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The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors
Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.
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Lori Loughlin Faces at Least Two Years in Jail for the College Admissions Cheating Case
Yesterday, Felicity Huffman released a statement confirming she is set to plead guilty in the college admissions cheating case. Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, the two other celebrities named, have not indicated they are pleading guilty yet. But according to TMZ, whether the two enter a plea or let their case go to a federal grand jury, they are set to face years of prison time because of the amount of money they used in their bribes.
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FamilyTreeDNA Says It Will Give Your DNA to the FBI
A popular DNA-testing company seems to be targeting true crime fans with a new pitch to let them share their genetic information with law enforcement so cops can catch violent criminals.
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Francesco Cali, Reputed Gambino Crime Boss, Shot and Killed on Staten Island
The police said Mr. Cali had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and there were reports of a blue pickup truck leaving the scene of the shooting.
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Bay Area police try out controversial AI software that tells them where to patrol
Even the head of a Santa Cruz tech company that sells software to Bay Area police departments admits that using an algorithm to tell cops where and when to patrol raises a host of complicated issues. With the promise of trying to predict crime before it happens, police departments across the United States are experimenting with artificial intelligence programs like the one from PredPol in Santa Cruz.
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The science of serial killers is changing, thanks to Sasha Reid
Despite our fascination with serial killers, little is actually known about how they think and why they develop the way they do. Sasha Reid hopes to change that.
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Chris Watts drove 45 minutes with dead wife and daughters before killing girls, family lawyer says
Frederick, Colo. – Four-year-old Bella Watts pleaded for her life, just moments after she watched her father kill her younger sister "CeCe," according to lawyer Steven Lambert. Lambert, of the Grant & Hoffman Law Firm, represents murder victim Shanann Watts' parents Frank and Sandy Rzucek, CBS Denver reports. The law firm shared new details about the murder with Dr. Phil in an exclusive interview. According to lawyer Thomas Grant, Chris Watts confessed new details to investigators after finding faith in prison. Watts spoke for hours with police on Feb. 18 from a prison in Wisconsin.
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Dozens of Cities Have Secretly Experimented With Predictive Policing Software
The use of PredPol—a predictive policing software that once advocated for a controversial, unproven “broken windows” approach to law enforcement—is far more widespread than previously reported, according to documents obtained by Motherboard using public records requests. PredPol claims to use an algorithm to predict crime in specific 500-foot by 500-foot sections of a city, so that police can patrol or surveil specific areas more heavily.
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Are Criminal Profilers “Any Better Than A Bartender?” Not Necessarily, Suggests Review Of 40 Years Of Relevant Research
The profession of “criminal profiler” is one shrouded in secrecy, even giving off a hint of danger. Yet when the American psychiatrist James A. Brussel began profiling a particular suspect in the 1950s, law enforcement officers were not entirely inclined to trust him. However, it turned out Brussel accurately defined the suspect’s height, clothing and even religion. This spectacular success was the beginning of the profession of the profiler.
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AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
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Inside a 'Making a Murderer' Lawsuit and the Hidden Dangers of TV's True-Crime Craze
The Netflix hit helped launch the current boom in sleuthing docuseries. Now the detective at its center is suing for defamation — and other real-life subjects are claiming emotional distress and worse.
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Are women punished more harshly for killing an intimate partner?
Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for a man she killed when she was 16 years old. This week though, Brown was granted clemency by the Tennessee governor after appeals by her lawyers claiming that she was a victim of sex trafficking who feared for her life. Brown, now aged 30, will remain on parole supervision for 10 years so long as she retains a job and participates in regular counseling sessions.
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Who really killed Pamela Werner? Old Beijing’s most infamous murder
The brutal unsolved murder of Pamela Werner, a young British woman in Beijing (then known as Beiping 北平) in the winter of 1937, is the subject of Graeme Sheppard's new book, "A Death in Peking." Drawing on years of police experience, Sheppard reveals the facts behind the 1937 crime, while also illustrating the extraordinary lives of the people involved, both foreigner and Chinese.
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When Crime Is a Family Affair
Kids have a habit of imitating their parents’ criminal behavior. It’s no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.
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Faith Healing Dad Who Starved Daughter to Death Called Lawyer Before 911
A man who was charged with murder after letting his 10-month-old baby die of malnutrition has admitted to calling his lawyer before calling 911 when we found his deceased daughter. Tatiana Elena Fusari and Seth Michael Welch were charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of their daughter, Mary, just last August. They admitted that they knew she was skinny and sick, but that they didn’t seek help because of “religious reasons.”
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How White Boy Rick Went From FBI Informant To Detroit Druglord By Age 16
Richard Wershe Jr. was arrested in his home in 1988 with 17 pounds of cocaine. He was 17-years-old. Reporters and the police broadcast the young, baby-face all over the news with headlines that called him the leader of a drug cartel. Wershe, the police claimed, was a dangerous cocaine godfather known to his underlings as “White Boy Rick”.
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Lock Them Up But Don't Throw Away The Key: Four Forgotten Historical Crimes Which Resulted In Surprisingly Short Sentences
George McMahon aka Jerome Bannigan was a small time fraudster who attempted to assassinate King Edward VIII in the 1930s. In 1936, King Edward VIII had been inspecting the Trooping of the Colours ceremony in Hyde Park, along with his young nieces, Princess Margaret and the future Queen Elizabeth II. As the King rode back down the Mall on horseback after the ceremony, the would-be assassin forced his way to the front of the watching crowd, with a loaded revolver hidden behind a newspaper.
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Celebgate hacker jailed over 2014 attack
A man who hacked into the Apple iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lawrence, has been sentenced to eight months in prison in the US. The notorious Celebgate hack resulted in nude photos and videos of Lawrence and other celebrities stolen and posted online. George Garofano was one of four people charged in the 2014 hacking scandal.
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The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality
On Sunday 28 April 1996, Martin Bryant was awoken by his alarm at 6am. He said goodbye to his girlfriend as she left the house, ate some breakfast, and set the burglar alarm before leaving his Hobart residence, as usual. He stopped briefly to purchase a coffee in the small town of Forcett, where he asked the cashier to “boil the kettle less time.” He then drove to the nearby town of Port Arthur, originally a colonial-era convict settlement populated only by a few hundred people.
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John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole for 10th Time
John Lennon’s killer has been denied parole for a 10th time and will remain behind bars for at least two more years. Mark David Chapman appeared before New York’s parole board on Wednesday. In a denial decision obtained by The Associated Press Thursday, the board said it had determined Chapman’s release “would be incompatible with the welfare and safety of society and would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.”
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