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Melissa Was a Prostitute on Craigslist. And Then She Was Gone.
The following is an excerpt from Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker, out now from HarperCollins. The girls grab at the arms or shoulders first. It’s best to start by touching these guys. They’ve spent all night at a strip club, where the women can’t go too...
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In Cluttered Home, a Dark Secret 3 Decades Old
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — There was the night James Nichols introduced himself to his new neighbors on Vassar Road by walking in their front door without knocking. There was the afternoon Denise Darragh asked him to help her with an injured squirrel, and he — still wearing his suit jacket — killed it with a hatchet as the children playing in her yard screamed. And the day she was painting the house, wearing cutoff shorts, and turned around to see him taking photos of her from below with a long camera
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Fifty Years of Murder in America, Mapped
Our fixation on killing this week — justified or not — made us wonder how murder rates in Florida compared to the rest of the nation over time. So we found out. And mapped it. And animated it.
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The Bone Collector
The Coast Guard concluded that four people were probably dead â victims of the frigid Atlantic â but their families never believed it. They kept looking for the lost boaters, scouring the shoreline and islands of Cape Cod Bay, traveling the country on the advice of psychics, and appealing for help in every imaginable quarter.
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A Hollywood Ending - The Story of a Brother's Murder
Mardi Gras in June. That was the noise out the window. Like a spray of firecrackers. A tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-tack midnight burst of joy.
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Inside the Nanga Parbat Murders
In June, 10 mountain climbers were killed on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth tallest peak, when terrorists raided their camp. David Roberts looks into the worst massacre in mountaineering history.
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Daniel Pelka murder: mother and stepfather face life sentences
Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek found guilty of killing boy whose body was likened to concentration camp victim
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John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln… but who killed John Wilkes Booth?
A murdered president. A fleeing assassin. A dead man’s vertebrae. A deathbed confession and a ghastly suicide. A family’s disgrace. Conspiracy theories and courtroom battles. Secret burials and...
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Tourist dies after being stabbed for refusing to stop singing at Thai resort
AN AMERICAN tourist was allegedly stabbed to death by three Thai musicians after he refused to stop singing at a bar in a popular tourist resort, police say.
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Newlywed pushed husband off cliff'
A Montana newlywed has been charged with murder after admitting she shoved her husband off a cliff eight days into their marriage, authorities say. Jordan Linn Graham, 22, appeared in a federal court on Monday charged with Cody Johnson's death on 7 July.
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Quebec doctor who stabbed his kids to death turns himself in after new trial ordered
Two years after being found not criminally responsible for his children’s death, and almost one year after being released from a mental hospital, former cardiologist Guy Turcotte is headed back to prison.
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The Strange Story Of A Washington Man Who Decided To Start Killing Sex Offenders
Prosecutor Deb Kelly recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders, plus time for burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm. “What Mr. Drum has done diminishes us all,” she said. “There is no room for vigilantism. There is no room for what he has done. And no one in authority will ever tolerate vigilantism.
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Montana newlywed Jordan Linn Graham pleads guilty in husband's murder
In a dramatic turn during her murder trial, newlywed Jordan Linn Graham pleads guilty to killing her husband by pushing him over a Montana cliff this summer.
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Michael Bargo becomes youngest man on death row for killing teen
The 21-year-old mastermind of the brutal 2011 murder of a Marion County teenager became the youngest person on Florida's death row today.
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Fugitive wanted for murdering family of three is arrested bloody and bruised 700 miles away from crime scene after a month on the run
Harry Carl Mapps was apprehended Saturday in a raid at the motel room where he was staying in Roland, Oklahoma.
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This Is Danny Pearl's Final Story
The author spent a decade chasing her friend's killer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. Then she went to see him at Guantanamo Bay.
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Zodiac Killer Found? Son Says It was his Dad, Earl Van Best, Jr.
Has the Zodiac killer been found? Author claims it was his father, Earl Van Best, Jr.
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Canada body parts murder trial opens
The trial of a Canadian man accused of killing his lover and sending parts of his body in the post to political figures has begun in Montreal. Luka Magnotta, 32, has pleaded not guilty to five charges related to the 2012 death of Jun Lin, a Chinese university student, including murder.
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Mexico says evidence proves missing students were incinerated
Mexico said on Sunday that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members, although forensic experts sounded a note of caution. Attorney General Jesus Murillo confirmed that one of the students had been identified by experts in Austria from a bone fragment in a bag of ash and bits of burned tire found in a river where drug gang members...
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The Untold Story of the Doodler Murders
At 1:57 a.m. on January 27, 1974, a corpse was found at the water’s edge on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Gerald Earl Cavanaugh, 49, had been stabbed multiple times. His left hand betrayed a defensive wound. His body was, as the coroner’s register put it, “in a supine position” and showed signs of slight rigor mortis. Cavanaugh wore underwear, shoes, socks, pants, a shirt and a jacket. In his pocket was $21.12 and on his wrist a Timex.
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