Sherri Papini, the Redding, California, mother who faked her disappearance, plans to open up about her 2016 kidnapping hoax in a forthcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries. The ID docuseries, slated for 2025, will feature exclusive interviews with Papini and individuals close to Papini about her false abduction, the media firestorm that …
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On Jan. 29, 2022, Massachusetts woman Karen Read went to a bar with her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, dropping him off at the home of a fellow police officer Brian Albert just after midnight. Six hours later, O’Keefe’s body was found outside in the snow, kickstarting what has …
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The jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision on whetherKaren Read— the woman accused of murdering her late boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, by running him over with a car in 2022 —is guilty or not. Massachusetts judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial in the case …
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According to her former husband Keith Papini, Sherri Papini started with little white lies. She told him she went to college in Orange County, and he believed her. She’d told him about a previous hip injury from when she danced ballet, and he believed her. Nothing could have prepared Keith …
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In October 2021, the viral TikTok star Ali Abulaban, who posted under the handle Jinnkid and boasted nearly one million followers, killed his wife Ana Abulaban and her friend Rayburn Barron, suspecting that she was cheating on him. He was convicted of the crimes in May 2024. The paranoia that …
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Thirty years after the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson — and just weeks after her ex-husband O.J. Simpson died — a new two-part documentary will put the focus on her life before her tragic death. “I think it’s important that people get to know my sister,” one of Brown’s three …
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The first episode of The Jinx Part Two is titled “Why Are You Still Here?” Like every installment of the true crime docuseries, it’s a quote from the episode itself; in this case, it’s prosecutor John Lewin asking accused murderer Robert Durst why he hadn’t already fled the country by …
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In the new Hulu limited series Under the Bridge, Riley Keough plays Rebecca Godfrey, a novelist who begins writing a non-fiction book about the murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl who lived in the same Canadian suburb where Rebecca grew up. In one episode, Rebecca’s father reads the first …
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Infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison on Tuesday, months after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse.Utah Judge John J Walton sentenced Franke to four consecutive prison terms — each of which can require up to 15 years in …
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Online dating can be a minefield. Your feelings can get hurt. Your confidence can be shaken. Your time can be wasted. And you can wander into a maelstrom of murder, arson, and identity theft that leaves you questioning your previously established reality. This is the point at which a situation …
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