Ex-FBI agent floats religious motive theory in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case
A retired FBI special agent is raising new questions about the alleged ransom notes in the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, suggesting the person behind them may be driven by religious self-righteousness rather than simple greed. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a former FBI agent who has followed ...
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Ex-partner charged with murder nearly a decade after pregnant Australian woman's death
Nearly eight years after a pregnant woman was found unresponsive in the middle of the night at an Australian home, New South Wales police arrested her former partner and charged him with murder, a development that came only after a coronial inquest was suspended, detectives reopened the case, and th...
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DNA on shell casings ties two teens to murder of congressional intern, prosecutors tell D.C. court
Prosecutors in Washington, D.C., told a judge Friday that DNA testing on shell casings recovered from the scene of a fatal shooting last summer produced an "overwhelming statistical match" to one of the teenagers charged with murdering Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a 21-year-old congressional intern and Un...
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DOJ moves to vacate Jan. 6 convictions for Oath Keepers and Proud Boys members
The Department of Justice filed motions Tuesday to vacate the convictions of several high-profile defendants tied to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach, a sweeping legal action that would permanently dismiss the most serious cases brought against members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys organizat...
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Two fatally shot outside Washington State event hall as 200 gathered inside; suspect arrested on murder charges
Two people were found fatally shot in the parking lot of an event hall in Longview, Washington, on Saturday night while roughly 200 people were gathered inside the venue, and police arrested a 49-year-old Kelso man on two counts of first-degree murder after a vehicle pursuit and foot chase, the Long...
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North Carolina man charged with first-degree murder in 1990 New Jersey cold case after DNA breakthrough
Robert William McCaffrey Jr. was arrested Friday evening in Manteo, North Carolina, and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree burglary in the 1990 killing of 27-year-old Lisa Marie McBride, a cold case that went unsolved for more than three decades before advan...
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Florida governor candidate Kevin Cichowski arrested on charges of battering elderly victims in Flagler County
Flagler County deputies drew their weapons and ordered a Florida gubernatorial candidate to the ground after two elderly people were found hiding in a bedroom, accused of being beaten by the man who wants to lead the state. Kevin Cichowski, 46, now faces a stack of felony charges, and it is not his ...
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Florida couple found dead in Wewahitchka home in apparent murder-suicide
A 40-year-old Florida woman and her 44-year-old husband were found dead in a bedroom of their Wewahitchka home on Monday, April 6, after a concerned caller requested a welfare check because the woman had not shown up for work. The Gulf Coast Sheriff's Department said the medical examiner's office in...
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East Bay journalist says Eric Swalwell's conduct toward women was an open secret among local Democrats
A veteran California political journalist who has covered Rep. Eric Swalwell since his days on the Dublin City Council says the congressman's alleged behavior toward women "was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party", and has been since shortly after Swal...
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Former FBI most wanted fugitive pleads guilty to child sex trafficking of teenage girl
Donald Eugene Fields II, a 61-year-old man who spent nearly two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of child sex trafficking. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced the plea, which carries a minimum sentence of...
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