The bad omens came early at this year’s Burning Man — the infamously wild, weeklong celebration of art, music, and unrestrained self-expression held at the end of every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — portending a particularly extra-ordinary burn. During the first weekend of the 10-day event, when thousands …
Read More »Burning Man Homicide: Police Seek Help Identifying Victim
Police are seeking help identifying the victim in what is being investigated as a homicide during this year’s Burning Man held in the Nevada Desert. The victim was discovered on Saturday, just as the human-shaped wooden structure called the “Man” was beginning to burn, a tradition at the annual event …
Read More »Man Found Dead in Suspected Homicide at Burning Man, Attendees Told to 'Be Vigilant'
A man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” at Burning Man, and event held in the Nevada desert, which local and federal officials are investigating as a homicide. The unidentified victim, who was described as a white male, was found around 9:14 p.m. on Saturday after Pershing …
Read More »Andre Braugher Played Two of TV's Greatest Cops. But His Family Came First
In the first episode of the Nineties NBC cop drama Homicide: Life on the Street, Baltimore police detective Frank Pembleton, played by a then-obscure actor named Andre Braugher, reluctantly takes on a young partner, Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor). Bayliss, new to homicide investigation, is eager to watch Pembleton interrogate a …
Read More »3 Girls Were Strangled to Death. Why Did It Take 8 Months for the DA to Tell the Public?
Last summer in Eastern Texas, a horrific tragedy struck. Three young siblings were pulled out of a neighbor’s pond dead, and believed to have drowned. Then, in March, the incident made national headlines when authorities announced autopsy results showing the sisters had not died by accident — they’d been strangled …
Read More »Darrell Brooks Receives 6 Consecutive Life Sentences for Killing 6 in Christmas Parade Crash
Darrell Brooks Jr. — the Milwaukee resident who was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentionalhomicideaftercrashing his SUVinto a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Nov. 21, 2021 — was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 16. He received six consecutive life sentences on Counts 1 through 6, one for each …
Read More »Darrell Brooks Found Guilty of Killing 6 in Christmas Parade Crash: 'Burn in Hell You Piece of Shit'
After a trial filled with interruptions, disruption, and frustration, Milwaukee resident Darrell Brooks was found guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide after crashing his SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb outside of Milwaukee, on Nov. 21, 2021. A sixth victim, a child, died later …
Read More »An OnlyFans Model Says She Stabbed Her Boyfriend in Self-Defense. Friends Claim She Was the Abuser
There’s only one person who knows exactly what happened shortly before 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, to leave Christian “Toby” Obumseli dead from a stab wound— and according to her lawyer, that person is back home in Texas with her parents, grieving the loss of her boyfriend, and recovering …
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