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September 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.

Investigators said that the illicit relationship began after the boy contacted Vera on Instagram, and they began having sex over the course of nine months.

One fellow student told KTRK that the pair’s flirtation spilled over into the classroom, where the boy once was seen grabbing his teacher’s behind.

Vera claimed to investigators that the boy’s parents knew what was happening, approved of it and let their son stay over at her house and were supportive of her keeping the baby.

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August 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

Just moments after news cameras captured this image, Louisiana dad Gary Plauche stepped up to the man who’d kidnapped and raped his young son – and shot him dead on live TV

“If somebody did it to your kid, you’d do it, too.”

On March 16, 1984, Jeff Doucet was led through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in handcuffs. He had just been arrested in California after kidnapping 12-year-old Jody Plauché, bringing him to the West Coast, and repeatedly molesting him in an Anaheim motel room.

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August 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded nine others. 1979

The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States.

The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured.

A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings.

Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years.

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August 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

Recipes found in a prisoner’s cell

Popcorn Supreme

1 (8oz) bag microwave popcorn
2 (8oz) bags caramels
3oz honey (one fourth of 12oz bottle)
2 scoops peanut butter

Pop popcorn, set aside in medium bowl, place caramels and a little water and heat for 30 seconds at a time until melted. Add honey and peanut butter, heat for one minute and stir. Put popcorn on plate or plastic bags and drizzle mixture on popcorn.

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June 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

Man is released from prison after serving 29 years for murder he didn’t commit

In the summer of 1992, Eric Riddick was 22 years old when he was convicted of first-degree murder in the November 1991 shooting death of his friend, William Catlett.

The conviction was largely based on the testimony of Shawn Stevenson, an eyewitness who told police four different accounts of what he saw but eventually named Riddick as the shooter in his last statement, according to previous appeals cited by The Associated Press. The eyewitness also said Riddick was on a balcony shooting down at Catlett, however, forensic evidence showed the shots were fired in an upward direction, according to an appeal filed by Riddick.

Stevenson later recanted his testimony in a 1999 affidavit, claiming he was coerced by Philadelphia police to name Riddick

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May 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Ismael Zambada Garcia, aka “EL Mayo”, one of the most wanted drug lords in the world, was interviewed at an undisclosed location, somewhere in the Sinaloa’s hills, by the founder of the Mexican magazine, Proceso, Julio Scherer.

This is an extract of the interview, and a picture in which the face of the drug lord can be seen for the very first time since the 70’s.

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May 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

Woman sentenced to 3 years for false rape accusations

A judge handed down a three-year prison sentence to a woman who admitted that she falsely accused Parma Heights Police Chief Steve Scharschmidt of rape.

Davis came clean about her allegations after state agents confronted her with multiple inconsistencies in her story. They also obtained cellphone records that showed Davis made Google searches that included the phrase “can you go to jail for lying about a cop raping you.”

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April 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

Dorothea Puente ran a halfway house in Sacramento for the down and out. She murdered 7 of the residents and buried them in the front yard.

When Dorothea Puente was finally put on trial in 1992, the prosecutor called her one of the most “cold and calculating female killers the country had ever seen.” And though Puente didn’t look the part, the prosecutor was absolutely right.⁠

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December 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

In 2016, a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded a Daallo Airlines flight, intending to destroy the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the explosives detonated, blasting a hole in the plane, and instantly sucking the bomber out. He was the only fatality.

The explosive device was built into a laptop computer and blew a hole in the skin of the Daallo Airlines plane on February 2 but did not down the aircraft, because it detonated 20 minutes into the flight, before it reached cruising altitude. The suspected bomber was blown out of the plane, and his body was recovered on the ground near Mogadishu. The plane returned to the airport. Two people aboard were injured.

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November 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

Beth Thomas’ appearance on 1992 documentary Child of Rage featured shocking footage of her telling her psychiatrist she wanted to kill her parents and brother in the dead of night. She suffered from a rare psychological condition, RDA, that stemmed from extreme childhood neglect and sexual abuse – but she beat the odds to overcome her horrific early life to help others like her.

In the footage, Beth – then aged 6 – explains that parents Tim and Julie lock her in her room at night to stop her from stabbing them to death.

She also admits to sexually abusing her younger brother, Jonathan, torturing the family dog and killing a nest of baby birds.

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Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.

Just moments after news cameras captured this image, Louisiana dad Gary Plauche stepped up to the man who’d kidnapped and raped his young son – and shot him dead on live TV

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16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded nine others. 1979

Recipes found in a prisoner’s cell

Man is released from prison after serving 29 years for murder he didn’t commit

Ismael Zambada Garcia, aka “EL Mayo”, one of the most wanted drug lords in the world, was interviewed at an undisclosed location, somewhere in the Sinaloa’s hills, by the founder of the Mexican magazine, Proceso, Julio Scherer.

Woman sentenced to 3 years for false rape accusations

Dorothea Puente ran a halfway house in Sacramento for the down and out. She murdered 7 of the residents and buried them in the front yard.

In 2016, a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded a Daallo Airlines flight, intending to destroy the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the explosives detonated, blasting a hole in the plane, and instantly sucking the bomber out. He was the only fatality.