Man jumps off 20-foot bridge into raging river to avoid taking a DUI test… but is rescued and taken to jail
A Louisiana man jumped off a bridge to avoid his eighth arrest on drink-driving charges – only to be rescued from the choppy waters of the lake below and taken to jail, police revealed. Thomas Robert Harter, 44, was swerving and speeding in a car as he crossed the Causeway bridge over Lake Pontchartrain near [...]
Shocking CCTV footage shows New York’s top jail warder brutally beating handcuffed inmate in savage 20 second attack
Shocking CCTV footage of New York State’s top jail warder savagely beating a handcuffed and pepper-sprayed inmate was released this week. The brutal video shows Tioga County Jail’s Lt David Monell punching David Coffey, who is sitting down chained to a wooden bench, at least six times in the head. He is then seen grabbing [...]
Teacher ‘killed fourth husband for $1.2m life insurance’ (and she’s also accused of suffocating her mother and trying to kill two previous spouses)
A teacher hatched a plot to kill her fourth husband for $1.2million life insurance, prosecutors have claimed at her trial. Elain Young, 57, is charged with planning and carrying out the murder of her husband Melvin ‘Beau’ Griesbauer, 48, with her friend Katherine Mock, 58, in Missouri. Griesbauer was an army reserve specialist who survived [...]
‘Don’t let him do it to me again’: Court hears chilling last words of girl, eight, ‘raped and killed by couple after being abducted on way home from school’
The last horrifying moments of an eight-year-old girl’s life were revealed in graphic detail today by a woman who has admitted bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. Victoria ‘Tori’ Stafford was abducted from outside her school in Woodstock, Ontario, on April 8, 2009. Her body was found 103 days later stashed in garbage bags [...]
Wife ‘laughed at police after shooting dead her fire chief husband… hours after having sex with another man’
The wife of a respected Oklahoma fire chief laughed at police as they collected gunpowder residue after she allegedly shot her husband in the back of the head in September. At Rebecca Bryan’s murder trial Wednesday, her best friend testified that on the way to the hospital to see her dying husband, the 52-year-old mother [...]
Woman, 22, jailed for ‘battering 74-year-old live-in boyfriend’ who had undergone open heart surgery
A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for battering her 74-year-old live-in boyfriend after a confrontation at their Florida home. Sierra Chaffin ‘intentionally’ pushed Marcos Beita, who she had a ‘physical [and] intimate relationship’ with, according to a report by a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputy. She has been charged with battery of a person over [...]
Married high school teacher, 31, ‘seduced student by telling him he resembled Twilight star’
A California high school teacher seduced her sophomore student by telling him he looked like Twilight star Taylor Lautner, police records show. Police arrested Janel Ramirez, 31, a married teacher at Hemet High school in Riverside, California, after the student told school authorities about the affair. The student told authorities his affair with Ramirez began [...]
‘They did everything you see in the movie’: Partying teenagers wreck $500,000 home in copycat of hit film Project X
A group of teenagers have been accused of wrecking a $500,000 home in a copycat of the film ‘Project X.’ The teens threw a party at the empty Texas home before going on a wrecking spree with the building owners saying it looked like it had been hit by a tornado. Nearly every window in [...]
Archdiocese’s female ex-CFO arrested in theft of $900,000… after she had written 184 church checks to pay her American Express bill and no one noticed
A former financial executive of the Philadelphia archdiocese has been charged with stealing over $900,000 from the church. City prosecutors say 42-year-old Anita Guzzardi turned herself into authorities on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Guzzardi used hundreds of church checks to pay personal credit card bills from 2005 to 2011. No one within the Church ever noticed, [...]
Mother jailed for locking son in mice-infested trailer and only feeding him four times a week
A woman who locked her 14-year-old son in a squalid trailer and fed him just a few times a week has been jailed for three years. Amanda Jolliff, 37, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and child abuse after police found the boy living in a rodent-infested mobile home in Erie, Colorado. Police said the boy’s [...]
Art teacher forced girl, 14, to urinate in bucket in front of classmates after refusing to let her go to toilet
A high school student claims her art teacher refused to give her a hall pass and forced her to urinate in a bucket in class instead. The 14-year-old girl, who has filed a lawsuit, says teacher Gonja Wolf’s actions left her feeling ‘disgraced and humiliated’. The student claims that after the incident she was teased [...]
The ultimate cougar? Former police officer who had ‘sex with teen 100 times’ had ‘stalked high school boys for sex’
The woman who is accused of almost 100 sex acts with a 15-year-old actively sought schoolboys for sex, according to police in Florida. Alysia Flynn is a former police officer and mother who feared she had become pregnant by her teenage lover. The 32-year-old is charged with nearly 100 offences of having sex with the [...]