A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found Monday. George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love after being …
Read More »Missing couple, Stephen and Djeswende Reid, found shot to death in wooded area in New Hampshire
A husband and wife reported missing earlier this week were found shot to death in a wooded area in Concord, New Hampshire, CBS Boston reports. Investigators said 67-year-old Stephen Reid and 66-year-old Djeswende Reid were shot multiple times. The deaths have been ruled homicides. Their bodies were found Thursday evening …
Read More »Frederick Woods recommended for parole over 1976 Chowchilla bus hijacking and kidnapping of 26 kids
Frederick Newhall Woods, one of the three men who hijacked a school bus and kidnapped 26 children in Chowchilla, California in 1976, was recommended for parole on Friday. The recommendation came during Woods’ 18th attempt to earn parole for what has been called the largest kidnapping in U.S. history, after …
Read More »Former Oregon prison nurse charged with sexually assaulting a dozen women in custody
The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment that accuses a former Oregon Department of Corrections nurse of sexually assaulting a dozen women in custody at the state women’s prison. Tony Klein, 37, has been charged with 21 counts of depriving the victims of their constitutional right not to …
Read More »Man pleads guilty to LA home invasion and shooting death of Jacqueline Avant
A former convict has pleaded guilty to the Beverly Hills home invasion and shooting that took the life of Jacqueline Avant, wife of famed music executive Clarence Avant, CBS Los Angeles reports. Jaqueline Avant, 81, was killed on December 1 after 30-year-old Aariel Maynor broke into the home she shared …
Read More »Two of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and on social media, FBI witness says
Two of the three White men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, an FBI witness testified Wednesday in their federal hate crimes trial. FBI intelligence analyst Amy Vaughan led the jury through dozens of conversations that Travis McMichael and William …
Read More »Making a Murderer confession: Wisconsin serial killer allegedly confesses to killing of Teresa Halbach
A Wisconsin inmate has apparently confessed to the killing of Teresa Halbach, whose murder case was documented in the 2015 hit Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” But filmmakers say the confession didn’t come from Steven Avery or Brendan Dassey, who have been in prison for the crime for more than …
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