DECATUR — Police on Thursday said the house where an 8-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night is also where someone shot in a July 15 incident lives. Authorities are asking for information about both cases. The Wednesday shooting was at about 11:22 p.m. in the 1100 block of East Division Street. Sgt. […]
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Bomber Harris ‘war crime’ claim included in new English Heritage information
This comes after his statue was added in 2020 to the Topple the Racists website listing monuments that should fall for connections to slavery and colonialism, with campaigners claiming Harris was a “colonial warmonger”. English Heritage has noted that “some have called for its removal”, but as part of […]
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Man arrested after stabbing his roommate, police say | Crime and Courts
Michael R. Brewer Provided LINCOLN TWP. — A LaPorte County man is facing felony charges after he hit and stabbed his roommate on Valentine’s Day, police said. Michael R. Brewer, 65, of Fish Lake, was arrested after police responded to a disturbance at 9:18 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block […]
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel – The Elisa Lam Case explained
Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel explores the strange case of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old Canadian woman who disappeared in January 2013 while she was staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown LA. It’s a very famous case with many theories posited across the internet, which […]
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The French law protecting those who speak funny is a real crime
In the preface to Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making another Englishman hate or despise him.” As of last week, any French citizen who follows suit risks a prison sentence and a hefty fine. While the French electorate (like […]
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how Ireland’s most notorious crime is unsolved after 24 years
Last month, surrender to French authorities was again refused in the Irish High Court. ‘Just put yourself in a situation where, not only are you falsely accused, but you’re falsely accused of a very, very horrible crime, which you have nothing to do with – it is frightening,’ he says. […]
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The Tortured Life And Tragic Crime Of The Only Woman On Death Row
About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman she’d met at a dog show earlier that year. But it was not a pet that she was […]
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Man shot multiple times in targeted shooting at Stoughton bar, police say | Crime
Stoughton Police Department A man was hospitalized after being shot multiple times in a targeted shooting at a Stoughton bar early Saturday, police reported. Stoughton police received several calls of shots being fired at Shakers Saloon, 111 Chalet Drive, shortly after 2 a.m., Sgt. Patrick Frisch said in a statement. […]
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The 20 best true crime podcasts to kill your free time
The best true crime podcasts are the ones that you immediately want to force into other people’s ears. The ones that make you swear out loud to your empty car or a (hopefully) quiet train carriage. The last five years of true crime reporting in both documentary form – thanks, […]