Jury resumes discussion in trial of officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot a Black motoristA jury resumed deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her…
Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial adjourned after attorney becomes ill
Judge Alison Nathan says she expects proceedings will resume on FridayGhislaine Maxwell’s New York sex-trafficking trial was unexpectedly adjourned early Thursday because an “ill” attorney needed medical care. “I’ve been informed there’s an attorney in…
Michigan shooting: suspect’s parents missing after pair charged with manslaughter
Police in Oakland county hunting Jennifer and James CrumbleySon Ethan, 15, charged with murder over deadly school shootingThe parents of a boy who is accused of killing four students at Oxford high school are missing and being searched for by law enfor…
Ghislaine Maxwell was present when Jeffrey Epstein abused me, accuser testifies
Witness identified as ‘Jane’ alleges Epstein began sexual abuse when she was 14 and says Maxwell was sometimes in the roomPress, protesters, QAnon: the scene outside the trialThe first accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell’s child sex trafficking trial testifie…
Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread
A police narrative of people watching a man rape a woman was ‘not true’, but it still ran wild in the press – similar to a 1964 murder that prompted the ‘bystander effect’The news was horrifying, a parable of inhumanity so grim that it was destined to …
US navy engineer charged with trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets
Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested in West Virginia after nuclear engineer makes ‘dead drop’ to undercover FBI agentA US navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American …
Case of the Zodiac killer takes another twist – but police say it isn’t solved
Police say investigation remains open as former law enforcement members claim to have identified killerThe case of the Zodiac killer took another twist this week after a team of investigators claimed they had unmasked the man who has fixated the public…
When women of color disappear, who says their names?
Coverage of Gabby Petito’s death highlights deep-seated beliefs about gender, race, patriarchy and who deserves protectionGabby Petito was eulogized last week, her father celebrating the adventurous spirit who took her final road trip. To the many peop…
The rise of ‘citizen sleuths’: the true crime buffs trying to solve cases
Inspired by hit podcasts and documentaries, ordinary people are trying to track down fugitives and reopen cold cases. But should they be?Although the story you are about to read involves a fugitive, law enforcement and a six-month chase across Mexico, …
Maryland newspaper gunman gets five life sentences without parole
Shooting at Capital Gazette office in 2018 in which five people were killed was one of the worst attacks on journalists in US history A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences with…