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Veteran “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz has gone digital with his first podcast. In “Motive for Murder,” Mankiewicz takes a deeper dive into the twisty tale of two Houston murders featured on a Friday-night  “Dateline” episode he anchored last November on NBC. The first two “Motive for Murder” episodes, available Thursday, are already #1 on Apple’s …

Did the animated Nostradamus predict the present yet again? In its 30 years on air, “The Simpsons” has proved to be a modern prophet, seemingly anticipating everything from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the “Game of Thrones” finale to Donald Trump’s presidency and Greece defaulting on an IMF loan repayment. Now, fans believe the …

The conviction of a former hip-hop and rap promoter who ordered the killing of a friend of 50 Cent was upheld Friday. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that James Rosemond was properly convicted of murder-for-hire charges. Rosemond was accused of hiring a crew to kill an associate of the rap group G-Unit …

Former Univision star Maria Elena Salinas makes her “48 Hours” reporting debut Saturday (10 p.m. on CBS) detailing the 2018 murder of Binghamton University student Haley Anderson — and the ultimate conviction of her killer. “The way I see it, the types of stories we do in a show like ’48 Hours’ are not morbid …

An auto theft charge was dropped Monday against late Brooklyn-born rapper Pop Smoke, who was gunned down inside a Los Angeles mansion in February, the feds announced in a court filing. Pop Smoke, whose real name is Bashar Jackson, was charged last January with stealing a $375,000 black Rolls Royce that he used in a …

Drew Carey says he’s forgiven Gareth Pursehouse, the man who charged with murdering the “The Price Is Right” host’s ex-fiancée Amie Harwick “After Amie’s murder, I took a week off. Really, I couldn’t function,” Carey, 61, said in a pre-recorded interview on Wednesday with the hosts of “The Talk,” which aired on Friday. When he …

A notorious landlord vanished off the streets of New York City in a sensational, caught-on-tape kidnapping in 2014 — and when his body turned up the next day in a dumpster, cops already had plenty of potential suspects on tap. Menachem “Max” Stark, a 39-year-old Hasidic father of seven from Brooklyn, had made a long list of …

When it comes to OJ Simpson’s suspicions around Carole Baskin, the gloves are off. The Juice himself chimed in on Netflix’s hit docuseries “Tiger King,” joining a growing chorus of celebs and armchair detectives who believe Baskin, a big cat activist and foe to Joe “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, murdered her former husband by chopping him up …