A while ago, Reddit user u/throwaway_district9 asked about terrifying experiences, and a surprising number of people reported having met or almost become the victim of a killer. Here are their stories, along with some from the BuzzFeed Community. 1.“I lived in the same building and rode the elevator frequently with the man who killed a […]
The Government is determined that those responsible for the death of a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon are brought to justice, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said. The Minister for Defence is visiting Beirut to meet Irish troops serving with the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil). Mr Martin will travel to Camp Shamrock to greet the […]
May 18—Federal authorities say a man accused of killing an officer near Tucumcari began his crime spree days earlier — killing a woman in South Carolina, stealing guns from her home and taking a cross-country road trip with a friend in the woman’s vehicle. Jaremy Smith, 33, already charged in the March 15 shooting death […]
A California jury found Scott Peterson guilty of murdering his 27-year-old pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, after a five-month trial in 2004. Over the years, he’s had multiple failed appeals but succeeded in having his death penalty overturned in favor of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. But his latest appeal, […]
TIJUANA, Mexico—You know you’ve screwed up when even Mexico’s notorious drug cartels think you’ve gone too far. That’s what happened to a couple of alleged thieves who are accused of killing a trio of foreign tourists—including an American—who were found dead in Baja California this weekend. U.S. national Jack Carter Rhoad and Australian brothers Callum […]
Landy Párraga shared a photo of the octopus ceviche she ordered at a restaurant minutes before she was gunned down Landy Parraga/Instagram A photo of Landy Parraga as seen on her Instagram A former Miss Ecuador contestant was killed in a restaurant just minutes after she posted an image of her meal to social media, […]
Relatives described convicted capital murderer Jerry Elders as a good guy who loved to have fun and spend time with family in testimony just before the defense closed its case in his trial’s sentencing phase Wednesday. The state is seeking the death penalty after Elders was found guilty of capital murder. He shot a Burleson […]
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a murder authorities weren’t even aware of until they began investigating Fran’s disappearance. Fran’s body has never been found, but prosecutors in […]
Tornado season in North Texas is upon us. From March to May, historical data shows that the Dallas-Fort Worth region sees the most tornadoes. It was also rated No. 7 among large metropolitan areas in the U.S. to have seen the most intense twisters in the past 20 years. In the spring, when warm moist […]
The parents of a Michigan school gunman were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison on Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and James Crumbley are the first parents convicted in a US mass school shooting. They were found guilty of […]
The parents of a Michigan teenage killer are asking a judge to keep them out of prison as they face sentencing for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021. Jennifer and James Crumbley are scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday for the close of a pioneering case: They are the […]
Mourners packed a Brooklyn funeral home on Saturday afternoon to say final goodbyes to 19-year-old Samyia Spain who was fatally stabbed, with her twin sister wounded, outside a deli after she rejected a man’s advances. More than four hundred people filled the Frank R. Bell Funeral Home on Sterling Place near Classon Ave. in Crown […]