Amanda Knox: Guilty or Innocent?

There is only one thing both the defense and the prosecution appear to agree on in this case, someone murdered 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the house she rented with three other young women in the centuries old town of Perugia, Italy.

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Missing 5-year-old found Dead: Police say her mother sold her for Sex

The search for missing and initially presumed kidnapped 5-year-old Shaniya Davis has ended with the grim recovery of her body not too far from the hotel where surveillance cameras captured her in the arms of her confessed abductor.

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Ft. Hood Massacre - The Motive for Mass Murder

"When Nidal Hasan's fellow students complained to the military medical school faculty about his 'anti-American propaganda,' a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept these officers from filing a formal written complaint," thereby allowing him to remain in  …

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Eleven bodies and counting in suspected Serial Killer's "House of Horrors"

Convicted rapist Anthony Sowell of Cleveland, Ohio was 46-years-old when he was released from prison in 2005, this after serving a 15-year sentence for the 1989 violent rape of a local Cleveland woman.

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The DC Snipers: How many other Murders did they Commit?

For 23 frightening days in October 2002, a murderous team of domestic terrorists drove up and down Interstate 95 as it winds through Maryland, Washington, DC and south into the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Where in the world is Missing VA Tech Student Morgan Harrington?

Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old VA Tech college student and a small group of close friends bought their tickets for the October 17th Metallica concert at the University of Virginia (UVA) over six months ago.

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The Search for the Killer of Somer Thompson

The body of a 7-year-old Florida girl who has been missing since 3 PM on Monday has been found in a landfill some 60 miles from her home.

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Update: Suspect in Annie Le murder case was the last person to see victim alive

Police investigators served two warrants Tuesday night on a "person of interest" in this case — Raymond Clark III, an animal lab technician who works for Yale.

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Body of missing Yale grad student Annie Le found hidden in lab wall

FBI Agents and Connecticut State Police officers clothed in white hazmat suits continue their search of a local trash dump just south of Hartford, Conn and Yale University, pressing forward their investigation concerning formerly missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate stud …

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Missing Ivy League Bride-to-be: The Investigation grows more Ominois

Local and state police in Connecticut as well as the FBI continue their search for missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Marie Le.

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Mexican Airline Hijacking Resolved without Bloodshed

On 9/9/09, AeroMexico flight 576, coming from Bolivia, was hijacked shortly after takeoff from the resort town of Cancun and flown to Mexico City.

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How many more Jaycee Dugard's are still out there awaiting Rescue?

Most now know the story of Jaycee Dugard, the California girl who was kidnapped while awaiting a school bus in 1991, this by a husband/wife sexual predator team when she was just 11-years-old.

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Update: Another Mass Murder - Suspected Killer of 8 arrested in rural Georgia

Confusion seemed to float above the single wide trailer in rural south eastern Georgia that saw the murder of eight people this past weekend.

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Update: Jaycee Lee Dugard; Stockholm Syndrome or Just Staying Alive...

On June 10, 1991, then eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped as she waited for the arrival of her school bus, this a mere 150 yards from her home.

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Gun Totters around the President are needlessly Provocative

In addition to the emotional charged rhetoric being spewed at town meetings around America concerning health care reform, we now have dozens of gun toting citizens showing up at Presidential speaking events as some kind of symbolic statement concerning their second amendment rig …

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How to Escape a Kidnapper

Seventeen-year-old Lily Burk was running some errands for her family on a sunny Los Angeles Friday afternoon when she crossed paths with the monster that would shortly take her life.

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Did Olivia Newton John's former boyfriend fake his own Death?

Olivia Newton John’s former boyfriend, now 52-year-old Patrick McDermott, who was actually born Patrick Kim, was one of 23 paying passengers and three crew members that departed on June 30, 2005, from the San Pedro, CA, marina on the fishing boat “Freedom” for  …

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"Posh Spice" look alike sought in Madeleine McCann Disappearance

Madeleine McCann was about to turn four when she disappeared from the Portuguese sea front resort hotel room where she lay sleeping with her then two-year-old twin brother and sister.

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Amanda Knox: The Prosecution Rests for the Woman called "Angel Face"

It’s been almost 22 months since the brutal murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, found naked and dead in the Perugia, Italy, apartment that she shared with three other women, to include now 22-year-old American Amanda Knox.

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Accusations of Racism still Cut Both Ways in America

When Cambridge, MA, police sergeant James Crowley responded to an otherwise routine breaking and entering call last Thursday (7/16/09), he had no idea of the firestorm that call would ignite.

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Missing VA Tech Shooter's Mental Health Files Found

April 16, 2007, was a cool spring Monday on the Virginia Tech College campus. Students slowly arose from their weekend activities and headed from their dorms to classes; and then the gunfire began.

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Brutal Seattle Murder: Police Unsure if the Killer's motivation was Hate, Race, Sex, or simply a Burglary gone Terribly Bad

Seattle, Washington Police and other local, state, and Federal agencies are racing against the clock to catch a brutal killer before he strikes again.

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Racial Supremacists are Alive and Well and Capable of Murder

For some racial supremacists, it is a highly visible symbol for everything they hate. The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, first opened its doors in 1993, providing millions with a terrible but true window to the past.

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Deceased Kung Fu TV Star "liked to tie himself up," says a former wife

David Carradine, age 72, starred in over 100 movies, but may be best remembered as the star of the 1972-1975 TV series "Kung Fu," or perhaps his lead role in the 2003/2004 movies "Kill Bill (vols.

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Cold Case turns Hot - the Hunt for April Tinsley's Killer

Some killers commit a terrible act and are never seen or heard from again, noting that only about one-half of the known homicides in the U.S. are solved each year.

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