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Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, pinned George Floyd to the ground on May 25, 2020. The former police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes, causing George Floyd to die at the scene. According to Oxygen, the former police officer seeks to appeal his murder convictions in state court, waiving his right to appeal under his federal plea deal.
As the front woman for Seattle-based rock band The Gits, Mia Zapata was building herself a promising career before she was killed on July 7, 1993. Her killer would walk free for ten years before finally being linked to her brutal murder.
It was the biggest trial of the Cold War. On one end, most American media supported the death penalty that loomed for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But sixty-nine years after the execution, the case may never be settled to absolute satisfaction, and scholars still debate whether Ethel died innocent.
Convictions arrived today for Adam Fox and 46-year-old Barry Croft Jr., who had conspired to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They may receive up to life in prison.
Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado took the law into their own hands in 2012, hunting down and murdering Calvin Sneed, who’d allegedly pimped their teenage daughter. There’s a reason the legal system upholds the principle of ‘innocent until guilty,’ but the fantasy of the hero vigilante is hard to shake.
For the suffocation of her 17-month-old son in 2018, Heather Reynolds of Sicklerville will face life in prison at her sentencing in October.
In 1932, America was electrified by the kidnapping of renowned aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son. The legendary trial to come would launch the true crime genre into the media titan we know it as today.
In a long-fought court decision that disturbed international journalism groups today, Washington has won its appeal to return Assange to the U.S. for his 18 charges of espionage.
Laxami Manochat entered a Bangkok hotel with Shane Kenneth Looker on November 1st, 2014. Five days later, her corpse was recovered from a suitcase in the Mae Klong River.
ABC - Maryland’s highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region. Malvo’s lawyers argue that his punishment goes against a 2012 Supreme Court ruling barring mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders and Malvo should benefit from Maryland's new law enabling prisoners convicted as juveniles to seek release once they've served at least 20 years.
