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Gun violence in Oakland has become a “pandemic within the pandemic.” Here’s what’s going on
On Nov. 28, Oakland recorded its 118th homicide this year — a 22% increase over the same period last year, and the second year of a shocking reversal to a near-decade’s worth of declines to the city’s murder rate. With a month still left in the year, Oakland’s death toll from homicide has already eclipsed every year since 2012 (though it’s still well below the highs of the 1990s).
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Megachurch leader who calls himself the 'son of God' charged with sex trafficking
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy is a close friend of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He is the leader of Kingdom of Jesus Christ church, which claims to have 6 million members.
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Small-city mayor arrested in big revenge-porn case, faces 50 criminal charges
Cambridge, Md. mayor allegedly posted nudes on Reddit with racial slurs in captions.
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'Apostle' arrested for sexually molesting poverty-stricken women
A middle-aged man and his female accomplice who allegedly lured vulnerable women with the promise of help have been arrested in the Eastern Cape.
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Ohio priest convicted of sex trafficking sentenced to life in prison
A federal judge sentenced a priest with the Cleveland Catholic Diocese to life in prison Tuesday after he was previously convicted of sex trafficking and child pornography. Robert McWilliams pleaded guilty to child sex charges in July. According to court documents, McWilliams preyed on minor victims, many connected to churches he was associated with from 2017 until 2019 when he was arrested.
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UK teen sentenced to 35 years for devil-pact double murder
A British teenager who murdered two sisters in a London park as part of a pact he believed he had made with demonic forces to kill women every six months in exchange for a future lottery win has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years.
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Men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse can be called ‘rioters’ and ‘looters’ but not ‘victims,’ judge rules
Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder said "victims" was a "loaded" term and could not be used in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial to describe Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz, who were shot by the teen in August 2020.
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How Iranians came to deal drugs in Japan
In Japan’s underworld of organised crime, there is of course the infamous Yakuza, but there are also foreign nationals, including Iranians. For more than two decades now, they have been dealing drugs…
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Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer
A team of cold case investigators say they have finally identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America's most prolific serial murderers who terrorized San Francisco in the late 1960s.
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‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police
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Los Angeles jurors convict Robert Durst of killing friend in 2000
His friend and confidant Susan Berman was fatally shot in her home shortly before she was going to be interviewed by police.
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Californian man, 79, sentenced to 4 years for charging small businesses and charities hugely inflated prices for printer toner
It was the worst kind of paper jam. A 79-year-old toner salesman was sentenced to four years in prison for running a decades-long, multimillion-dollar scam that caused tens of thousands of small businesses and charities to pay hugely inflated prices for printer cartridges.
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Wisconsin teen sentenced to 20 years for torture death of 7-year-old
A Wisconsin teen was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2018 death of his 7-year-old relative, who prosecutors say was beaten and tortured for not knowing Bible verses. Damian Hauschultz, now 17, pleaded guilty in June to one count of first-degree reckless homicide, court records show. Charges of child abuse and substantial battery were dismissed.
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A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped.
The case against a man accused of murder has been thrown out by a judge after prosecutors withdrew disputed evidence of an AI-identified gunshot sound. Michael Williams, 65, who denied any wrongdoing, sat in jail for 11 months awaiting trial for allegedly killing Safarian Herring, 25.
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The Men Who Sell Football
This documentary reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. The football dealmakers – who link foreign buyers with British football clubs - tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal’s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use “dirty tricks” to deceive the football authorities.
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Man allegedly filmed himself killing grandfather, sent it to family and friends
A man who told police he killed his 94-year-old grandfather made a video of the killing and sent it to family
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Las Vegas murder case cracked with smallest ever amount of DNA
The 1989 murder of a 14-year-old girl in Las Vegas has been solved by using what experts say is the smallest-ever amount of human DNA to crack a case. Stephanie Isaacson's murder case had gone cold until new technology made it possible to test what little remained of the suspect's DNA: the equivalent of just 15 human cells.
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What Explains the Decline of Serial Killers?
Since a dramatic peak in the 1980s, serial killers in the U.S. have been in decline for three decades. Experts have a few theories that can help explain why.
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Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?
Tourists neither commit nor attract crimes. But a study finds that violent offenses rose in neighborhoods where more homes were converted to short-term rentals.
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Why FBI Profilers Mistake Writers for Serial Killers
You might be surprised by how many traits writers share with serial killers. FBI profilers have actually profiled a subject only to discover s/he’s not a killer. S/he’s a writer. Here’s why a profiler might mistake writers for serial killers.
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