New York prosecutors reportedly said on Wednesday that surveillance footage showing convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s first suicide attempt in July is missing. A lawyer representing ex-cop Nick Tartaglione, who shared a cell with Epstein, 66, at the time of his initial suicide attempt, asked in court to have the footage preserved, according to the New …
One of Southern California’s infamous “Toolbox Killers” died on Friday at San Quentin State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker, 79, died Friday of natural causes, the department said. Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris used implements normally found in a tool box — providing them with their nickname — …
Reporters claimed they spotted ‘steam or smoke’ coming off the side of Lee Hall’s head during his execution
A California inmate who was serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing his cellmate — a transgender woman — after she was housed with him in October 2013. Kern Valley State Prison inmate Miguel Crespo, 48, gagged, tortured, and murdered Carmen Guerrero after just eight hours …
Video released this week shows Jake Patterson, the man accused of kidnapping teenager Jayme Closs and killing her parents, fighting with an inmate who asked him about the case, WBAY in Green Bay, Wisconsin, reported. Patterson is serving a life sentence for the murders of James and Denise Closs in Barron, Wisconsin, and kidnapping their …
Two correctional officers who had been guarding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the night he died have declined a plea deal offered them by federal prosecutors, the Associated Press reported Friday. Although the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan declined to comment, the AP said the news likely means the US Justice Department is considering filing charges …
An Iowa court ruled Wednesday that Benjamin Schreiber did not finish his life sentence for first degree murder just because his heart stopped during an illness and he was resuscitated. The Iowa Court of Appeals was the latest court to rule against Schreiber, who was sentenced to life without parole in 1996, upholding an earlier …
Police in Alabama announced they have apprehended a missing teen girl and a registered sex offender who escaped from prison last week. From AL.com, Bessemer and Hoover police captured John Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow, 16, in Bessemer on Monday morning. Authorities said the pair was taken into custody after they crashed on Interstate 459. …
An inmate who escaped the Morgan County Jail in Alabama on Sunday may be with a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Monday, authorities say, according to WHNT. While they have no confirmation that Kaleb Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow are together, Moulton Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter and Morgan County Sheriff Ron Puckett have …
Convicted killer Jake Patterson apparently got into a fight over Jayme Closs, the young girl he kidnapped last year after killing her parents in their Wisconsin home. Patterson is serving a life sentence for the murders of Barron couple, James and Denise Closs, and for kidnapping their only daughter, Jayme. Officials transferred Patterson from Wisconsin …
Authorities in Georgia are looking for Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez, 31, who was released “in error” from Rogers State Prison in Reidsville at about noon on Friday, according to the state Department of Corrections, which reported the release on Monday. Munoz-Mendez had been serving three life sentence after he was convicted in March 2015 for the …
A California woman who live-streamed the 2017 DUI crash that killed her 14-year-old sister was paroled earlier this month after serving a 26-month prison sentence. Last February, Obdulia Sanchez was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for causing a single-vehicle wreck near Los Banos which killed Jacqueline Sanchez and injured her sister’s …
