Emmett Till was lynched 65 years ago, but it has been only three since Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted that her lie got him killed. She copped to what, I’d wager, most black Americans had already figured when she gave a rare interview to Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson, who …
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When the body of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found in August 1986, her death instantly became tabloid fodder. She was young, attractive, and ran with a rich Manhattan crowd — not the kind of person who usually turned up dead in Central Park. Yet when it was discovered that she …
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Rodney Reed is scheduled to be executed for the rape and murder of a Texas woman on November 20th — but a new podcast hopes to save his life. The first episode of the ninth season of Wrongful Conviction With Jason Flom focuses on Reed’s crimes, which new evidence suggests …
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After a weeks-long manhunt, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has found the bodies of two teenage boys wanted for the murder of three people in northern British Columbia, Canada. The bodies of Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were found on the shores of the Nelson River, a river …
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Listen to an audio version of this story below: It was April 2018, and Judy Gelein was seated behind the survivors in Courtroom 61 at the Sacramento County Jail, awaiting the entrance of a man accused of being one of the most elusive serial killers/rapists in history. A suspect believed …
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Well, that was fast: two Stanford University students are filing a class-action lawsuit against Yale, the University of Southern California, UCLA, and a number of other colleges and universities involved in the college admissions scandal. According to the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District …
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Every now and then, Kathy Kleiner Rubin likes to duck into a bookstore with her husband, Scott, and head straight for the true crime section. She’ll scan the shelves until she spots it: a book on the serial killer Ted Bundy. The Stranger Beside Me, maybe, or perhaps The Only …
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For nearly three months, the October 15th disappearance of 13-year-old Jayme Closs, and the murders of her parents, James and Denise, at their Barron, Wisconsin home befuddled local authorities and the FBI. Despite offering a $50,000 reward for information, the Barron County Sheriff’s Department had no suspects and few leads …
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