A Brooklyn man allegedly hurled racial epithets before stabbing black patron, he was having a verbal altercation with, with a fork. Nicholas Melo, 34, allegedly accosted Akbar Salahuddin, 49, and his two female companions, in the Bridgeview Diner in Bay Ridge last November. He used the n-word against Salahuddin and called the women “n—– loving […]
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Woman Paroled After Serving Forty-Nine Years in Prison
Forty-nine years after Betty Smithey was sent to prison for the murder of a toddler, she’s able to leave a free woman. A woman whom is credited as being the longest- incarcerated female in the United States has been paroled after serving 49 years behind bars. When asked about beginning her road to recovery, 68-year-old Betty Smithey said […]
Jessica Redfield couldn’t cheat death for the second time
Jessica Redfield — who was an aspiring sportscaster and a blogger from Texas– just over a month ago she had avoided a shooting spree that killed one person on the site and left a handful of other people wounded in a Toronto mall. On June 5th she posted a blog about the incident and her feelings saying.. “I […]
The ‘aspiring actress-turned-thief’ died in crossfire while burglarizing a house
A Texas teen who was shot to death last month was a victim of her own crime: a robbery gone wrong. 17-year-old Claudia Hidic was found near the back door of a man’s home in Fort Worth on June 28. She reportedly directed two former football stars;Curtis Fortenberry and Terrance Crumley, both 21, to the […]
Has Bangladesh’s Elite Police Force Gone Too Far?
On March 27, Bangladeshi doctors amputated the leg of Limon Hossain, a 16-year-old student, four days after he was shot during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion , Bangladesh’s elite security force.
Hitting the Mafia
The aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game.
Message for a Mobster
A second witness in the Donovan probe is murdered In most ways it was a rather standard gangland slaying. The victim was driving his 1977 Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal.
Prosecuting the Gay Teen Murder
Corrections and Clarification Appended: February 19, 2008Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13
The Potent Perils Of a Miracle Drug
For a woman dying of cancer, Terry Sanborn didn’t seem to suffer. She and her unemployed husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine
When fact meets fiction, the cases are harder to solve
The saying goes that life imitates art. But that’s the last thing you want when you write crime fiction