Crime
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Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother.
At approximately 8:00 p.m. on April 4, eight days after the Academy Awards ceremony, Johnny Stompanato arrived at Lana Turner’s rented home at 730 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills, California, which she had just begun leasing a week prior.
The two began arguing heatedly in the bedroom, during which Stompanato threatened to kill Turner, her daughter, and her mother, as well as making "gangster threats" that involved breaking Turner’s bones and slashing her face with a straight razor.
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Ted Bundy with Carol Bartholomew as he helped with the dishes after a birthday party, 1975
Carol Bartholomew is one of the friends he made when he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1974. She was not one of his victims.
Bartholomew described Bundy as a handsome and polite guy, saying: “I told my parents I was disappointed that he didn’t ask me out because I thought he would be a fun date.”
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Joe Metheny, a serial killer who made his victims into burgers – he chopped them up, mixed them with pork, and served them as burgers to unwitting customers from his roadside barbecue stand in Maryland.
Joe Metheny started out looking for his runaway wife and son, but ended up on a revenge-driven killing spree and turning his victims into cheeseburgers.
When the police arrested Joe Metheny in December of 1996, they expected him to put up a fight. The man was a 500-pound lumber factory worker with a tendency to fly off the handle. At the very least, they expected resistance. What they didn’t expect was a detailed and upfront confession, the brutality of which was preceded by Metheny’s own warning: “I’m a very sick person.”
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A couple’s reaction after being charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse after they refused to get help for their 10-month-old child who died of malnutrition and dehydration.
Seth Welch’s jaw dropped when a Kent County judge informed him on the charges of first degree child abuse and murder held a possible life sentence.
Welch called police on Aug. 2 saying he had found his 10-month-old daughter dead in her crib at the family’s Cedar Springs home, according to court records. The responding officer noted in his police report that Mary Anne Welch’s cheeks and eyes were “sunken into her head.”
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Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.
Investigators said that the illicit relationship began after the boy contacted Vera on Instagram, and they began having sex over the course of nine months.
One fellow student told KTRK that the pair’s flirtation spilled over into the classroom, where the boy once was seen grabbing his teacher’s behind.
Vera claimed to investigators that the boy’s parents knew what was happening, approved of it and let their son stay over at her house and were supportive of her keeping the baby.
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Just moments after news cameras captured this image, Louisiana dad Gary Plauche stepped up to the man who’d kidnapped and raped his young son – and shot him dead on live TV
“If somebody did it to your kid, you’d do it, too.”
On March 16, 1984, Jeff Doucet was led through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in handcuffs. He had just been arrested in California after kidnapping 12-year-old Jody Plauché, bringing him to the West Coast, and repeatedly molesting him in an Anaheim motel room.
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16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded nine others. 1979
The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States.
The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured.
A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings.
Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years.
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Man is released from prison after serving 29 years for murder he didn’t commit
In the summer of 1992, Eric Riddick was 22 years old when he was convicted of first-degree murder in the November 1991 shooting death of his friend, William Catlett.
The conviction was largely based on the testimony of Shawn Stevenson, an eyewitness who told police four different accounts of what he saw but eventually named Riddick as the shooter in his last statement, according to previous appeals cited by The Associated Press. The eyewitness also said Riddick was on a balcony shooting down at Catlett, however, forensic evidence showed the shots were fired in an upward direction, according to an appeal filed by Riddick.
Stevenson later recanted his testimony in a 1999 affidavit, claiming he was coerced by Philadelphia police to name Riddick
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Ismael Zambada Garcia, aka “EL Mayo”, one of the most wanted drug lords in the world, was interviewed at an undisclosed location, somewhere in the Sinaloa’s hills, by the founder of the Mexican magazine, Proceso, Julio Scherer.
This is an extract of the interview, and a picture in which the face of the drug lord can be seen for the very first time since the 70’s.
