Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five young children during postpartum psychosis, remains in a mental hospital and intends to stay there permanently. According to the New York Post, Yates refused a hearing last month to determine her competency for release. Her conviction allows for annual reviews, but she has consistently declined the assessments. …
Notorious wife and child killer, Chris Watts, imprisoned at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, endures a self-imposed torment as he serves a life sentence, The New York Post reports. According to people who have interacted with Watts behind bars, Watts leads a very sedentary lifestyle, has gained considerable weight and has significantly balded. He …
Convicted child killer Susan Smith is allegedly having phone sex with potential suitors as her first parole hearing nears after she was jailed for life for killing her two children in 1995. Smith was 22 when she strapped her two children — Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months — into their car seats and let …
The notorious “Happy Face Killer,” Keith Jesperson, says that his time behind bars has transformed him, and he now vows to never engage in criminal activities again. “Freedom feels so special to me,” Jesperson told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield. “Most (inmates) are angry and want some kind of payback.” Jesperson said that his time in prison …
Newly released body camera footage shows “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell surrendering a laptop and other material related to her case to Maricopa County deputies when she was extradited to Arizona last fall. Vallow Daybell was convicted and sentenced to life in an Idaho prison in July 2023 for the deaths of two of her …
Convicted and deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend — disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving her own prison sentence for helping him procure girls — is writing a tell-all book not to tell all but to “clear her name,” a source close to her tells UK tabloid The Daily Mail.
“She really thinks she hasn’t done anything wrong and that her charges will be dropped when people read it,” the source said.
North Carolina officials announced on Tuesday that the city of Concord will pay a man $22 million after he spent 44 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Ronnie Long, 68, was sentenced to 80 years after being convicted of rape in 1976. Duke Law School Wrongful Convictions Clinic, which represented Long, …
Two cousins who spent 42 years in an Illinois prison for murders they didn’t commit were formally exonerated on Thursday. James Soto, 62, and David Ayala, 60, were sentenced to life for the 1981 drive-by shooting deaths of Julie Limas, 16, and U.S. Marine Hector Valeriano, 18, who were killed during a softball game in …
The body of a man who died in an Alabama prison in April was reportedly released to his family decomposing and without a heart. According to the Moulton Advertiser, Brandon Dotson was considered for parole release the same day he died at Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County on November 16. A federal lawsuit alleged …
