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Joined August 2013
Natalee Holloway's killer, Joran van der Sloot, was jumped by inmates in a Peru prison beatdown. The Dutch national who brutally killed the 18-yr-old during her class trip to Aruba in 2005, was pummeled in a remote prison, where he boasted of conjugal visits with multiple women.
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Special shout out to the Commonwealth’s murder trial of the century for helping make Agent Brian Higgins “The Bachelor 2025”.
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The Massachusetts Model Jury Instructions & Verdict Slips were drafted by a committee of Superior Court judges. They omitted the option for Not Guilty on lesser included offenses on the verdict slips by design, and not to be spurious. There have been cases where defendants are
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@DAvallone In California, he committed false imprisonment and auto assault both of which are felonies punishable by prison and a lifetime driver’s license revocation.
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Dedham, Massachusetts | Yesterday, on cross examination, defense counsel in the Karen Read homicide elicited powerful testimony about the inverted video footage of her SUV recorded in the forensic garage. Obviously, we all expect accurate demonstrative video evidence in criminal
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Wishing the true crime family a healthy & happy winter holiday. @NancyGrace @DarrylBCohen @CoffindafferFBI @LawyerSchiff @BorghardtLaw @nurmiunchained @TrueCrimeGisela @TedCourtTV @149Zone7 @ChrisCuomo @AllisonRampley @GaryOFreedman @AshleyCourtTV @CourtTV
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The word of the day is “Life”…. in prison without parole. A Florida judge walloped Sarah Boone after a jury convicted her of murdering her boyfriend by suffocating him in a piece of luggage. Peace out Sarah.
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Boise, ID | In all my years of criminal defense, I have NEVER heard of a capital defendant not presenting mitigating evidence during the penalty phase of a murder trial. It makes me wonder whether Chad Daybell wants to die a martyr in the final days. Or, does it make a death
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A Georgia jury broke deadlock & convicted Melody Farris of murdering her attorney husband by firearm & dumping his body atop a fire pit on their land. She will be sentenced to life in prison next month. @CourtTV @MichaelCourtTV @AshleyCourtTV
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Dedham, Mass | Occasionally, True Crime followers happen upon Who Dunnit murders that are open to interpretation and honest debate. A recent evidentiary development has moved me toward dramatic metanoia in the Karen Read matter. Why were free floating glass shards on Karen Read’s
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Orlando, FL | The jury has spoken. Sarah Boone went down on 2nd degree murder for killing her partner Jorge Torres by deliberately locking him in a suitcase until he asphyxiated. To many she is a loathsome unrepentant killer & to others she was a misunderstood battered woman. In
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Dedham, Massachusetts | Karen Read & the defense team should be kicking their heels because they scored big in court today. Juries do not like misogynistic detectives who gun for the underdog. Having said that, after working in the justice system for decades, I think many true
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Dedham, MA | Karen Read is on trial for murder, manslaughter & fleeing a deadly collision & leaving the victim to die in the snow. Did the victim die at the scene from the collision or did a 3rd party kill him elsewhere & dump him in front of a home to die in the cold? Despite
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Here’s a forensic recreation made by @ourx_vault showing how John O’Keefe was killed while picking up a wine glass on Fairview Rd. Personally, I think this is insightful but does not include all locus detail to accurately reanimate the crime. But, even if true to life, at 25mph,
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Whitesburg, Kentucky| District Judge Kevin Mullins was shot to death in his chambers today. Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines is accused of the killing & was taken into custody. No further details were given as the crime is still developing. State troopers announced that the
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Santa Fe County, NM | .I am crying for #AlecBaldwin. Case dismissed with prejudice amid unbelievable Santa Fe County prosecutorial corruption ! (Prosecutors best get ready for state bar disciplinary charges.).Sleep well friend !
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@crimewithbobby Grandpa had better head for the hills because there is no statute of limitations for criminally negligent homicide and it carries 20 years in the state pen. Prosecutors can pursue him for leaving a loaded gun accessible. Just ask James & Jennifer Crumbley.
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Watch your six this blessed Thanksgiving my true crimies.
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Really?? Does either side need an expert to testify that John O’Keefe was scratched by a dog? Is that fact so far beyond the common wisdom, consciousness & experience of lay jurors that they need a paid expert to get on the stand wearing sock puppets & demonstrate a dog scratch
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Joined forces with the inimitable @NancyGrace to unpack (no pun intended) the Suitcase Sarah murder out of Florida. By show of hands, who thinks #SarahBoone is going down like a lumberjack yelling “Timber!”? @CrimeStories @MeritStreet @DrPhil
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Shackling a person who is presumed innocent at trial violates the #Constitution absent a judicial finding of manifest necessity to do so. No matter what the public may think about #SarahBoone (“suitcase murder” defendant in Florida), the law of the Land since 2005 in Deck v.
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Michelle Troconis went down on all counts in Connecticut. She is now a convicted killer. #JenniferDulos #FotisDulos #KentMawhinney #MurderConspiracy #Obstruction #Tampering
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Dashing over to @CourtTV to join Ted Rowlands & the morning crew for a dialogue about accused spousal murderess Melody Farris. Did she take out her attorney husband & turn him into a human barbecue? Or….did someone else do it? Was money, greed, adultery & vengeance at the heart
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Palm Beach County, FL.Let freedom ring for #MarciaThompson acquitted of murdering her viciously abusive ex-husband whom she shot 9 times after he threatened to slit her throat. #BatteredWomanSyndrome #BondIsExonerated #GodBeWithYou #NightmareIsOver #LoveFloridians .(Don’t get
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@rupydhaliwal2 1. Taillight traces in his shirt.2. His hair on her bumper .3. His DNA on her bumper.4. EDR (black box) SUV data.5. GPS data.6. Cellular data points.
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The cost of doing business. Retired ballerina, Ashley Benefield, was sentenced to 20 yrs prison for offing her ex with a 9mm. (Quite a swan song)
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Los Angeles | #BobNewhart, beloved comedian, actor & TV star, died at home from various illnesses at age 94. The twice Grammy award winner for comedy album of the year is survived by 4 children as well as 10 grandchildren. His wife died after a long illness last year. #GreatRun
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Breaking News-Nogales AZ Murder charges against George Kelly are dismissed. The state will not retry the 75-year-old rancher for the killing of a Mexican migrant. God spoke to him and said that all will be well. After 14 months—It is over for the Kelly family. #WasJusticeServed
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@TheDUIGuyPlus The court still has the verdict slips. If the jury reached a “Not Guilty” on any count and checked off the Not Guilty line, then they were not deadlocked and the court would have published the unanimous verdict counts and left the deadlocked count for a retrial. The court can.
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Crime Lab found no canine DNA but did find sus scrofa domesticus (pig), perhaps from lunch or appetizer stains on an unlaundered shirt. For now, no Lassie, Old Yeller or Lady & the Tramp DNA was detected. Let’s see if this becomes a battle of the experts. #JohnOKeefe #Canton
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EMTs perform basic life & some advance support & hospital transport duties. Their reports are boilerplate forms with boxes to check off. They are neutral & do not perform investigatory functions with narrative findings. That is left to police. #KarenRead #EMTsSaveLives
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@ScottJenningsKY Shrinkflation is real. Prices remain but quantity deflates. Thus, consumers get less for their money. It exists with ice cream, chips, nuts, coffee, dried fruit, candy, beverages, home products…just not all brands. To focus on one candy maker’s remonstration is tone deaf.
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Join us tonite on @CrimeStories as a panel of forensic & legal minds unearth the dark @DelphiMurders. Did Richard Allen end the lives of Abby & Liberty or did the Indiana authorities jump to conclusions? @NancyGrace @MeritStreetMedia
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Tomorrow, Karen Read goes on trial before a Massachusetts jury of her peers in a close quarters tribunal for the murder of her cop boyfriend. Will counsel raise reasonable doubt, or will she take the bronze or will the jury deadlock? Buckle up!
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Salt Lake City, UT | Judge Don Torgerson dismissed a $50M state court wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the city of Moab. They alleged that the police conducted a grossly negligent investigation into a domestic violence incident involving Brian
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Dedham, MA | The Karen Read trial just flipped the script from a dry criminal trial to a veritable pub crawl in the Bay State. I’ve never seen such a little thing guzzle so much John Barleycorn in one sitting. Normally, I’d say “so what?” However, legally, she’s way over the
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Joined an all- star panel on Crime Stories. Stephan Sterns will face a death qualified jury for the murder of 13-yr-old Madeline Soto. Jail calls to his parents & video recorded pre-arrest interviews will be the subject of pretrial rulings. Will he get “Old Sparky” (Florida’s
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Resting up for Day 14 of the Eastern Seaboard trial of the century. It’s going to be intense !.#KarenRead #WaterFallBar #CFMcCarthys #JenniferMcCabe
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Now that OJ crossed the rainbow bridge, the question of the hour is: .Will the Browns & the Goldmans finally collect? You know what they say in probate law… Where there’s a Will, there’s a relative. Too soon? The gloves come off !
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By show of cyber hands, how many of you really power off your iphone? Don’t most of us leave it on but silence the ringer ? It seems convenient that a 4 count murder defendant happened to turn his off during the crime window to go stargazing. Or is it just me?
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Truthfully, every new iPhone of mine came with everything transferred over from the old one. Why wouldn’t it ?? #iCloud #Commonwealth .#BrianAlbert #PreservationOrder #Blizzard #KarenRead #JohnOKeefe #Coverup
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Carroll County, Indiana | Joined @NancyGrace as she reports in-court observations of the Richard Allen Delphi double murder trial. The jury will be tasked with weighing 61 incriminating admissions of guilt. Were they a product of free will or confabulation? @MeritStreetNews
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Stoughton, Massachusetts | Former police detective #MatthewFarwell has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the 2-1-21 murder of his pregnant paramour #SandraBirchmore. In May, 2021, the Massachusetts’ Office of the Chief Medical Examiner did her autopsy and determined the
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My 25th anniversary award …. 3 years later. Better late than never. Thank you Mother County.
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Dedham, Massachusetts | Not sure if it’s asthma, a lodged lunch scrap or a neurological tic but since the start of trial I have counted 637 nagging dry coughs coming out of Adam Lally. #Ricola #VapoRub #HeimlichManeuver #MycoplasmaPneumoniae #Endoscope #KarenRead #JohnOKeefe
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For once, I’m somebody’s valentine. Sending hearts & Cupid’s arrow to all.
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In Vinnie’s triad guest box for the Richard Allen Delphi Murder verdict out of Indiana. A sequestered jury will be brought into court momentarily to deliver their verdict on this momentous Veterans Day. Guilty or Not Guilty? @CourtTV @VinniePolitan
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It doesn’t end. Join us tonight. Melody Farris is charged with malice murder of her attorney husband, Gary Farris with a .38 Special & leaving him rotisserie style over a fire pit on the farm. Will a Georgia jury convict ? Is there reasonable doubt? Does infidelity prove murder??
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Big day for convicted double murderess, Susan Smith. Will the South Carolina Parole Board grant her request for parole or make her sit out another stretch for killing her two little boys back in 1994?
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3rd Party Culprit is a tough sell in a criminal case unless the defense has substantial evidence identifying the culprit(s). Telling the jury to “pick a card, any card” will fall flat. Pick a culprit & stick with it. #LawAndCrime #MichelBryant #BobHille #KarenRead #AdamLally
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@NickAdamsinUSA @3YearLetterman @ElectionLegal Might have been more chivalrous to ask about her political leanings before the date.
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Feels like there’s more to the story. The only positive legal news for her is that involuntary manslaughter only carries 18 months. She is young, resilient & able to atone. Her counsel did a fine job. #HannahGutierrezReed #NotAKidAnyMore #JasonBowles #RunAlecRun
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It’s poker time in Orlando, FL. Suitcase Sarah Boone rejected a 15 yr prison offer for manslaughter to avoid a murder trial for suffocating her boyfriend Jorge Torres in Samsonite luggage. Hurricane Milton has delayed jury selection in the region. Should she reconsider, roll the
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I love a good cross. Officer Steve Saraf of Canton Police is getting his tushy excoriated. #PinkIsPretty #JohnOKeefe #KarenRead #AlanJackson
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By show of hands, is Wendi Adelson also on the road to perdition? #HandForOneHandForAll #CaptainGoesDownWithTheShip #FloridaCriminalJustice
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@AP In response, non Israeli supporters will detour their travel plans to other destinations and spend their currency elsewhere.
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The world is now losing acclaimed people in groups of 4. No matter who you are in the universe, you’ve gotta live your life. Pack this turkey ! Joie de Vivre !.#ShelleyDuvall.#RichardSimmons.#DrRuthWestheimer.#ShannenDoherty.#RIP.#Quadriptych
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On verdict watch in the Sarah Boone suitcase suffocation trial out of Orlando, FL. Will the jury convict, split the baby on a lesser charge, acquit or deadlock? You be the judge. @VinniePolitan @CourtTV @PhilipCDube
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Jury service is tough enough even for attorneys who are summoned to serve, let alone for lay people. Imagine attending law school and not being allowed to study the law to prepare for finals. Instead, you have to rely on your memory of the professors’ oral lectures. A former
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A 58 yr old man is on trial for his life after fatally stabbing a teenager & attempting to kill 4 more while tubing at Apple River in the summer of 2022. Murder, Manslaughter, Overreaction or self defense? #NicolaeMiu #CourtTV #VinniePolitan #Wisconsin
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Finally, the turning point. The Commonwealth is peeling back the curtain & showing true colors. Lovestruck or cold as charity? #JohnOKeefe #KarenRead #Murder #Manslaughter #WhiteOut
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The beauty of holding someone’s precious twins is getting to give em’ back.
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@AngelMommy68 Particularly in the justice system, the players have filthy mouths and send vulgar texts as part of everyday existence. No one takes offense because it’s the inculcated and expected vernacular. For Proctor’s brass to flip the script and whipsaw otherwise loyal peace officers.
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Joined Ted Rowlands for a frank exchange about the death of United Healthcare’s CEO. Do New York authorities have their man? Did Luigi Mangione murder CEO giant Brian Thompson? Is it game over? @TedCourtTV @CourtTV @UHC
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Ventura, Calif | A 73-yr-old suspected serial killer from Mississippi, Warren Luther Alexander, was arrested for the 1977 fatal strangulation of 3 women in Ventura County. He was in a North Carolina jail awaiting trial on an unrelated murder charge from 1992 when a cold DNA hit
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No matter what anyone’s political stripe is, shooting a presidential nominee is depraved. #Godspeed #ButlerPennsylvania #Rally #SecretService #Chaos #CrimeScene
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Dedham, Mass | The Commonwealth’s Digital Forensics expert is testifying about cell phone data, search terms, time stamps, data storage & deletions. The testimony is pivotal as it relates to the time of Jennifer McCabe’s Google search about how long it takes to die in the snow.
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#MarciaThompson is on trial for murdering her barbaric heavy-handed so-called husband in Palm Beach County, Florida. She was a battered spouse living with her kids in constant fear & danger never knowing what would trigger another beating. She is a US Customs Official by day and
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Tonight, the world is on the precipice of intensified strife in the Holy Land. Please resonate peace, promote diplomacy & let humanity guide civilization. Making music to stay calm & provide solace. Peace, love & freedom.
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Joran van der Sloot is never getting out. Most people don’t know that the Dutch national who is serving a 28 years for murder in a Peruvian jail has been sentenced to another 18 years for smuggling cocaine into the Juliaca prison. Bye Felicia.
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@ProsecutorsPod The unofficial rule is that juries take 1 hour for each trial day. They are on track with their sleeves rolled up doing the real work now. I say, don’t rush them because they will get through it at their own pace. Plus, the 2nd degree murder jury instruction is more byzantine.
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@robo_vann @Bederowlaw @defense_diaries @lawyerschiff @Nunya9877777 It was a shameful disservice to justice to judicially constrict closing argument for an 8 week trial in such an arbitrary, capricious and menacing manner.
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Showstopper voice mail evidence in the Karen Read Commonwealth jury trial: .“I F-ing hate you !”.“I’m with your F-ing kids!”.“You F-ing pervert!”.“You’re a F-ing loser !”.“Go F Yourself!.#PrimacyRecency #SaveTheBestForLast.#KarenReadIsInTrouble.#GetYourLegalFeesUpFront
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Washington D.C. | No matter what anyone’s political stripe may be, the love & bond of father & son will make history after outgoing President Biden pardoned Hunter for his federal crimes today. @JoeBiden
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The Florida suitcase murder trial is winding down. Did Sarah Boone successfully advocate for herself? Was her boyfriend Attila the Hun? Was she in fear of him or reveling in having the last word? @CourtTV @VinniePolitan @PhilipCDube @TheBadSeed @ClaudeDaigle
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Los Angeles, California | Saddened by the passing of acclaimed journalist #LindaDeutsch who lost her battle with pancreatic cancer at age 80 today. She retired from the Associated Press after an illustrious career as a trial reporter. When Linda first joined the AP in 1967, she
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Alec Baldwin reached a breaking point at a NY City café. Did a jeering tormentor cross a line and have it coming? #Israel #Zionism #Rust #BitchSlap
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28 years ago today, #TupacShakur tragically lost his life after a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. Academics regard him as one of the most influential music artists of the 20th century & a prominent political activist for
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Los Angeles | Multiple arrests were made by the LAPD for the 5-25-24 murder of 37 year old 'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor. While walking to his car with a female coworker, 3 men who were in the process of stealing his catalytic converter opened fire and senselessly
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The Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett's 2019 hate crime hoax conviction today. He staged a lynching which was an alleged publicity stunt. Notwithstanding, the State must honor agreements made with defendants. The State cannot bring a 2nd prosecution when a nolle
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Child Treadmill Murder | 31-yr-old Christopher Gregor is on trial for his life in a NJ courtroom on allegations of aggravated child abuse resulting in the death of his 6 yr old son. He fought the mom for custody to reduce his child support debt when the boy turned 4. From there,
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@CoffindafferFBI The jury question debunks the planting insinuation. If pieces were found early by a neutral agency, the jury will infer that a pedestrian impact happened versus someone having dragged O’Keefe out onto the lawn IMO.
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Goin’ live with #NancyGrace #CrimeStories #MeritStreet .Lots to say about #SarahBoone #SuitcaseMurder
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Melody Farris is on trial in Georgia for shooting her husband of 38 years in the ribs, dumping his body atop a fire pit & setting him ablaze. Does the state have it right? Will her extramarital lover seal her fate? Is there reasonable doubt? @JuliaCourtTV @Kellyhyman1 @CourtTV
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Los Angeles, CA |.Another celebrity went home today. Richard Simmons, legendary fitness guru, died at 76. The LAPD responded to his home after a housekeeper called 911 and reported finding him unresponsive. He appears to have died of natural causes, and no foul play is suspected.
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Hopping on “Vinnie Politan Investigates” to tackle the pending court petition for the resentencing of convicted double murderers Lyle & Erik Menendez. Should they be set free, get a new trial or be resentenced? @CourtTV @VinniePolitan @JoshuaRitterEsq
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