Source: The New York Times
CHICAGO — It is considered one of the great unsolved mysteries of American crime: how a seemingly quiet man in his mid-40s hijacked an airliner somewhere between Seattle and Reno in November 1971, then parachuted in his loafers and trench coat, making off with $200,000 in cash.
Source: Neatorama
A policeman's job is never easy, but dumb criminals make it somewhat easier. This list was whittled down from a much longer list of stories of the stupid things lawbreakers did this past year.
Source: Breitbart
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Source: New Zealand Herald - National
These protests should be made only when the facts are known!
Strong evidence would suggest New Zealand police raids justified ...
New Zealand police make a grisly discovery in the boot of a car in Auckland... The body of little "Pumpkin's" mother has been found stashed in the boot of a car outside the family home.
Source: Toronto
Some young punk steals another man's fishing gear while he is dying. I picked this up originally from here: News Hound where the author awards this person the News Hound Scum-Sucking Bottom Feeder Award (first ever). I second that award nomination.
A New Zealand juror received an intimidatory note in a recent kidnapping trial here...
Source: New Zealand Herald - National
The 'P' methamphetamine epidemic continues like a cancerous sore in New Zealand society.
The victim of an alleged bashing by four police officers says he feared for his life when they hit him with batons and squirted pepper spray through vents into a closed cell. Rawiri Falwasser said that after he was soaked with pepper spray, the officers attacked him with batons.
Source: MSNBC
murder case, tragic yet utterly addicting. i am so american.
Source: MSNBC
This story is crazy. About a pizza delivery agent forced to rob a bank and killed by the bomb attached to his neck by the accused forcer, who also later was discovered to have her ex-boyfriend remains in her freezer.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A judge today ordered that Genarlow Wilson be freed from prison, where he has spent more than two years for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
Source: Newsday.com
What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument -- whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes.
Source: CNN
Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.
Source: Think Progress
ABC News ' Brian Ross revealed tonight that the list of customers of an alleged Washington-based prostitution service includes White House and Pentagon officials as well as prominent attorneys.
Source: New Zealand Herald - National
This is one of the worst accounts of assault on such a young woman I have ever read. Unfortunately the paranoia shown by the killer is so typical of drug affected gang members in New Zealand, and I presume elsewhere in the western world.
Source: CNET News.com
Source: AlterNet.org
Black female inmates outnumber white female inmates three to one, and their punishments don't always fit their crimes.
Source: CNET News.com
Four British tourists facing murder charges in Cyprus were kicked and punched at the start of a court hearing yesterday by a group of friends and relatives of the 17-year-old Greek Cypriot victim.