2 h. ago ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ spent months planning Arkansas prison escape – report

Corrections department review shows how Grant Hardin made fake guard uniform and details lax security at facilityA former police chief known and convicted murderer known as “the devil in the Ozarks” spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison, and he said lax security in the kitchen where he worked allowed him to gather the supplies he needed, according to an internal review by prison officials released on Friday.The state corrections department’s critical incident review of Grant Hardin’s 25 May escape from the Calico Rock prison provides the most detailed description so far of his planning – and the issues that allowed him to walk out of the facility. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Master manipulator convicted of murdering his fiancée and leaving her dead in an overflowing bath in fake accident scene

Clifford Cowen called 999 on June 23, 2024, claiming he was worried about his partner Rita Fleming after looking through her letterbox in Maida Hill.

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20 h. ago 'Abusive' man who murdered partner before attempting to stage false scene convicted after police uncover lies

It took a jury just six hours to find Clifford Cowen guilty

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3 d. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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3 d. ago Minnesota prosecutor seeks to overturn man's 1998 murder conviction after a witness confesses

A Minnesota prosecutor is seeking the release of a man in prison for 27 years for murder after a key witness recanted her testimony and confessed to the crime

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4 d. ago Aimee Betro had intention to kill before flying to UK, detectives believe

US woman Aimee Betro, 45, was convicted of conspiracy to murder at Birmingham Crown Court.

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7 d. ago Prosecutors may appeal to Supreme Court on 1979 missing child Etan Patz case

Prosecutors say they may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to preserve a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz

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9 d. ago Teenager convicted of murder over fatal stabbing outside Bedford bus station

Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of teenagers and fatally stabbed near Bedford bus station on January 8, police said.

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1 week ago I waited 40 years for justice for my sister. An unthinkable request from the culprit's daughter and a dark DNA twist could shatter our peace

Cindy French repeatedly had to get up and leave the trial of the man charged with her sister's murder. He was convicted 40 years after her body was found.

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1 week ago Wife of man convicted in ‘Delphi murders’ speaks out for the first time: ‘My husband’s not a monster’

Kathy Allen opened up in an interview that will be featured on ABC News Studios’ new series “Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge.”

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1 week ago Friend of baby killer Lucy Letby admits 'I feel so much guilt'

Despite being convicted acrosss two trials of murdering seven babies, Lucy Letby's childhood pal is convinced of her innocence, and she opened up about the 'guilt' she feels

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1 week ago Amanda Knox admits she wants to reconcile with murdered Meredith Kercher's family

Over 15 years since her murder conviction was squashed by a judge Amanda Knox, has said she would love the opportunity to reconcile with Meredith Kercher's siblings

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1 week ago Man who fatally attacked his vulnerable grandad after 'drinking all day' learns fate

Jakob Walpole, 36, was cleared of murdering his frail grandfather John Brown, but was convicted of his manslaughter by jurors at Warwick Crown Court last week

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1 week ago Man who killed grandad after 'drinking all day' shouts two words from dock as he's jailed

Jakob Walpole was cleared of murdering frail John Brown but was convicted of his manslaughter by jurors at Warwick Crown Court after attacking him in his own home

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1 week ago Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? review – one of the most meticulous documentaries in years

The science and statistics around Letby’s case are brilliantly unpacked by this considered programme. By its end, you are filled with questionsWhen three times more babies than expected die on a neonatal ward and one nurse is on duty during those deaths, it’s got to be pretty much an open-and-shut case, hasn’t it? Especially when breathing tubes have been clearly deliberately dislodged by someone from their tiny bodies and blood tests show spikes in insulin that can only be explained by the stuff being injected. And if you find someone who has written notes to herself about her guilt, then the way forward is clear. Lock the perpetrator up. Throw away the key.Such was the initial and still persisting narrative in the case of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital in Cheshire who became, in tabloid parlance, “Britain’s worst child serial killer”, when she was convicted in 2023 of seven murders and seven attempted murders of the infants in her care.Lucy Letb...

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3 w. ago Husband killed wife of 30 years and then flushed her head down toilet

Dempsey Nibbs, was convicted of murdering his partner of 30 years, Judith Nibbs, at the Old Bailey after he flew into a murderous rage at their east London home

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3 w. ago 34 men who ended up on Death Row have one thing in common – they all went to same school

Michael Bell is the latest Florida inmate to be executed - the convicted murderer was one of 34 former students of the notorious Dozier School for Boys known for systematic abuse

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4 w. ago Hospital patient who repeatedly stabbed ‘kind and patient’ nurse with scissors convicted of attempted murder

Romon Haque will be sentenced on September 15

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4 w. ago Nike fans are just learning creepy meaning behind 'Just Do It' slogan after 37 years

One of the world's most successful and most famous marketing slogans, Nike's 'Just Do It' is hiding a much more sinister past with ties to a convicted Death Row murderer

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