Jose Menendez moved from Cuba to the United States where he met Kitty Andersen, former pageant queen. They were married in 1963 and moved to New York City where José earned an accounting degree from Queens College. The couple’s first son Lyle was born in 1968. Erik was born in 1970. Jose Menendez became an […]
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Dan Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and a FSU law professor. He dropped off his two sons at school and then had a quick workout before heading back to his home in Tallahassee, Florida. Markel was heading up the driveway when he got a call on his cellphone. He told the man on the phone
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Whitesburg, Kentucky is a rural community of under 2000 residents. In many circumstances people have both personal and professional connections. Everybody knows each other. Murder is a rare occurrence. Scandalous murder shook this community. On the afternoon of September 19th 2024, the prosecutors say that elected Sheriff Shawn M. Stines walked into the chambers of
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Laci Peterson disappeared in 2002 on Christmas Eve, while eight months pregnant. Her husband of over five years, Scott Peterson, was convicted of her death, it was commuted to a life sentence in 2021. He maintained his innocence. On January 18, 2024, the Los Angeles Innocence Project took Peterson on as a client and filed
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His parties in Hollywood were legendary. His empire immense, his bank account huge. At one time, he was the king of hip hop, one of the early pioneers who took his music and culture and turned it into hundreds of millions of dollars, establishing himself as a true power broker in the world of entertainment.
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Madeleine was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann, her two-year-old twin siblings, and seven friends and their children. Madeleine’s parents are both physicians. Kate is a general practitioner. She had moved briefly into obstetrics and gynecology, then anesthetics. Gerry qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, from Glasgow. Since 2005,
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On April 27, 2008, Vienna, Austria, the world learned the gruesome details of what Josef Fritzl did to his daughter. The story sent shock waves around the world. News report gave details of a quite unimaginable story. For 24 years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In
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On July 15, 2008, Orlando police received the call from Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of the Caylee Marie Anthony:Dispatch: “911, what’s your emergency?”Cindy Anthony: “I called a little bit ago the Deputy Sheriff! I found out my granddaughter has been taken. She has been missing for a month! We’re talking about a 3-year-old little girl!
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James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural community of Crete, Indiana. His father was a disabled World War I veteran. His father’s illness led to financial difficulties, which in turn resulted in intense marital problems between Jones’s parents. Jones grew up in a home which lacked plumbing and electricity. The
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Through the open hatch he saw Lam lying face-up in the water. The tank was drained and cut open since its maintenance hatch was too small to accommodate equipment needed to remove Lam’s body. On February 21, the Los Angeles coroner’s office issued a finding of accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor.
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