An Australian woman whose mother arranged for her to be raped has urged a court to extend her mother’s sentence as her release date approaches. Peta Butler was 16 when an overweight man with bulging eyes raped her in a Toowoomba hotel room. Butler’s mother, Therese, not only organized the rape but sat outside smoking a cigarette while …
The family of a cruise ship singer found dead in her cabin almost five years ago is fighting police to reopen her case. Jackie Kastrinelis, 24, was found dead on the Seven Seas Voyager near Darwin, Australia, in February 2013. The Massachusetts-native had worked on the cruise ship for two years and planned to audition for …
An adorable German Shepherd was simply too friendly to land a job on the police force in Queensland, Australia, but his cuteness and affability paid off after he landed a career more suited for his personality. Gavel failed out of police dog academy when he was just six weeks old because he was more interested in licking …
A convicted murderer reportedly admitted to saying “Where’s Jesus right now,” to a woman he raped and choked in a Christian bookstore. Two days after killing a 17-year-old schoolgirl in Australia, Sean Price, 33, continued his reign of terror in a Melbourne bookstore. According to the Herald Sun, Price asked the victim if they sold …
A woman who delivered a baby boy on the bathroom floor was convicted of manslaughter on Monday. On June 8, 2014, Jodie Renee Tarnawskyj, 38, went into labor in her Queensland, Australia, home and gave birth to a boy named Oliver. Believing Oliver was stillborn, Tarnawskyj testified that she cut his umbilical cord, wrapped him in …
A mother in Australia sat in a courtroom on Monday morning, facing allegations that she murdered her 3-year-old son in 2014. She’s accused of killing him because “he looked like his dad.” The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the unnamed woman reportedly told police that she killed son because she couldn’t connect with him. She …
