• Area Where George Floyd Died Becomes ‘Police Free Zone’ Plagued By ‘Constant’ Gunfire

    Area Where George Floyd Died Becomes ‘Police Free Zone’ Plagued By ‘Constant’ Gunfire

    The area in Minneapolis around where George Floyd died in police custody has become the site of nightly shootings and drug overdoses as police avoid the area and local officials consider how to restore order. Residents say lawlessness reins at night in the four blocks in South Minneapolis near where Floyd died. Floyd was arrested …
  • At Least 14 Mourners Shot outside Chicago Funeral Home after Service for Previous Shooting Victim

    At Least 14 Mourners Shot outside Chicago Funeral Home after Service for Previous Shooting Victim

    At least 14 people were shot outside a funeral home in Chicago on Tuesday night, in one of the most violent incidents the city has seen this summer. Police told reporters that gunmen began firing from inside a car at people exiting a funeral at Rhodes Funeral Services in Chicago’s Gresham neighborhood. Some attendees were …
  • Man Suspected of Killing N.J. Judge’s Son Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot

    Man Suspected of Killing N.J. Judge’s Son Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot

    The suspect in a shooting at the New Brunswick, N.J., home of federal judge Esther Salas has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to multiple reports. While Salas was in the basement of her home at the time, the gunman killed her 20-year-old son and injured her husband. Salas has presided over …
  • Federal Judge’s Son Killed, Husband Shot by Gunman Disguised as Delivery Driver

    Federal Judge’s Son Killed, Husband Shot by Gunman Disguised as Delivery Driver

    The son of New Jersey federal judge Esther Salas was killed and her husband critically injured by a gunman who attacked them at their home Sunday night, according to multiple reports. The judge herself was not injured but her son Daniel Anderl, 20, died after he was shot and her husband Mark Anderl, 63, is in critical …
  • Why ‘Outcry’s Gaebri Anderson stuck by Greg Kelley after sex crime accusations

    Why ‘Outcry’s Gaebri Anderson stuck by Greg Kelley after sex crime accusations

    Greg and Gaebri Kelley were like a “Friday Night Lights” storyline come to life. The pair started dating after they graduated middle school outside of Austin, Texas, where he was a budding football superstar and she was captain of the dance team. “Back then I was attracted to how passionate he was about sports,” 24-year-old …
  • Bitcoin scammers have reportedly swiped $24M this year

    Bitcoin scammers have reportedly swiped $24M this year

    Scammers and thieves supposedly made off with around $24 million in Bitcoin in the first six months of 2020, according to reports. Twitter bot Whale Alert, which tracks large transactions of cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, worked with Scam Alert to produce a “crime reporting, tracking and analysis” report. Bitcoins, as a digital cryptocurrency, verifies every …
  • Men accused of helping plot Carlos Ghosn escape denied bail

    Men accused of helping plot Carlos Ghosn escape denied bail

    US judge said on Friday two Massachusetts men pose too great of a risk of flight to be released on bail given “spectacular” allegations that they helped orchestrate former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell said US Army Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, had …
  • ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ revival adds a new twist

    ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ revival adds a new twist

    “Unsolved Mysteries” returns July 1 on Netflix with a slate of new episodes. The classic series, most memorably hosted by Robert Stack, aired (in different iterations) from 1987-2010 on NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Spike, using reenactments and interviews to document cold cases involving true crime and the paranormal. The new “Unsolved Mysteries,” brought to life …
  • How Patton Oswalt helped turn his late wife’s book into a true crime series

    How Patton Oswalt helped turn his late wife’s book into a true crime series

    “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” is both an examination of the Golden State Killer case and comedian Patton Oswalt’s eulogy to his wife, Michelle McNamara, who wrote the true-crime bestseller upon which the HBO docuseries is based. McNamara died suddenly in 2016 at the age of 46 from a combination of an undiagnosed heart …
  • Jussie Smollett’s alleged ‘attackers’ now unwilling to testify against him

    Jussie Smollett’s alleged ‘attackers’ now unwilling to testify against him

    The brothers who claimed they were paid to stage an attack against Jussie Smollett are now reportedly unwilling to testify against the actor. Chicago Police allege Abel Osundario and his brother, Ola, were paid $3,500 to jump Smollett in what the actor feigned was a racist and homophobic attack against him back in January 2019. …