Over the last few months, while many of us were preoccupied with politics and the pandemic, U.S. Marshals bravely carried out a series of nationwide operations which rescued hundreds of human trafficking victims in at least 7 states. These victimized women, runaway youngsters and children had been enslaved into a dangerous and deadly lifestyle by criminals who used their captive’s bodies to enrich themselves. … [Read more...]
The Boy Under the Billboard
Every law enforcement investigator has one. That one unsolved case that preys on their mind and gnaws at their soul. For Major Tim Horne of the Orange County, North Carolina Sheriff’s Department it is the case that’s come to be called The Boy Under the Billboard. It was 20 years ago that Horne first saw the murdered child, discarded by the side of the road at the intersection of Interstates 85 and 40, near the town of Mebane, North Carolina. … [Read more...]