On Monday, jury selection begins in the sordid Murdaugh family double-homicide trial. Alex Murdaugh, 52, the disbarred South Carolina lawyer embroiled in layer upon layer of scandal and criminal accusations, will face murder charges for the 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their son Paul Murdaugh, 22. …
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His search history — evidence of premeditation, according to an FBI affidavit — was a horror-show: how do murderers not get caught hate crime gay bashing grindr murders using a wig to commit crimes committing crimes with gloves draining blood from body emptying blood in a bathtub how do murderers …
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Usually, that kid clomping down his mother’s porch is a tractor beam of charm. On the South Side of Chicago, where Gangster Disciples shoot the Black Disciples over slights and side-eyed infractions, nobody seems to hassle Calvin Cross — he’s too much fun to be around. He does a thousand …
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UPDATE (11/3): Holden Matthews was sentenced to 25 years in prison, plus three years of supervised released after pleading guilty to burning several historically black churches in Louisiana. Matthews was also ordered to pay $2.6 million to three churches in restitution, $590,246 to St. Mary Baptist Church, $970,213.30 to Greater …
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Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband and suspected murderer of a Connecticut woman who was reported missing last May, was found unconscious at his home following an attempted suicide. Although initial media reports stated he was dead and his family had been notified of his death, his lawyer Norm Pattis told …
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Anna Delvey, the so-called Soho Grifter was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, The New York Times reports. Last month, Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of eight of …
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Hosted by childhood friends Lucy Fitzgerald, Kenyon Laing and Amanda Jacobson, the Wine and Crime podcast, which launched in February 2017, is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a discussion of various true crimes, ranging from the bizarre (think Russian necrophiliacs) to the more serious (an episode devoted to …
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Attorneys for former Smallville actress Allison Mack have filed new documents in Brooklyn Federal Court to support their motion to dismiss criminal charges for her involvement in an alleged “sex cult” within a purported self-help organization known as NXIVM (pronounced “nexium”). In April 2018, Mack and NXIVM founder Keith Raniere …
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