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Authorities have arrested a man suspected of shooting five unhoused men — two fatally — in Washington, D.C., and New York City, NBC 4 in D.C. reports. The Metropolitan Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives made the arrest early Tuesday morning, March 15. The suspect …

Like many Americans his age, 23-year-old Chandler Halderson spent the past year or so living at home with his parents. His father, Bart Halderson, and his mother, Krista Halderson, believed he was working remotely for a Wisconsin insurance company while finishing up his community college coursework from his room, according …

Billy Jensen doesn’t have the kind of insomnia that gives him trouble falling asleep. His is the kind that wakes him up a few hours later, in the dead of night, with questions. Questions about an unidentified woman and three girls found dead in barrels in the New Hampshire woods; …

A woman who served as the getaway driver for the radical organization the Weather Underground has been granted parole after serving a 37-year prison sentence. On Wednesday, the New York state parole board granted early release to Judith Clark, 69, who was arrested in 1981 after driving the getaway car …

When a young man found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky identified himself to police as missing child Timmothy Pitzen, many were hopeful that the sad story of Pitzen, a six-year-old boy who disappeared in 2011 after being kidnapped by his mother, would have a happy ending. But in a …

Nearly 50,000 people who have been convicted of marijuana-related offenses will have their convictions erased or reduced, according to a statement on Monday from the district attorney of Los Angeles County. In partnership with Code for America, a nonprofit tech organization, Los Angeles County will identify decades-old court cases that …

Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots who was recently busted in an Florida prostitution sting, has rejected a plea deal, CNBC reports. Kraft is currently facing two misdemeanor charges of solicitation of prostitution after allegedly being captured on surveillance footage soliciting sexual services at a massage parlor …

The Menendez brothers may not be part of official collectible sets of killer trading cards — which sparked outrage when they were first introduced in 1992 and have continued to be controversial as new editions pop up every few years — but their surprise cameo on an NBA trading card …

It would be an understatement to say that 2018 was a good year for true-crime podcasting —in fact, there’s a bit of a glut in the crime market these days. The soaring popularity of shows like My Favorite Murder, Casefile and Up and Vanished has fired up the imaginations of …

Update: A previous version of this article states that Drayton met the woman in Los Angeles on the dating app Tinder. According to aNew York Times report, they met when they shared a ride from Uber. Last week, Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Danueal Drayton, 27, with sexually assaulting and …