After four days of deliberation — and more than 25 years of questions — a California jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty of being an accessory to the crime. The decision came after an …
Read More »He Killed a Stranger He Thought Was a Werewolf. A Judge Just Banned Him From Social Media
In July 2018, a 34-year-old mentally ill man named Pankaj Bhasin walked into an alley near the Window Universe store in Alexandria, VA to look at boxes he believed contained human DNA. He saw Brad Jackson, the 65-year-old store manager, in the alley and followed him into the store, thinking …
Read More »Revisit the Scene of the Crime in '20/20′ Clip About Dentist Convicted of Murdering His Wife on Safari
The game scout who found the body of Bianca Rudolph — who was shot and killed by her husband, Larry, during an African safari — revisits the scene of the crime in a new clip from 20/20’s episode on the case, “The Last Hunt,” airing tomorrow, Sept. 16, at 9 …
Read More »'Serial': Prosecutors File Motion to Vacate Adnan Syed's Murder Conviction
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, which could result in the now-42-year-old Syed — the focus of the hit true crime podcast Serial — either receiving a new trial or being released from his life prison sentence entirely. According to the Wall …
Read More »'I'm Basically a Ticking Time Bomb': Watch Trailer for Netflix's Lori Vallow Docuseries 'Sins of Our Mother'
In the first trailer for the forthcoming three-part docuseries Sins of Our Mother, archival footage depicts Lori Vallow engaged in some uncomfortably eerie foreshadowing. “Being a good mom is very important to me, and a good wife,” she says, adding with a light laugh: “Being all those things together is …
Read More »'Free Chol Soo Lee': The Anti-True Crime Documentary That Exposes Much More Than a Terrible Miscarriage of Justice
On the surface, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of an infamous wrongful conviction and its long cultural aftermath. If you recognize the name, you know the story. In Chinatown, San Francisco, in 1973, a man named Yip Yee Tak was gunned down on …
Read More »A Missing Musician, a Broken Family, and a Bag of Bones: Inside a 40-Year Murder Mystery
T his story begins in 1982 with less than half a man — a pile of bones discovered under a layer of February snow, his broken skull smiling up at an adolescent worker behind his family’s factory. The bones were far from home, discarded in small-town Twinsburg, Ohio, which got …
Read More »OnlyFans Model Charged With Second-Degree Murder in Fatal Stabbing of Her Boyfriend
Four months after fatally wounding her boyfriend with a single stab to the chest in their luxury Miami high-rise apartment, OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. Clenny, 26, was taken into custody at a rehab facility in Hawaii, where she was receiving treatment for substance …
Read More »'Worse Than the O.J. Glove': The Dentist, the Love Triangle, and the Trial of the Safari Murder Mystery
DENVER, COLORADO — Dr. Larry Rudolph was always going to testify for himself. His lawyer wanted him to, but didn’t want Larry to appear rehearsed, like in the hokey TV ads for his dental practice back in Pittsburgh. His girlfriend, Lori Milliron, tells Rolling Stone she agreed that Larry should …
Read More »Dentist Convicted of Murdering His Wife on Safari
Larry Rudolph, a prominent Pittsburgh dentist, has been convicted of the 2016 murder of his wife, Bianca. His longtime girlfriend, Lori Milliron, was convicted on charges of being an accessory, obstruction of justice, and two counts of perjury, and was found not guilty on three additional counts of perjury. He …
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