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A Brooklyn man allegedly hurled racial epithets before stabbing black patron, he was having a verbal altercation with, with a fork. Nicholas Melo, 34, allegedly accosted Akbar Salahuddin, 49, and his two female companions, in the Bridgeview Diner in Bay Ridge last November. He used the n-word against Salahuddin and called the women “n—– loving […]
Forty-nine years after Betty Smithey was sent to prison for the murder of a toddler, she’s able to leave a free woman. A woman whom is credited as being the longest- incarcerated female in the United States has been paroled after serving 49 years behind bars. When asked about beginning her road to recovery, 68-year-old Betty Smithey said […]
Jessica Redfield — who was an aspiring sportscaster and a blogger from Texas– just over a month ago she had avoided a shooting spree that killed one person on the site and left a handful of other people wounded in a Toronto mall. On June 5th she posted a blog about the incident and her feelings saying.. “I […]
A Texas teen who was shot to death last month was a victim of her own crime: a robbery gone wrong. 17-year-old Claudia Hidic was found near the back door of a man’s home in Fort Worth on June 28. She reportedly directed two former football stars;Curtis Fortenberry and Terrance Crumley, both 21, to the […]
On March 27, Bangladeshi doctors amputated the leg of Limon Hossain, a 16-year-old student, four days after he was shot during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion , Bangladesh’s elite security force.
The aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game.
A second witness in the Donovan probe is murdered In most ways it was a rather standard gangland slaying. The victim was driving his 1977 Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal.
Corrections and Clarification Appended: February 19, 2008Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13
For a woman dying of cancer, Terry Sanborn didn’t seem to suffer. She and her unemployed husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine
The saying goes that life imitates art. But that’s the last thing you want when you write crime fiction