Facebook Won't Remove Fan Page for Murderer
Facebook says it won't remove a fan page honoring Raoul Moat —a Briton who killed one person and shot two others before killing himself—despite the objections of British leaders. "It is absolutely...
View ArticleJohn Lennon's Killer Denied Parole Again
It's been 30 years since John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment, and in that time his killer has applied for parole six times. Once again, his plea for release has been rejected....
View ArticlePolice: Boy's Likely Killer 'Cold, Soulless Murderer'
The woman accused of kidnapping 12-year-old Jonathan Foster, killing him, burning the body, and dumping it on Christmas Eve is a "cold, soulless murderer," according to Houston police. Investigators...
View ArticleAre There 2 NY Killers?
The mounting trove of bones discovered on an isolated strip of Long Island beach now has cops wondering if there could be more than one killer operating in the area. The body count is now up to 10 ,...
View ArticleCannibal Killer Gets Life
A German identified only as "Jan O.," who admitted eating the flesh of one of his two teenage victims, has been sentenced to life in prison. The killer, 26, confessed to licking blood from the wound of...
View ArticleKid-Killer Mom Wins Custody of Teen Boys
A Washington mom is horrified that her teenage sons will be living with a stepmother who shot to death her two young daughters. The boys can stay with their biological dad and his first wife, Kristine...
View ArticleAlleged Body-Parts Killer Caught in Berlin
The international manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta ended today at an Internet café in Berlin, where police nabbed the porn actor/alleged killer, sources tell German newspaper Bild . Magnotta, who is...
View Article480-Pound Killer: I'm Too Fat for Execution
Convicted Ohio killer Ronald Post wants a delay of execution because, he says, his scar tissue and 480 pounds of body mass would make lethal injection far too painful, the AP reports. "There is a...
View ArticleSolitary Confinement 'Ruined' Colorado Gunman
The suspected killer of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements had a decent, middle-class upbringing that went downhill after his sister died in a car accident, USA Today reports. Evan Ebel—who died...
View ArticleYoung Couple Arrested After Mother Found in Suitcase
It's no secret that Heather Mack, the 19-year-old daughter of the late jazz composer James Mack, didn't get along with her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack. And now that her mother's body has been found...
View ArticleJohn Lennon's Killer: 'Sorry for Being Such an Idiot'
The man who killed John Lennon got turned down for parole yet again earlier this month, but at least Mark David Chapman seems to realize that he acted like "an idiot" on that December day in 1980,...
View ArticleStudy: This Is the Kind of Man Who Murders His Partner
The kind of man who kills his wife or family fits a pattern, and this new understanding of who commits this kind of murder could help prevent them from happening in the first place. So report...
View ArticleNorway Mass Killer Doesn't Have It So Bad: Appeals Court
Anders Behring Breivik isn't being kept in inhuman conditions after all. An Oslo court had agreed last April with the Norwegian mass killer's contention that his imprisonment was "degrading," mainly...
View ArticleSerial Killer's Push for Freedom: I'm a 'Better Person'
Richard Steeves is 75 years old, plays the piano, and has just one wish in life. But as Bob Hohler details for the Boston Globe , that wish—freedom—is complicated by the fact that Steeves is a...
View Article'Poster Child for the Death Penalty' May Die Sitting Up
Allowing a condemned killer with health problems to partially sit up during his execution next month would be a "reasonable" accommodation, according to a doctor working for Ohio's prison system. Death...
View ArticleAlleged Body-Parts Killer Caught in Berlin
The international manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta ended today at an Internet café in Berlin, where police nabbed the porn actor/alleged killer, sources tell German newspaper Bild . Magnotta, who is...
View Article480-Pound Killer: I'm Too Fat for Execution
Convicted Ohio killer Ronald Post wants a delay of execution because, he says, his scar tissue and 480 pounds of body mass would make lethal injection far too painful, the AP reports. "There is a...
View ArticleSolitary Confinement 'Ruined' Colorado Gunman
The suspected killer of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements had a decent, middle-class upbringing that went downhill after his sister died in a car accident, USA Today reports. Evan Ebel—who died...
View ArticleYoung Couple Arrested After Mother Found in Suitcase
It's no secret that Heather Mack, the 19-year-old daughter of the late jazz composer James Mack, didn't get along with her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack. And now that her mother's body has been found...
View ArticleJohn Lennon's Killer: 'Sorry for Being Such an Idiot'
The man who killed John Lennon got turned down for parole yet again earlier this month, but at least Mark David Chapman seems to realize that he acted like "an idiot" on that December day in 1980,...
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