Hate Group: Blood and Honour
Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and political group founded in 1987 with links to Combat 18 and composed of white power skinheads and other white nationalists. The group organizes white power concerts by Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands and distributes a magazine of the same name. There are official divisions in [...]
Convicted child rapist arrested in attempted Arlington kidnapping
A convicted child rapist is back behind bars for allegedly attempting to snatch a 12-year-old Arlington girl off the street on Sunday. Arlington police say the girl was walking in the 18300 block 31st Ave. NE when 24-year-old Fredrick Thurmond grabbed her and tried to drag her into a nearby wooded area. The girl fought [...]
Earl’s son ‘raped girl of 16 after he spiked her Ribena before trying to cover up the offence’
The son of the Earl of Mansfield raped a sleeping 16-year-old girl after spiking her Ribena before trying to cover up the offence with a threatening text message, a court was told yesterday. The Honourable James Murray, 41, had befriended the girl when she was just 15 and truanting from her comprehensive school, a jury [...]
43-year-old man infected with HIV charged with raping 12-year-old girl
A 43-year-old man who is HIV positive was arrested Friday for raping a 12-year-old girl, police said. Matthew E. Atha of the 1500 block of Northgate Road is charged with two counts each of rape and felonious assault, according to the Springfield Police Division. He was taken into custody after semen found on the girl’s [...]
Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, in South Lake Tahoe, California. Dugard was 11 years old at the time and was abducted from a street while she was walking from home to a school bus stop. Searches began immediately after the kidnapping, but no reliable leads were generated. She remained missing for [...]
Josef Fritzl
The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a 42-year-old woman, Elisabeth Fritzl, stated to police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the family home, a condominium-style apartment complex built by her father, Josef Fritzl, and [...]
Paramedic ‘sexually assaulted female patient, 22, as she lay unconscious in the back of his ambulance’
A paramedic has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman as she lay unconscious and strapped to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance. Mark Powell, from North Haven, Connecticut, allegedly assaulted the 22-year-old after she suffered a fall and head injury at a Christmas party. The woman, from Hamden, told officers she awoke [...]
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the [...]
Woman Sexually Assaults Baby, giving it STD
Ashley Stapert was charged Wednesday with child molesting after she admitted that she sexually assaulted her friend’s 6-month-old daughter, giving the child a sexually transmitted disease, police said. Muncie police Capt. Mark Vollmar said Ashley Stapert, 21, told investigators that she and an ex-boyfriend assaulted the infant. A probable cause affidavit indicated that Stapert admitted [...]
Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 women, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River. He strangled them, usually with his arm but sometimes using ligatures. After [...]