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Coping With Unsolved Murders: ‘My Son Speaks from the Grave’
On a Friday night in late June, Glenn Lamont Travers Jr., 21, was in a car leaving an apartment complex in midtown Newport News, Va., when someone opened fire. Travers, the car’s front-seat passenger,...
View ArticleWI Man Gets Life Without Parole for Murders, Kidnapping
Jake Patterson, the Wisconsin man who kidnapped 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdered her parents, was described as “the embodiment of evil” as a judge condemned him to spend the rest of his days in...
View ArticleMissouri Still #1 in Black Homicide Victimizations
For the third year in a row, Missouri has the nation’s highest black homicide victimization rate, with a rate of 46.21 per 100,000, more than twice the national black homicide victimization rate and...
View ArticleSuspect Arrested in Death of Dallas Transgender Woman
Dallas police have arrested a suspect in the slaying of Muhlaysia Booker, a 22-year-old transgender woman found shot to death last month in Far East Dallas, The Dallas Morning News reports. Kendrell...
View ArticleMS Prosecutor Evans Must Decide on 7th Trial for Flowers
A Mississippi prosecutor who has tried and failed six times to send Curtis Flowers to the death chamber must decide whether to try him for a seven time after the Supreme Court overturned his latest...
View ArticleData From Four Cities Point to U.S. Murder Decline
It’s difficult to determine whether murder totals are rising or falling nationwide this year, crime analyst Jeff Asher writes in the New York Times. The FBI’s annual compilation is not issued until...
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Can New NIJ ‘Best Practices’ Solve the ‘Cold Case Crisis’?
James Adcock Earlier this summer, a working group convened by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) concluded a long-awaited effort to develop best practices for addressing what has been one of the...
View ArticleWhy Did It Take So Long to Find Prolific Serial Killer?
Martha Cunningham was found dead near Knoxville, Tn., in 1975. Nearly half a century later, her family learned she was one of scores of people killed by Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer...
View ArticleConcealed Carry Permit Holders Killed 1,335 Since 2007
Concealed handgun permit holders are responsible for at least 1,335 deaths not involving self defense since 2007, according to research from the Violence Policy Center (VPC). “Concealed carry permit...
View ArticleLife Without Parole Term in Brutal PA Killings
Sean Kratz, who was convicted in the brutal 2017 killings of three men on a Pennsylvania farm, was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole after prosecutors dropped their bid for the death...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Syed Appeal in ‘Serial’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider an appeal by convicted killer Adnan Syed, the main subject of the “Serial” podcast, leaving in place a state appeals court decision keeping him in prison for...
View ArticleYoung Teen Suspects in NYC Student Stabbing Death
The deadly stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors as she walked in a park near the school’s campus jarred New York City, recalling an era decades ago when violent street crime was far more...
View ArticleFamily of Slain Barnard Student Blasts NYC Police Union Head
The deadly stabbing of 18-year-old Barnard College student Tessa Majors as she walked in a park near the school’s campus in New York City shocked many in the city, while Majors’ parents criticized the...
View ArticleTeen Arrested for Murdering Barnard’s Tessa Majors
New York police arrested the teen they are “confident” is the boy who stabbed Barnard College student Tessa Majors to death during a botched robbery in Morningside Park, the New York Post reports....
View ArticleNew Video Evidence Surfaces in Ahmaud Arbery Case
Newly released video evidence in the Feb. 23 shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging in a neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga. is shedding light on the apparent systematic injustice and...
View ArticleDeadliest Chicago Memorial Day Weekend Since 2015
Ten people were killed and 38 others wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago — the deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015, when 12 people were killed, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Despite the...
View ArticleGolden State Killer Admits to California Killing Spree
Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and killed more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades, pleaded guilty Monday to...
View ArticleHomicides Decline, But Report Warns Against ‘Complacency’
Homicide rates fell in April and May in most large cities as part of a general decline in street crime caused by restrictions imposed to contain COVID-19, says a recent report analyzing crime for...
View Article‘Anti-Feminist’ Lawyer Blamed for Attack on Judge’s Family
The suspect in fatal shooting of a New Jersey federal judge’s son and the wounding of her husband at the family’s home on Sunday has been identified as a self-described “anti-feminist lawyer” who...
View ArticleKiller of Judge’s Son Had a Dozen Other Possible Targets
A misogynistic lawyer who is believed to have killed the son of a female federal judge in New Jersey had a list of more than a dozen other possible targets, including three other judges and two...
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