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Guess how many stolen guns are out there floating around America? (Hint: its in the millions!)
These are guns that most frequently make their way to the criminal element and are used with impunity because the shooter knows it will be difficult to tie to them to the weapon. Imagine the trouble this causes law enforcement as they try to find the perpetrator of a deadly crime in which a stolen gun was used. There are no sales receipts floating around when guns change hands this way. [Read more…]
Now we have a name. After two agonizing decades, the ‘Boy Under the Billboard’ case I wrote about last year has finally been solved. But in determining the identity of the strangled 10-year-old boy, abandoned under a highway billboard, sheriff’s detectives also unraveled a dark family mystery.
His name was Robert “Bobby” Whitt, a boy with a thick thatch of dark hair who was described as “a precious little boy, so sweet, so kind.” A child who loved to dance with his cousins and play video games and air hockey. His recently located family says Bobby adored his father and was the apple of his grandmother’s eye. [Read more…]
Let’s talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It’s the walk of shame for a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case that’s top of the headlines or soon will be. As police move the handcuffed prisoner from place to place both the public and the media are allowed to be on hand to shout accusations, take photos and videos of the suspected criminal and to ask loaded questions.
Perp walks are known as the crime reporter’s red carpet because police make it so easy, alerting reporters in advance about the time and place of the event so cameras can be at the ready. It’s like a preplanned scene out of a movie complete with uniformed officers, hand and sometimes leg cuffs and a suspect that is usually trying to hide their face in some dramatic fashion. [Read more…]
The landscape has now changed on a story I first began reporting some two decades ago and newly released details demand an update to the sad saga.
Two men have come forward to discuss, in graphic detail, what they say was their years-long sexual abuse at the hands of entertainer Michael Jackson. Their claims spill out in a newly screened four-hour documentary just released at the Sundance Film Festival. The biopic entitled, “Leaving Neverland” will be shown on HBO sometime this spring. [Read more…]
Raymond “DJ Freez” Rowe got away with murder for more than two decades. As a popular fixture on the party scene in and around Lancaster, Pennsylvania he was “the” man to call for music at high school dances, restaurants, clubs and weddings. He was the last person his fans would have suspected in the brutal sexual assault and murder of 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack.
But DJ Freez’s luck ran out when his curious stepsister sought out genealogy information and uploaded her DNA to start searching the family tree. [Read more…]
We talk a lot about sexual abuse and harassment here in the United States. We are a country with a heightened sense of what’s right and wrong when it comes to sex crimes. We are also a nation that preaches to others around the globe about the evils of forced marriage and marriages involving children.
Our State Department has told officials in developing countries that “forced marriage is a human rights abuse and, in the case of minors, a form of child abuse.” So why does our government actually encourage wedlock between girls as young as 13 and men in their 70’s? [Read more…]
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