New Analysis Shows Murder Clearance Drop Largely an 'Illusion'
The precipitous decline in murder clearance rates in recent decades is normally taken as a sign of falling police productivity and...
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Jul 12, 20232 min read
Leslie Van Houten Released 50 Years Since Killings
After serving 50 years of a life sentence for her involvement in two murders, Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten was released...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 13, 20232 min read
Utah Mother Jailed Pending Trial On Charges Of Poisoning Husband
Kouri Richins, a Utah mother of three who wrote a children's book about coping with grief after her husband's death and was accused of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20232 min read
Florida Woman Arrested For Killing Her Neighbor In Dispute Over Kids
A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black mother who was fatally shot last week in central...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Murders Down 12% This Year In Major Cities, An 'Astonishing' Drop
New Orleans-based crime analyst Jeff Asher says he has found "strong evidence of a sharp and broad decline in the nation’s murder rate,"...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 1, 20232 min read
S.C. Gas Station Owner Accused Of Murdering Teen Over Store Incident
A South Carolina gas station owner was charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy who he said stole from his store. The teen's killing has...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20232 min read
Virginia Man Charged With Killing NJ Councilwoman In February
The man who authorities believe fatally shot a New Jersey councilwoman outside her home in February was arrested Tuesday in Virginia....
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Crime and Justice News
May 30, 20231 min read
Police Charge Man In Five Arizona Shootings, Four Of Them Fatal
An Arizona man has been charged with five shootings, four of them fatal. Shootings in Mesa, Ariz., left three people dead and one...
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Crime and Justice News
May 25, 20232 min read
Study: Opioid Epidemic Fueled Homicides, Not Just Overdoses
A new study finds that the epidemic of opioid abuse likely made homicide rates worse than they otherwise would have been, particularly...
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Crime and Justice News
May 18, 20231 min read
Idaho Grand Jury Indicts Suspect In Student Fatal Stabbing Case
An Idaho grand jury indicted Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected in the fatal stabbings of four college students in November, paving the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 14, 20232 min read
Idaho Mother Convicted Of Conspiring To Kill Children, Rival
Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, culminating a three-year...
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Crime and Justice News
May 12, 20231 min read
Ex-Marine's Arraignment Due In New York Subway Chokehold Death
Daniel Penny, the New York City commuter who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the subway last week, will be arrested on...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20231 min read
Army Sgt. Gets 25-Year Term For Killing Black Lives Matter Protester
Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed protester at a Black Lives Matter march in Texas was sentenced to 25 years...
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Crime and Justice News
May 5, 20232 min read
Former UC Davis Student Arrested for Stabbing Three In College Town
A former student at the University of California, Davis, was arrested Thursday on charges related to the stabbing of three people in a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20232 min read
Homicide Death Of Homeless NYC Subway Rider Sparks Protests
The death of a homeless man who was placed in a chokehold by another New York City subway train passenger as he experienced an apparent...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20232 min read
Oklahoma Sex Offender Killed 6, Himself, 3 Years After Release
An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed...
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Crime and Justice News
May 3, 20232 min read
Tip On FBI Line Leads To Accused Texas Killer Of Five In Closet
The man accused of killing five neighbors in a rural Texas home was arrested Tuesday after a four-day search. Francisco Oropeza, 38, was...
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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20232 min read
TX Shooting Victims' Family Called 911 Repeatedly About Gunfire
When gunfire began blasting next door in Texas last Friday, waking a 6-week-old baby, several of the 16 people inside Sonia Guzmán’s home...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20232 min read
After Pulling Into Wrong Driveway, Woman Shot Dead Near Albany
A 20-year-old woman was shot dead after she and her friends accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway in an Upstate New York home while...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Florida Man Returns To Prison For Murder After Two-Year Release
Crosley Green's murder conviction and life sentence for the 1989 killing of Charles "Chip" Flynn was overturned in 2018 when a Florida...
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