The convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” may have fled Arkansas after escaping from prison last month, investigators said in a recently released federal court filing. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Little Rock against Grant Hardin was released this …
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Sicilian police said Monday they had arrested a former gravedigger and were investigating 18 others accused of reselling burial sites after removing the corpses already interred in them. The former gravedigger’s assistant was also arrested Monday in the investigation dating from 2023 for alleged corruption and bribery in Trapani, on …
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An American woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a prison in Mexico more than 50 years ago has died in Canada, where she was living under an alias, authorities announced Thursday. Sharon Kinne was charged before her 25th birthday with killing her Missouri husband, her boyfriend’s …
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A Georgia woman convicted of killing her 20-month-old son and dumping his body in a trash bin was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Leilani Simon was spared the maximum punishment of life without a chance of parole. Her sentencing hearing in Chatham County Superior Court came a month after …
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OWATONNA, Minn. — A Minnesota State Patrol trooper was charged Tuesday in May’s crash that killed an Owatonna high school cheerleader and injured five other people. The crash happened at the intersection of 12th Street Southwest and Apache Drive Southwest in Rochester. Documents say Shane Roper, a 32-year-old trooper with eight …
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NEW YORK — The man responsible for the mass shooting in a Brooklyn subway last year will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Frank James, who earlier this year pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, received 10 life sentences plus 10 years on Thursday for opening fire during the …
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A convicted rapist who authorities say used a jet ski during an escape from an Arkansas prison last year was arrested Tuesday in West Virginia, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Samuel Paul Hartman, 39, was arrested along with his wife, his mother and his mother’s boyfriend at a hotel in …
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A longtime suspect in the death of a woman whose body was found in her Pennsylvania home 16 years ago has now been charged with homicide and several other counts. Charles Earl Ream, 53, of Latrobe, was arrested Wednesday and remains jailed without bail. Court officials said there was not …
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A Hawaii man charged with murder in the shooting death of the acupuncturist who was having an affair with his wife wasn’t the only person with a motive to kill him, a defense attorney told jurors at the start of the trial. Eric Thompson was arrested on Valentine’s Day last year …
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One person was shot and killed Tuesday during a showing of a “Transformers” movie at a theater in Washington state, authorities said. Authorities received the call about the shooting at around midnight on Tuesday, the Kent Police Department confirmed in a statement on Facebook. Kent is about 20 miles south …
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