his teacher–accidentally–during lunch. No word on whether he finished the brownie before getting caught.
Wahlberg was found guilty of more than one hate crime while a teenager. Now, he’s asking the state’s forgiveness–but not his victims’. Should he have to do more than petition the governor? Check out the details of his crimes and decide for yourself.
Sean Petrozzino, a quadruple amputee who lost his hands and legs to bacterial meningitis, is a “person of interest” in his parents’ murders. Michael Petrozzino and Nancy Petrozzino were found shot to death in their Orlando home.
A University of Oklahoma freshman confessed to murdering his parents and teenage sister in an attempt to receive an inheritance… And what he did between the Thursday murders and Monday discovery of the bodies is even more chilling.
The Texas dad accused of fatally shooting the drunk driver who killed his two sons was acquitted by a jury today, leaving many questions about how the driver died unanswered.
Seven law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are searching for two young Amish girls who were reportedly snatched from their family’s roadside stand in New York. The New York State Police issued this stock photo to show how the girls are dressed.
One psychologist called the case “an absolute fail” for the Albany County Sheriff’s Department, which deemed previous child abuse reports involving the boy were “unfounded.” The boy’s mother (pictured) and her boyfriend were arrested.
As the search continues for the murderer of a 14-year-old Michigan girl, authorities revealed this week that the teenager’s last text to her boyfriend indicates she knew she was in danger. Hours later, her frantic dog led two walkers to April’s body.
As millions of readers and viewers have known for the better part of the last 50 years, Rosemary’s journey makes for one spoooooky story. But, is Rosemary’s Baby based on a true story? The answer is a bit complicated — and proves that truth is really stranger than fiction.
The character of Norman Bates — as seen in Psycho and Bates Motel — is too crazy to be real… Or so you’d think. Actually, the character author Robert Bloch created in the late 1950s is based on a very real, very creepy murderer from Wisconsin.
Two regulars from National Geographic’s Alaska State Troopers were killed by gunfire during a standoff on Thursday. The Alaska governor spoke out about the “brutal” attack today, calling both officers heroes.
Craigslist murderer Miranda Barbour, who stabbed a man she met on Craigslist 20 times, and claims to be a serial killer, but her mother Elizabeth and sister Ashley don’t believe that she murdered more than one person. They sat down with Dr. Phil to expose all the dysfunction going on in their home prior to Miranda’s arrest for murder. Dr. Phil also revealed that two years ago Miranda herself reached out to Dr. Phil for help.
Tuesday night is the series premiere of Investigation Discovery’s latest reenactmentacular true crime series seductively titled Secret Lives of Stepford Wives. The show “features the true story of a housewife whose desire to keep up with the Joneses is matched only by her desperation to sweep her wrongdoings under the rug,” according to the network, and the premiere episode is a real doozy involving a church pianist and Bible school teacher, an affair, Friday the 13th, and a brutal ax murder that has already inspired a book and a movie! Keep reading for the true story of Candace “Candy” Montgomery, who killed Betty Gore with 41 whacks from an ax in 1980 after Betty discovered that Candy (a married church friend) had been having an affair with her husband.
Johnny Cash’s grandniece was found dead inside a wooden box in her own home, Tennessee authorities reported this week. She was allegedly stabbed during an altercation with a friend on Wednesday morning. The local sheriff said the suspect likely planned to hide Cash’s body “for as long as he could.”
A young Pennsylvania woman has been deemed the “Real Life Dexter” after she confessed to killing more than 22 “bad people.” She said she began killing when she joined a satanic cult at the age of 13. She’s now in jail on charges related to the November killing of a man she met on Craigslist.
While AMC’s explosively popular series Breaking Bad was in it’s peak, a man named Walter White was running a meth empire in Alabama. He wasn’t just any meth cook, either, he’s described as a “meth chef” in a new VICE documentary, just like Breaking Bad’s Walter White.
Tonight HBO airs a documentary about some particularly horrifying events that took place in the town of Cheshire, Connecticut on July 23, 2007. Former endocrinologist William Petit’s wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and daughters Michaela (11,) and Haley (17) were murdered during a terrifying home invasion that was supposed to be a quick robbery but turned into a brutal seven-hour torture. Now William Petit is trying to rebuild a new life and keep the nightmares at bay.
I’m not sure if there is a Bank Robber’s Handbook, but if so, 19-year-old Hannah Sabata of Stromsburg, Nebraska must have the old edition that doesn’t include the new chapter on not bragging about your crimes on the internet! York County law enforcement arrested Hannah at her home on Wednesday for her part in a Waco, Nebraska bank robbery and car theft thanks in part to Hannah uploading a video to Youtube announcing she had robbed a bank and stolen a car!
But in an amazing case of not judging a book by its cover, we’ve uncovered some online journal entries written by Hannah that reveal an amazingly horrible past that includes an extended stay at a mental hospital after an attempted overdose and getting pregnant at the age of 17 after contracting AIDS from a carnival worker, only to have her baby taken away before she could even take him home from the hospital. So was this just a huge cry for help?
Back on August 23 cab driver Adam Williams, only 2-weeks on the job, was dispatched to the Hickory, North Carolina Fudruckers restaurant. He was carrying a mere $39 in fare from the evening but that was enough to motivate a brutal stabbing that ended up in the death of the 32-year-old. 3 young men were originally popped for the crime but now the authorities have added two 16-year-old girls as they’ve arrested and charged Consandra Tyree and Emily Starnes with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.
In a horribly sad situation 12-year-old Ramie Marie Grimmer Facebook posted “may die 2day” hours before her mother fatally shot her. She and her younger brother were being held hostage at a Laredo, TX social service office after their mother became upset that they were denied food stamps. While being held hostage young Ramie made updates to her Facebook page including the tragically prophetic one.
Just a heads up to anyone out there who is a friend of Benito Apolinar of Pecos, Texas – if he posts a status update on Facebook, make sure you click “like!” The 36-year-old Benito reportedly showed up drunk at his estranged wife’s house and attacked her because she never responded to his Facebook status update recognizing the anniversary of his mother’s passing.
Horizon City, Texas teenager Ruth Angelica Gomez faces theft charges after authorities claim she fooled her community into donating $17,000 because they were falsely led to believe she was dying of cancer. Read on to find out how she had everyone, even her fiance fooled and what her punishment for the alleged crimes could be.
There is hard core gangsta and then there is hard core stupid. One Anthony Garcia thought he was the former but because of his Jailbreak impersonation he falls squarely in the latter. Garcia is a gang-banger from Los Angeles who has been busted for murder 7-years-after the crime was committed because…
He tattooed the entire murder scene on his freaking body! See multiple shots of the violent and detailed tattoo and get all the back story from this life is way stranger than fiction story.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards has been married a couple times but perhaps the most impactful relationship from her past was with John Collett, a former fiance who was murdered execution-style on the streets of Los Angeles while under investigation for a $150 million telemarketing scam! Keep reading for all the shocking details!
Actor James Farentino is facing charges of misdemeanor battery that occurred at his Hollywood home Sunday evening. Farentino, 72, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $20,000 bail. Find out how the Dynasty star was arrested by the same man he was attempting to remove from his home.
The host of The Food Network’s Calorie Commando and Weighing in, chef Juan-Carlos Cruz, was arrested in Santa Monica, California Thursday after allegedly soliciting homeless people to kill his wife!
Read all the details about the arrest and see photos as well as a video from The Calorie Commando’s television career with links to his website and books on amazon!
Jamal Rashead Trulove (29), who appeared as a contestant on I Love New York 2, was convicted of murdering Seu Kuka in 2007, just weeks after taping the reality show the AP reports. Trulove didn’t make it past the first episode of the show, which was filmed in Los Angeles, he got dismissed for fighting….
It seems that one Wife Swap participant might should of stayed with her new family! Season 2 alum and former Miss Teen New Jersey Jamie Czerniawski has been arrested for stabbing her husband Charles with a knife during a fight in their Freehold, New Jersey home on May 26. Jamie Czerniawski, 30, tells The New…
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