Serial Killer: Randy Steven Kraft was convicted of 16 murders and is strongly suspected of committing at least 51 others
Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer. He was convicted of 16 murders and is strongly suspected of committing at least 51 others. During the 1970s and early 1980s, dozens of grisly homicides occurred along the freeways of California, with some victims turning up in the neighboring state of Oregon. The victims were young men and teenage boys, most of whom [...]
Classic White Crimes (1951): Henry Ford McCracken kidnap, rape and murder a 12-year-old girl
1951: Henry Ford McCracken was convicted of luring 12-year-old Patricia Jean Hull from a neighborhood movie theater into his auto-court cottage in Buena Park on May 19, 1951. Once he had her under his control, he sexually assaulted the girl before he bludgeoned her to death. Her body was found several days later near what is [...]
‘Creepy’ man charged with sex abuse after incident at pool
BEAVERTON, Ore. — For being such a sunny, warm day, the pool at the Fountain Park apartments in Beaverton was surprisingly empty on Friday. That’s because a 60-year-old Beaverton man has been charged with sex abuse and other charges after police said he exposed his genital area to two young girls at the pool. David [...]
California father Joshua Allen Robey seen trying to strangle infant son on hidden camera footage
LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man was caught by a hidden camera attempting to kill his 2-month-old son with a blanket fashioned as a noose, prosecutors said. Joshua Allen Robey, 24, is behind bars and due for arraignment Nov. 9 on one felony county each of attempted murder, torture and child abuse. According to the Orange County [...]
Mother-of-four plied boy, 15, with drink and drugs and had sex with him’
A 40-year-old woman has been jailed after admitting plying a teen with drink and drugs and having sex. Christine Noelle Starry, from Pennsylvania, allegedly admitted to sleeping with the 15-year-old boy on several occasions. The boy also told his mother he had sex with Starry on at least four occasions over a two-month period after [...]
Couple ‘left their six-day-old baby and toddler home alone in their trailer to go drinking’
A couple allegedly left their six-day-old baby and toddler home alone in their trailer to get drunk with friends. Police were called to the park in Kennesaw, Georgia, when a neighbour saw a 22-month-old boy in the street at 11.45 p.m., crying for his mother. An officer picked up the child and found the front [...]
Parents’ fury as teacher, 59, who got 16-year-old student pregnant tells court of their ‘love story’
A 59-year-old teacher defended his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student as a love story not a crime. The teenager, now 17, is approximately eight weeks pregnant with his child. Krag Sanford, from Michigan, pleaded no contest to accosting a child for immoral purpose in a Kent County court today. As part of an [...]
‘Coffee made me do it’: Serial groper tries to use ‘caffeine defense’ to explain assault on teenage girls
A school bus driver who was convicted of assault for groping teens and women says an excessive intake of caffeine drove him to the acts. Kenneth Sands, 51, from Seattle, tried to use what is being called the caffeine defense at his sentencing on Tuesday. Sands had been convicted in Lewis County Superior Court of [...]
Tennis champion Bob Hewitt under investigation over claims he ‘sexually abused young girls that he coached’
A South African tennis champion is facing allegations he sexually abused young girls that he coached. Bob Hewitt, now 72, won 15 Grand Slam men’s and mixed doubles titles during a highly successful decades-long career in the 1960s and 1970s. But the International Tennis Hall of Hame, in Newport, has now hired a lawyer to [...]
Caught by a bloody palm print: ‘Killer’ arrested 23 years after he ‘broke into honor student’s apartment to rape and murder her’
An Indianapolis man has been arrested for brutally killing a 16-year-old mother of one in November of 1989, when he was just 17. Police say Rodney Denk, now 40, broke into honor student Amy Weidner’s home with another assailant and the two raped and killed Ms Weidner. A bloody palm print on the wall of [...]
Sex offender on parole for trying to infect CHILDREN with HIV kidnapped boy, 10, in Wendy’s and stabbed him in the bathroom
A man on parole for trying to infect children with HIV nearly 20 years ago pulled a boy into a Portland restaurant bathroom over the weekend, attempted to sexually assault him and then stabbed him several times, police said. The 10-year-old’s injuries from the attack Sunday were severe enough to require surgery, and officers said [...]
Bus driver ‘offered boy, 10, $1 for sex then showed him naked pictures of his six-year-old SON’
A bus driver and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse, molestation, child pornography and child prostitution. Police say Brian DiCamillo, 39, was found out after he offered a 10-year old boy a dollar to have sex with him and when the boy declined, DiCamillo then showed him pornographic images of his [...]
Police officer arrested after ‘forcing 15-year-old girl to strip naked for ‘sex exam’ in the backseat of car’
A Florida police captain was arrested after allegedly forcing a 15-year-old girl to get naked so that he could inspect her to make sure she hadn’t been having sex. The girl was so mortified when Captain Juan De los Rios, a Miramar police force veteran of 28 years, told her to strip off that she [...]
Paedophile and girlfriend charged ‘after leaving cell phone with child porn’ in Walmart shopping cart leading to discovery of ‘molested’ four-year-old girl
A sex offender and his girlfriend were arrested on Wednesday after a cell phone laden with child porn images was left in a Walmart shopping cart. The phone allegedly belonged to Alan Robert Johnson, 33, convicted in 2003 of possessing and transporting child pornography, and his partner Jennifer Sparks, 37. The phone was found by [...]
Army wife found guilty of setting fire to home killing kids aged 9 and 2 in blaze ‘set for husband’
An Army wife has been found guilty of setting fire to her Fort Campbell home in a blaze that killed two of her three children which prosecutors alleged was meant for her husband. A federal jury in Paducah, Kentucky delivered the verdict five years after Billi Jo Smallwood’s 9-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter were killed [...]
Suspected pedophile, 25, arrested after posing as a teenager to live with 15-year-old boy and his mother
A suspected British paedophile has been arrested in America after posing as a teenager and staying with a 15-year-old boy and his mother. Michael Hunter, 25, was being held in jail on suspicion of flying to Florida to carry out illegal acts with a minor. Hunter, from Birmingham, had been staying with the teenage boy [...]