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This past Saturday, El Salvador broke its DiMaggio-esque murder streak in what turned out to be the first murder-free day in nearly three years for the Central American country plagued by violent drug gangs. While it’s tempting to say “no big deal” because El Salvador is a country and how many countries go an entire [...]
Jennifer Hopper is the survivor of what’s become known as the “South Park rapes and murder” in Seattle. She wrote and incredibly powerful and brave first-person account of the ordeal for The Stranger. Today, at 38, I find myself craving to have my identity back. I am prepared to have my name enter the public [...]
Rolling Stone digs deep into the tragedy and nightmare of Amanda Knox, the American girl who was coerced into confessing to murdering a wealthy British girl while in Italy. Knox also didn’t realize that she would be judged by her behavior, her looks and her nationality. Nor did she suspect that her faith in human [...]
Trevor Marriott, a former homicide detective in England, posits that Jack the Ripper was a German sailor from Karlsruhe. Marriott says he has used modern policing methods to overturn many of the old assumptions about the Ripper murders and gathered evidence that points to [Carl] Feigenbaum, who was eventually convicted and executed for murdering Juliana [...]
Mother Jones’s Charlie DeLuff examines what went wrong on the morning of May 16, 2010 when a SWAT raid, an A&E film crew and the smoldering death of a Detroit police officer converged in the murder of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old girl. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. It was unlocked. [...]
It’s a given, nay rule numero uno, that you don’t sing Sinatra’s “My Way” during karaoke. And it’s not because it’s a bad song, it’s because the song is so fucking good, believe me when I tell you, that no body can do this song justice. You will fail. Apparently, the people of the Philippines [...]
The title alone makes doesn’t make a compelling story. But what if the woman in question killed her white supremicist-multimillionaire husband because he was planning to detonate a dirty bomb during Obama’s inauguration. Would that peak your interest? Then on January 12, 2009, Wikileaks revealed a confidential FBI field intelligence report on the incident as [...]
Horrible story, but check out the defendent’s name: KENT, Ohio – Murder charges have been filed against the 18-year-old autistic son of a Kent State University professor who was beaten in her home and later died. According to court records, a grand jury indicted Sky Walker on Friday on two counts of murder and one [...]
We all know the story of what happened when John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. The tragic loss of one of music’s most beloved artists. Yoko is asking for people to share their memories or thoughts about John at Imagine Peace. You can do so below or here. I wasn’t alive really to [...]
