Teen admits murdering neighbor, 9, ‘because she wanted do know what it felt like to kill’
A Missouri teenager who told authorities she wanted to know what it felt like to kill pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday, telling a judge that she strangled her 9-year-old neighbor with her hands and then slashed her throat with a knife. Alyssa Bustamante, who will turn 18 on January 28, pleaded guilty to second-degree [...]
Gadget Shop tycoon’s wife WILL face trial in Florida over nightclub sex romp claim
Scots tycoon Mary Gorman has been told she must stand trial on drugs and violence charges that could see her jailed for up to ten years. The multi-millionaire wife of Gadget Shop founder Chris Gorman was arrested last year after allegedly performing a sex act on an unknown man in a U.S. nightclub toilet cubicle [...]
Joran van der Sloot
Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States for wire fraud and extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is charged in Peru with the first-degree murder and robbery of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez, [...]
Germaphobe ‘body slams woman who was coughing on his flight’
Patrick White had a serious problem with the woman coughing on his American Airlines flight to Jacksonville International Airport in Florida. The 31-year-old Georgia man spend the plane ride harassing the sick 19-year-old, according to police. Unsatisfied that he had made his point, as passengers were getting off the plane last week, he began calling [...]
Joliet man, 20, allegedly beats mother and leaves her for dead
Bail was set at $1 million this afternoon for a 20-year-old Joliet man who allegedly beat his mother with a baseball bat Monday morning and then left her for dead at their home on the city’s Northwest Side. Joseph P. Conrad is charged with attempted murder and aggravated domestic battery. Read more: Chicago Tribune
Husband accused of strangling UBS wealth manager wife found dead in bathtub
The husband of a wealthy UBS executive who died on New Year’s Eve in 2009 has been publicly accused of murdering her so he could cash in on her estate. Shele Danishefsky Covlin, 47, was found dead in the bathtub at her Manhattan apartment by her daughter with a large cut to her head. Though [...]
Racist Bully
One of the soldiers accused of hounding Private Danny Chen to his death punched and choked his former girlfriend in a sadistic beating in 2001, it has emerged. Specialist Ryan Offutt stripped her and threw her on a bed ‘so hard that she smashed into the headboard.’ The victim told police she believed she ‘was [...]