ONGOING CRIME BREAKING NEWS!
Starting on January 31ST, 2025, this thread is about CRIME NEWS as it breaks!
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ONGOING CRIME BREAKING NEWS!
Starting on January 31ST, 2025, this thread is about CRIME NEWS as it breaks!
Cousin Dupree
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At least his wife is relatively ok.
This is so heartbreaking. Decades after Farrah Fawcett's award winning TV show about domestic abuse, and we are still FAR from keeping women safe. 
www.cbsnews.com
Washington mother's final moments captured on horrific 911 call: "He's got a gun!"
Gloria Choi and her friends called Lakewood, Washington, 911 four times in 48 hours to report her being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. Two days later, he ran her off the road and riddled her truck with bullets as she was on the line with a 911 dispatcher.
www.cbsnews.com
Not ready for a thread at this point, but here's a story that might be interesting to some.
Police release sketches of man whose remains were found inside an Arlington home
A little more than two years ago, human remains were found in the basement of an empty home for sale in Arlington, Virginia. Police don't know who they belong to, but now they're hoping for a break in the case. Investigators used the remains to make sketches of the man they hope you will recognize. Katie Lusso at our DC sister station WUSA9 has details.
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Remember Betty? A real War of the Roses character?
Betty Broderick, Convicted of Murdering Her Ex-Husband and His New Wife in 1989, Dies at 78 While Serving Life Sentence
Broderick gained national notoriety after killing her husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena, on Nov. 5, 1989.
Betty and Dan wed in 1969 and shared four children. In the early 1980s, Dan began an affair with Kolkena, a former flight attendant whom he had hired to work as his legal assistant amid marital woes with Betty.
Though he denied the affair following Betty's suspicions, Dan eventually left Betty and filed for divorce in 1985, and the two battled over the sale of their family home and custody of their four children.
Dan had been granted custody, and Betty was given visitation rights. Their court dispute often included their children, which drove Betty into a depression.
Dan and Kolkena married in 1989. Later that year, Betty shot and killed the couple in their bed.
Broderick's first trial ended in a mistrial. Betty was officially convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 15 years to life plus two years for illegal use of a firearm in 1991.
Though she was eligible for parole, she was denied several times.
During an infamous appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show shortly after her 1991 conviction, Broderick was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. The talk show host chatted with Broderick again when she was at the Central California Women's Facility eight months later.
At the time, Winfrey spoke with two of Broderick's kids, Kim and Dan Jr. Both were divided about their mother's punishment.
In 2017, San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Richard Sachs said Betty was "completely unrepentant" and described her as "defiant."
However, Betty claimed that she met the requirements for parole and should have been released years before.
“I have no one to speak for me. This was a case of domestic abuse: a pattern of coercive control that lasted throughout our marriage until the day I killed them,” Betty alleged in a letter to Murder Made Me Famous producers. “Now I am only a political prisoner. They have no reason to deny my parole.”
She was scheduled to be up for parole again in 2032. She would have been 84 years old.
Born in 1947, Betty was raised in a strict Catholic home in Westchester County, just outside of New York City. She often took care of her four siblings and wrote in her 2015 memoir Telling On Myself that her parents had primed her to grow up to be a housewife. After trying her hand at modeling and working at a restaurant and a department store, she enrolled at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in 1965, where she studied English and early childhood education.
Betty Broderick, Convicted of Murdering Her Ex-Husband and His New Wife in 1989, Dies at 78 While Serving Life Sentence
Broderick gained national notoriety after killing her husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena, on Nov. 5, 1989.
Betty and Dan wed in 1969 and shared four children. In the early 1980s, Dan began an affair with Kolkena, a former flight attendant whom he had hired to work as his legal assistant amid marital woes with Betty.
Though he denied the affair following Betty's suspicions, Dan eventually left Betty and filed for divorce in 1985, and the two battled over the sale of their family home and custody of their four children.
Dan had been granted custody, and Betty was given visitation rights. Their court dispute often included their children, which drove Betty into a depression.
Dan and Kolkena married in 1989. Later that year, Betty shot and killed the couple in their bed.
Broderick's first trial ended in a mistrial. Betty was officially convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 15 years to life plus two years for illegal use of a firearm in 1991.
Though she was eligible for parole, she was denied several times.
During an infamous appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show shortly after her 1991 conviction, Broderick was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. The talk show host chatted with Broderick again when she was at the Central California Women's Facility eight months later.
At the time, Winfrey spoke with two of Broderick's kids, Kim and Dan Jr. Both were divided about their mother's punishment.
In 2017, San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Richard Sachs said Betty was "completely unrepentant" and described her as "defiant."
However, Betty claimed that she met the requirements for parole and should have been released years before.
“I have no one to speak for me. This was a case of domestic abuse: a pattern of coercive control that lasted throughout our marriage until the day I killed them,” Betty alleged in a letter to Murder Made Me Famous producers. “Now I am only a political prisoner. They have no reason to deny my parole.”
She was scheduled to be up for parole again in 2032. She would have been 84 years old.
Born in 1947, Betty was raised in a strict Catholic home in Westchester County, just outside of New York City. She often took care of her four siblings and wrote in her 2015 memoir Telling On Myself that her parents had primed her to grow up to be a housewife. After trying her hand at modeling and working at a restaurant and a department store, she enrolled at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in 1965, where she studied English and early childhood education.
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Two arrested in Oklahoma City in death of 9-year-old, charged with murder and neglect
The Oklahoma City Police Department has arrested two individuals in connection with the death of a nine-year-old child on April 10, 2026.On April 8, a nine-year
okcfox.com
Mel70
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I saw that. IMO she should not have been convicted of that serious of a charge. I believe they pushed her over the edge. And 1st degree murderers have gotten less time.
Cousin Dupree
Never underestimate stupid people in large groups
Driver rescinds guilty plea in wrong-way crash into LA sheriff's recruits
A driver has rescinded his guilty plea to charges related to a wrong-way crash that led to the death of a Los Angeles sheriff’s recruit and injured several others who were out on a run.
apnews.com
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and now they have seized his boatCuriousier and curiousier.
Exclusive | Lynette Hooker’s daughter’s cutting response to stepdad after he fled Bahamas — as her search for missing mom begins
“I think it shows his character. He somehow lost my mom at sea and cries on camera saying he’ll never stop searching, then leaves the next day,” Karli Aylesworth told The Post.nypost.com
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Multiple bodies found inside Union Pacific train in Laredo, Texas
Multiple bodies were found inside a Union Pacific cargo train in Laredo, Texas, near the U.S. border with Mexico, according to police. The exact number of people found dead has not been released. The train was found just after 2:30 p.m. Sunday near mile marker 13, near 12100 Jim Young Way...
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Woman held captive in basement for 15 years as a girl says police could've protected her more
A woman held captive in a basement for 15 years by her adoptive parents took her case against the police to court. She escaped by digging her way out of the basement.
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Cousin Dupree
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But I love how it starts the next episode for you!
Mel70
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I watched "The Burning Bed" The night it premiered. I was young. I have watched it since. It is very good. All the awareness since then, resources, this should not be happening.This is so heartbreaking. Decades after Farrah Fawcett's award winning TV show about domestic abuse, and we are still FAR from keeping women safe.
Washington mother's final moments captured on horrific 911 call: "He's got a gun!"
Gloria Choi and her friends called Lakewood, Washington, 911 four times in 48 hours to report her being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. Two days later, he ran her off the road and riddled her truck with bullets as she was on the line with a 911 dispatcher.
Mel70
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How is a house for sale without it being cleaned out and checked?.
Mel70
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I miss TV
Cousin Dupree
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Who Is Eileen Wang? Arcadia Mayor Resigns After Admitting to Being Chinese Spy and Running Fake News Website to Push Pro-Beijing Propaganda
Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, said the case is another example of China trying to influence activities within the United States.
www.ibtimes.sg
Family says missing teen found dismembered and set on fire in Barbour County
The family of 18-year-old Markavious Rumph says their desperate search for the missing teen ended in horror when his parents found his body in a wooded area in Barbour County.His family says Markavious was last seen May 7 after leaving with a friend. When he did not return to his grandmother’s home in Eufaula, they reported him missing and began searching on their own after hearing troubling information from the community.
The family says Markavious had been shot, dismembered, and set on fire. Investigators have not released an official cause of death.
“I looked for five days for my son, with no help from the Eufaula Police Department,” his mother, Yolanda Wynn, said through tears. “Me and my family in the rain on Mother’s Day, I walked through those woods.”
Now, she wants justice.
“But they gotta pay. I want everybody that’s involved to pay for my son. Everybody.”
Markavious’s father, Marcus Rumph, says the pain is impossible to put into words.
“They basically burned my baby, shot my baby, burned him up and chopped him up,” Rumph said. “I’m dealing with it the best I can right now.”
The family says they believe people known to Markavious may be responsible, but WRBL is not naming anyone because police have not publicly identified suspects or persons of interest.
Woman, 28, Allegedly Posed as Teen at Bronx High School
A 28-year-old allegedly enrolled at a Bronx high school as a teen before staff uncovered her real age through Facebook.
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28-Year-Old Allegedly Posed as Teen Girl to Attend Bronx High School
A 28-year-old woman accused of posing as a teenager and secretly enrolling at a Bronx, New York, high school was exposed after the school’s principal pulled up her Facebook page. That Facebook revealed her real age, birthday and even photos referencing a daughter.According to a criminal complaint, Kacy Claassen enrolled at Westchester Square Academy on April 13 under the fake name “Shamara Rashad” and allegedly claimed she was born in 2010, making her 16 years old.
Officials say Claassen told school officials she had recently moved to New York City from Ohio with her sister and was issued a student ID before attending classes for roughly two weeks before her alleged cover was blown.
Claassen reportedly admitted her real identity after being confronted. Prosecutors say she told investigators a friend encouraged her to lie so she could potentially obtain additional public assistance benefits. It’s not exactly clear how the alleged benefits scheme would have worked. However, officials have now warned about various forms of “ghost student” fraud in recent years, in which individuals allegedly use fake or stolen identities to improperly obtain financial aid, benefits or services through education.