It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: accidentally causing the death of your own child. That is what Justin Ross Harris claimed tragically happened. He had forgotten his 22-month-old son, Cooper, was in the back of his car all day in the Atlanta heat on June 18, 2014.
True crime lovers should listen to In the Dark. It’s a podcast put out by American Public Media, a non-profit public radio show dedicated to investigative journalism. APM Reports has several interesting podcasts. One podcast, In the Dark, has followed in the footsteps of another exceptional piece of public radio reporting, Serial. Season one of…
The world watched as the lead poisoning and diseases started to spread in Flint, Michigan. Flint has been no stranger to tragedy. It was a once-bustling and beautiful town. Now, it’s more deserted than the city of Detroit. Apparently, Flint also has more corruption than Detroit as well. The problem is a result of the…
What does forensic science have to do with wrongful convictions? Let’s take a closer look at the Jason Baldwin case. He was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1994. He didn’t want to take the Alford Plea Deal in 2011. When it came down to it, Jason had full veto power because the State of Arkansas…
Wrongful convictions cases are more frequent than you can imagine. Let’s take a look at the case of Jason Strong. He was released in 2015 after 15 years in a maximum security prison. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted: the torture and murder of Mary Kate Sunderlin, whose death remains…
There is so much to say about the issue of gun violence and mental health. It’s hard to know where to begin. Nikolas Cruz is the person who allegedly killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018.
White-collar crime is usually not violent. The FBI classifies white-collar crimes as ones that primarily financially motivated. What about when a white-collar crime is committed, and the criminal turns out to be very violent? Sometimes, white-collar crime is a precursor to more violent behavior. Experts in this field have termed it red-collar crime.
Almost three decades ago – in 1991 – Lee Township Grandmother Diane L. Ross was bludgeoned to death in her bed by someone who remained unidentified until this year. That man – or so a jury of his peers believes – was 52-year-old Michael T. McIntyre, who is now wheelchair-bound.
The new Netflix series Mindhunter is a show about serial killers. It is about how the FBI created a behavioral science unit that ultimately gave police departments across the country a way to find the perpetrators of the grisly murders making headlines more and more often in the 1970s.
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