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Texas Man Strangled Sister Because He Was Embarrassed by Her Pregnancy, Cops Say

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Maybe its the time to murder her. Thats the thought that, according to police, popped into Eduardo Arevalos head on Dec. 16 after an argument with his pregnant sister, Viridiana. An affidavit made public on Monday alleges that Eduardo approached his older sister as she sat on the couch in their home in a Dallas suburb called The Colony, crooked his right arm around her neck, and squeezed the life out of her. Then the 19-year-old tossed her in his car trunk, drove to a field, and dumped her body,…

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Saudis Put Khashoggis Murder Behind Them With Death Sentences and a Three-Day Rave

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PARISIt looks like heads will roll in Saudi Arabia, literally, for the murder last year of journalist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the mercurial and malign monarch-in-waiting beloved of the Trump clan. Never mind the CIAs belief that the elaborately choreographed and gruesomely executed murder of The Washington Post columnist could not have been carried out unless MBS authorized it. Conveniently, the two top aides who would have connected the crown prince to the crime reportedly were cleared. The court statementMonday announcing the sentence named none of the five…

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Retired Detective Murdered His Wife to Enjoy Retirement With New Lover: Prosecutors

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A retired Massachusetts detective fatally shot his wifethen staged her murder as a suicideso he could be with another woman and keep his pension all for himself, prosecutors alleged in court Thursday. Brian Fanion, a 55-year-old former Westfield Police detective, pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court Thursday morning to a first-degree murder charge in connection with the May 2018 death of his wife, Amy. Authorities at the time ruled the 51-year-olds shooting death a suicide. Prosecutors said in court. The intimate affair began last March, prosecutors said, stating that…

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Authorities Identify Fly Creek Jane Doe Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start

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On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadnt been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that…

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Is Missing Teen Emanuela Orlandi a Vatican Sex Slave?

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ROMEPietro Orlandi is 100 percent sure that the Vatican knows a lot more than it says about what happened to his sister when she disappeared more than 35 years ago. And he is sure that the Roman Catholic clergy want to keep that secret, like so many others. Emanuela Orlandi, who lived inside Vatican City where her father worked for the Vatican Bank, disappeared June 22, 1983. She was last seen in front of Sant' Apollinare, an Opus Dei church near Piazza Navona in Rome. She had just finished a…

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Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo, Arrested After 40-Year Hunt, Authorities Say

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The notorious Golden State Killer, responsible for 12 murders and 45 rapes across California in the 1970s and 80s, was arrested early Wednesday morning, authorities announced. Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was booked around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said at a press conference. DeAngelo is charged with the murder of Lyman and Charlene Smith in 1980 and is also suspected of killing Brian and Katie Maggiore in 1978, officials said. We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento, said Sacramento County…

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Murder, Cheat, And Fuck Your Way Through Boston

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This feature requires JavaScript to function. It’s a Thursday morning, and you’re sitting around with nothing to do. You had a job, but it exploded, so now you’re stuck here in your boring house. Suddenly, your phone rings. Ignore the phone and go outside to look at parts of the planet Earth. Are you the mailman? Answer the phone. Boston. The diamond in America’s face. The place where a dog died. A sprawling metropolis filled with history, culture, stores, some roads, and a guy who kissed a lady here once.…

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Justice At Last: This Man Spent 38 Years In Prison For A Crime He Didnt Commit, So Now Theyre Letting Him Commit That Crime!

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In July 1977, police officers in Tupelo, MS burst through the front door of Franklin Buck’s apartment and told the confused and frightened 19-year-old that he was under arrest for armed robbery and second-degree murder. Only problem was, he didn’t do it. Now, after spending 38 hellish years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Buck has finally been exonerated! On Monday, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Buck’s conviction, and now they’re finally going to let him rob a gas station and kill the cashier for real. Nice! In…

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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, These Are 25 Trans People Killed, So Far, in 2017

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The year 2017 is already the deadliest on record for transgender Americansand theres still a month to go. According to the Human Rights Campaign, at least 25 transgender people have been killed this year, surpassing 2016s total of 23. The majority of victims were black transgender women. The youngest were just 17 years old; the oldest was 59. Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed every Nov. 20, was created in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to memorialize the victims of these killings. Smith was moved by the story of Rita Hester,…

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