Police arrest wife and mother of man ‘who killed mom and 14-year-old daughter’ – as search continues for her two youngest daughters
The mother and wife of a man suspected of abducting a Tennessee mother and her three daughters have been also been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, officials said on Tuesday. The arrests come after the bodies of two members of the kidnapped family – mother Jo Ann Bain and her 14-year-old daughter Adrienne – were [...]
Serial killer: Timothy Krajcir faces new charges in Kentucky
Timothy Wayne Krajcir is a convicted American serial killer from West Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania who has confessed to killing over nine women, five in Missouri and four others in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Krajcir would travel to various towns that he had no connection to, stalk his victims, and thenbreak into their homes and wait for them to arrive. In 1977, Krajcir was released from prison after serving time for [...]
Uncle in kidnapping jailed on high bond
A longtime Spokane felon accused of kidnapping his 14-year-old niece will remain jailed on $350,000 bond, a judge ruled Friday. Steven Norton Tofte, 53, told police he was trying to keep the girl from her abusive family members, but police continue to investigate the circumstances of her disappearance. “I just wanted to make sure she was [...]
Judge sentences Mormon girl, 19, to life in prison for beating girl, 16, to death with shovel
A Mormon teenager has been sentenced to life behind bars for helping her boyfriend beat his ex-girlfriend to death with a shovel in a crime the judge branded ‘as violent as I’ve ever seen’. Toni Fratto, who will be eligible for parole in 10 years, avoided a death sentence by entering a plea deal in [...]
Psychopath who imprisoned ‘sex slave’ in a telephone box rigged with explosives in his flat is sent to psychiatric hospital
A lunatic who kidnapped a woman as a sex slave and imprisoned her in a makeshift torture chamber has been sentenced to an indefinite term in a secure psychiatric hospital. Thomas Fischer, 30, made headlines last year when the woman escaped from a telephone box rigged to explosives that he had set up in his [...]
‘Mountain man’ who kidnapped female athlete, 22, to keep as a wife for his son and killed her would-be rescuer bids for parole
A notorious ‘mountain man,’ who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son, once wrote that blame for the ‘incident’ lies with her and a would-be rescuer whom he shot and killed. Don Nichols will undoubtedly need to be more contrite later this month in front of the historically [...]
Inside the disturbing mind of a serial killer facing execution
Serial killer David Alan Gore has bragged about raping and murdering four teenagers and two women. In chilling correspondence, Gore sent around 200 pages worth of letters to a man named Tony Ciaglia, who wrote Gore and other serial killers after a severe head injury as a teenager in an effort to better understand them. [...]
Handyman guilty of killing cleaner and stuffing body in skyscraper air duct after stalking her as they worked night shift
A handyman was convicted yesterday of suffocating a cleaning lady and stuffing her body in an air-conditioning duct in a deserted office tower where they worked at night. Joseph Pabon, 27, was found guilty of the kidnap and murder of Eridania Rodriguez in July 2009. Mrs Rodriguez, 46, disappeared while working a night shift cleaning at [...]
Married couple ‘strangled teacher, doused her naked body in bleach and dumped it in river after luring her out of her home
A couple accused of murdering Vermont school teacher Melissa Jenkins lured her from her home by claiming that their vehicle had broken down, court documents revealed today. Allen Prue, 30, and his wife Patricia Prue, 33, allegedly called the 33-year-old mother out to help them on Sunday night before they strangled and beat her to [...]
New life plan for mother jailed over kidnap of her daughter Shannon as she prepares for release in three weeks
Karen Matthews, who was jailed over the kidnap of her daughter, is planning a new life in a different location after her release in less than three weeks. Matthews, 36, became a hate figure over the plot to abduct Shannon, then aged nine, to claim a £50,000 reward. Her accomplice Michael Donovan, 44, is believed [...]
Craigslist Killer: Philip Markoff
Philip Haynes Markoff was an American medical student who was charged with the armed robbery and murder of Julissa Brisman in a Boston, Massachusetts hotel on April 14, 2009, and two other armed robberies. Markoff maintained his innocence of all charges and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. A grand jury indicted Markoff for first-degree [...]
Sketch shows man wanted in Yelm-area abduction attempt
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office has released a sketch of the man deputies said attacked and tried to kidnap a woman near Yelm last week. Investigators said he tried to force the 21-year-old woman into his pickup truck as she walked along Railway Road Southeast last Monday. The driver asked if she [...]