Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but there’s a true crime docuseries on Netflix that has tongues wagging. The appetite for such endeavors appears bottomless; it seems we really enjoy depraved and aberrant behavior so long as we can hit pause and take a bathroom break every now and …
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The tale begins with a crime that left everyone baffled. In July 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children (and one driver) was hijacked in the sleepy Central California town of Chowchilla. The kidnap victims were taken to two vans, driven to an abandoned rock quarry, led off the bus, …
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Carlethia ‘Carlee’ Russell, a woman who admitted that she lied about being kidnapped when she went missing for two daysin July, was foundguilty of two misdemeanor charges during her court appearance in Hoover, Alabama. The nursing student was charged with one count of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and …
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Carlethia ‘Carlee’ Russell has been charged with filing a false police report and filing a false statement to law enforcement authorities after admitting that she lied about being kidnapped when she went missing for two days earlier this month. In a press conference on Friday, the Hoover Police Department announced …
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Sherri Papini, the California woman whose three-week disappearance became national news and sparked a major search effort before she reappeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own abduction. Papini’s priosn time will be followed by 36 months supervised release, and …
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After the announcement that runner Eliza Fletcher had been found dead, authorities in Memphis sought to quiet the social media rumors that had sprung up during the four-day search. At a Tuesday press conference, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy took pains to say Fletcher’s family had been “fully cooperative” …
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