Convicted pedophile Mary Kay Letourneau, 51, and victim-husband Vili Fualaau, 31, will celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary on television.
In a nationwide sweep dubbed Project Wildfire, about a 1,000 gangsters from 239 gangs in 282 American cities found themselves relocated this spring.
To jail, that is.
A Seattle prostitute blackmailed johns and even threatened them with bodily harm if they didn’t continue paying for her silence.
Surviving Boston bomber bro Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all charges this week, and now faces the penalty phase of his capital murder trial which could see the 21-year-old self-made Islamic militant executed someday.
Convicted Salt Mom Lacey Spears, who was found guilty last month in the second-degree murder of her 5-year-old son, Garnett, has been sentenced for 20 years to life.
Two kidnapped Amish girls sexually exploited in upstate New York will likely be spared the additional trauma of having to recite their ordeal in court, officials hope.
A lawyer for Aaron Hernandez, said in closing arguments that his client was at the scene when Odin Lloyd was killed, but asserted that Hernandez did not commit the murder and was uncertain as to what to do after witnessing it.
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
