The Carlos Diaz Attempted Murder-Arson Case
Carlos Diaz and Cathy Zappata were married in 2007. He worked at W. D. Auto Repair at Tenth Avenue and 207th Street in Harlem, New York. A year later the couple had a son. In 2010 Mr. Diaz lost...
View ArticleThe James D. Willie Murder Case
At 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday May 8, 2012, police in Panola County, Mississippi found 74-year-old Thomas Schlender dead in his 1999 Ford 150 pickup. Shot several times, he had crashed into a...
View ArticleFree Speech Versus the Right Not To Be Threatened
Anthony Elonis, an employee at an amusement park in Allentown Pennsylvania was upset when his wife Tara left him in May 2010. The couple had two children. In October 2010, fuming over his...
View ArticleDiane Staudte and the Power of Poison
In 2012, 62-year-old Mark Staudte resided with his wife Diane and their four children in a modest neighborhood in Springfield, Missouri. The couple met years earlier at a small Lutheran College in...
View ArticleThe Stiletto Heel Murder Case
At four in the morning on Sunday, June 9, 2013 a resident of the Parkline condominium high rise in Houston's upscale Museum District called 911 to report a possible domestic disturbance in an...
View ArticleAlan Randall: Bad People Belong in Prison
During the winter of 1974, 16-year-old Alan A. Randall committed more than a dozen burglaries in and around Summit, Wisconsin, a town of 4,000 in Waukesha County. In January 1975 he broke into the...
View ArticleTeacher William James Vahey: The Life and Crimes of an International Pedophile
In 1970, 20-year-old William James Vahey pleaded guilty in California to child molestation. Notwithstanding the sex crime conviction he graduated from college in 1972 with a degree in education....
View ArticleThree Executions
Edward Harold Schad In 1968 42-year-old Edward Harold Schad strangled a male sex partner to death in Utah. Ten years later, on August 9, 1978, the paroled killer carjacked Lorimer Grove's Cadillac...
View ArticleBrazil's Motorbike Serial Killer
During a nine month period beginning in January 2014, a man on a motorbike in the central Brazilian city of Goiania, used a .38-caliber revolver to shoot 39 people to death. The serial killer...
View ArticleRobert Lustyik: Rogue FBI Agent
Special Agent Robert Lustyik, a 48-year-old assigned to the FBI resident agency in White Plains, New York, was under investigation by various federal agencies for soliciting bribes from a native...
View ArticleThe Kodiak Island Coast Guard Double Murder Case
There are locations in the country where murder, while still shocking, is commonplace and therefore predictable. This is true in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Washington D. C. Philadelphia and St....
View ArticleThe Confessions of Reverend Juan D. McFarland
The Reverend Juan D. McFarland became pastor of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in 1990. Three years later, he oversaw the construction of a new church complex near Alabama State University...
View ArticleThe Student Drug Informant
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst had a 61-officer police department that included a unit that handled drug cases. In the fall of 2012 campus drug cops learned from one of their student...
View ArticleEric Lee Ramsey: Releasing a Violent Criminal From Prison
In 2007, after being convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, an Isabella County judge in central Michigan sentenced Eric Lee Ramsey to five to fifteen years behind bars. The...
View ArticleThe Khaseen Morris Murder Case: Bleeding To Death On Social Media
In 2019, Tyler Flach, a graduate of Long Beach High School on the south shore of Long Island, New York attended Nassau County Community College where he majored in business and music sound...
View ArticleFranc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon: Serial Sex Offenders On Parole
In 1992, 23-year-old Steven Gordon, a resident of Orange County, California was convicted of two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with girls under 14 and 10-years-old. He was convicted and spent...
View ArticleRichard Savage: The Classified Ad Hit Man
In January 1985, Richard Savage, a Vietnam veteran with a criminal justice degree and a brief stint as a police officer, placed the following ad in Soldier of Fortune Magazine: "Gun-For-Hire:...
View ArticleThe Steven Fortin Murder Case: Conflicting Bite Mark Testimony
In 1994, police officers found the body of 25-year-old Melissa Padilla in a concrete pipe along Route 1 near Woodbridge, New Jersey. Naked from the waist down, she had been beaten and sexually...
View ArticleShane M. Piche: The Sex Offender Who Got Off Light
In 2018 Shane M. Piche drove a school bus for the Watertown City School District in upstate New York. For a year the 25-year-old driver had his eye on one of his passengers, a 14-year-girl he had...
View ArticleAbolishing The Insanity Defense
On March 23, 2020, the United States Supreme Court, in Kahler v. Kansas ruled that it is not unconstitutional for a state to abolish its insanity defense. The insanity defense allows a criminal...
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