Aaron Hernandez was member of Bloods street gang, according to newly released records
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A death report released Friday lists the Bloods under Hernandez’s “gang profile” and says Hernandez was once disciplined for having “STG” paraphernalia.
Trials
May 5, 2017
Fraternity, 18 members charged in Penn State student’s death
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Eighteen Penn State fraternity brothers have been charged with crimes ranging up to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a pledge who authorities say repeatedly fell down a flight of stairs after he and others were made to run a gantlet of drinking stations guzzling vodka, beer and wine. Beta Theta …
Trials
May 3, 2017
Court Docs: Robert Durst’s 2nd wife helped hide killing of his 1st
Millionaire heir Robert Durst’s current wife helped him cover up what happened to his long-vanished former spouse, new court papers say.
Celebrity Justice
April 25, 2017
Robert Durst’s missing wife told neighbor of brutal beating, threats: Detective
Kathleen Durst has never been found. A New York judge last month declared her dead.
Murder
April 25, 2017
Convicted murderer and rapist utters “I’m sorry” moments before the first U.S. double execution in over fifteen years
Jones was sent to death row for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips. He strangled her with the cord to a coffee pot.
Hate Crimes
April 24, 2017
‘He’s a murderer’: Jewish high school students protest outside home of 92-year-old ex-Nazi
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, students from a Long Island, New York, yeshiva rallied in front of a Nazi concentration camp guard’s home on Monday. The students traveled from Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence to the Queens home of Jakiw Palij, 92. According to the New York Daily News, the nonagenarian is the last known former Nazi camp guard …
Sex Offenders
April 24, 2017
Sister of Tennessee kidnap suspect Tad Cummins: ‘He’s still my brother and I love him.’ Former teacher claims he ran away with teen student to keep her ‘safe’
The sister of former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who was arrested last week after 39 days on the run with 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas, says her brother doesn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. Daphne Quinn, Cummins’s sister, revealed on the Today show Monday morning that she had been in contact with her brother …
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April 19, 2017
Convicted killer Aaron Hernandez commits suicide in prison
Hernandez died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning
Sex Offenders
April 15, 2017
Sexual assault victim SHOCKED when judge calls convicted rapist and ex-Mormon bishop a ‘good man’ during sentencing
Victim: “He only cared about the person he was convicting”
Celebrity Justice
April 14, 2017
SHOCK VERDICT: Aaron Hernandez not guilty in double murder
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink.
Trials
April 13, 2017
Delaware judge convicts girl in fatal school bathroom fight
RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge on Thursday convicted a 17-year-old girl of criminally negligent homicide after a school bathroom fight that left a 16-year-old classmate dead. Family Court Judge Robert Coonin delivered his ruling after hearing a week of testimony in the nonjury trial for three teenage girls charged …
Juveniles
April 8, 2017
Casey Anthony: Tot mom jokes, screams, cries in never-before-seen video footage from jail
Never-before-seen footage of Casey Anthony, aka Tot Mom, speaking to her parents from jail will air Sunday night in the premiere of Investigation Discovery’s three-part series Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery. The premiere episode explores the first shocking weeks of the investigation into her three-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony’s disappearance in 2008 — an investigation …