Attorneys for Aaron Hernandez have formally requested that a Massachusetts court vacate his 2015 murder conviction, ESPN reports. According to an archaic state law, a murder conviction can be dismissed if the case is still incomplete at the time of the suspect’s death. Hernandez’s 2015 murder conviction was pending appeal when he was found dead …
A psychologically troubled inmate in Sheriff David Clark’s Milwaukee County Jail made it clear to prison staff that he was desperate for water, prosecutors say, but the staff ignored his pleas and let him die of dehydration. As Crime Online previously reported, Terrill Thomas died on April 24, 2016, while in solitary confinement at the Milwaukee …
An 8-year-old Chicago girl managed to fight off a man who knocked her off her bike and tried to abduct her. WLS-TV reported that the girl was playing outside of her grandmother’s house Sunday afternoon when the incident occurred. The unidentified man is said to have pushed her off her bike and threw a bag …
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The Massachusetts maximum security prison where Aaron Hernandez took his own life last week is on lockdown as investigators probe the former NFL star’s death in addition to other, unspecified issues at the prison. According to the Boston Globe, Daniel Bennett, Massachusetts’s top public safety officer, objected in court on Monday to a request that …
Former Bachelor Chris Soules was arrested Monday night after he allegedly fled the scene of a deadly accident. According to TMZ, Soules is in custody in his home state of Iowa after “allegedly slamming into a tractor … killing the driver and then fleeing the scene.” The 35-year-old was reportedly driving a Chevy truck when …
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.
A woman claimed a United Airlines employee moved her from business to economy for no reason and called her a “c**t” during the ordeal, according to a new lawsuit. Karen Shiboleth, 24, alleged the incident occurred during a September flight from Newark, New Jersey, to London. Shiboleth said she originally paid $1,498.90 for a window seat in economy before using 60,000 …
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 …
Police are investigating a video of an Aurora, Colorado, high school girl being bullied that went viral last Thursday after a concerned mom uploaded the footage to social media. KDVR reported that Lainey, 15, claimed that Gateway High School students have persecuted her for the past four months. The videos, uploaded to Facebook by Amanda Brown, the …
The attorney who helped acquit Aaron Hernandez of double murder just days before the former NFL star hung himself in his prison cell says that a widely circulated story about a suicide note addressed to a purported prison boyfriend is not true. Defense attorney Jose Baez told TMZ on Monday that reports claiming Hernandez left …
Tad Cummins, the former teacher accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old student, Elizabeth Thomas, reportedly bought a small watercraft and had plans to sneak into Mexico with the teen. A new motion filed on Monday against Cummins states that the 50-year-old planned to go to San Diego and use the watercraft to transport himself and Elizabeth …
