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The Gilgo Beach serial killer case has haunted New York's Long Island community for more than a decade, ever since the first of multiple bodies were discovered along Ocean Parkway in December 2010. More than a decade later, in July 2023, Massapequa Park local Rex Heuermann was then dramatically arrested as he left his office in midtown Manhattan. Now, Daily Mail Senior Crime Reporter Ruth Bashinsky has closely examined the intricate details surrounding the Gilgo Beach Murders in a new crime show - including her own haunting 'encounter' with the suspect. Heuermann has been charged with the murders of seven...

A reporter for NPR has been driven into hiding after being named by MAGA supporters as the person who hit President Donald Trump in the face with a microphone. Danielle Kurtzleben, a political correspondent for the government-funded outlet, was named as the journalist who allegedly hit Trump in the face with a boom mic during a press conference last week, according to independent journalist Laura Loomer. Loomer, a staunch Trump fan, identified Kurtzleben on Sunday in a post on X, suggesting she may have hit the president on purpose. 'I have identified the reporter who hit President @realDonaldTrump in the...

Once a year, global elites from all sectors attend a five-day conference in the snow-capped town of Davos, Switzerland - which is supplemented by caviar, champagne, and all types of debauchery after hard work is over. The World Economic Forum 2024 is kicking off this week, with world leaders and business executives convening for discussions and events surrounding the most prominent issues of the day. The theme this year is 'Rebuilding Trust' - and will be attended by 3,000 guests. But when they descend on the small Alpine resort town of Davos, attendees do more than just discuss global conflicts,...

A San Francisco venture capitalist who was once dubbed 'Silicon Valley's Party Animal' has been convicted of fraud totalling $19 million - and now faces up to 60 years in prison. Michael Brent Rothenberg, who was raised in a Jehovah's Witness family in Georgetown, Texas, used his dense network of successful Ivy League friends to set up his own VC fund in 2012 based on the strategy of throwing opulent parties. He rubbed shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, rented out baseball stadiums for networking events, and threw all-day-and-night parties in a bid to attract investors and companies to invest in. This...

Burning Man revelers have been forced to walk around the swamped playa barefoot and survive on tins of tuna after a washout saturated the dry ground. Torrential rains overwhelmed the Nevada desert, turning the dust into clay - meaning that 73,000 revelers are trapped until the landscape dries up. One person died in the ordeal, it was reported on Saturday. Festivalgoers dealing with the treacherous conditions in Black Rock City have also ditched their shoes that keep getting stuck in the mud - while they desperately conserve their food and water supplies. The portable toilets on the festival site also...

Kid Rock is selling Bud Light at his bar again despite shooting up a case of the beer with his AR-15 in protest of its collaboration with Dylan Mulvaney. In April, Kid Rock was left so furious with Bud Light's choice of influencer that he took out several cases with an automatic gun - but the drink is still being sold at his Big Honky Tonk & Steakhouse in Nashville. The pro-Trump singer, wearing a MAGA hat, said he wanted to send a 'clear and concise' message after discovering trans content creator Dylan Mulvaney was working with the beer company....

A Texas woman has revealed that she nearly died from sepsis after doctors in the abortion-ban state refused to remove an inviable child from her body. Amanda Zurawski, 35, was 18 weeks pregnant with her daughter when she noticed something was wrong - but she was forced to wait three days until she was 'sick enough' for medics to perform an emergency abortion. On August 23, she found out that she had an incompetent cervix - meaning that she had dilated too early and miscarriage was inevitable. Because of strict abortion laws in Texas following the overturn of Roe v...

Multiple celebrities including movie icon Jamie Lee Curtis, comedian Sarah Silverman and Frozen star Josh Gad have come forward to denounce Kanye West's anti-Semitic Twitter outburst. Curtis spoke about the timing of West's words, coming a week after Yom Kippur, adding: 'Words matter. A threat to Jewish people ended once in a genocide.' Comedian Sarah Silverman has spoken out on the lack of outrage from non-Jews following Kanye West's anti-Semitic statements on Twitter by declaring: 'The silence is so loud.'Josh Gad echoed Silverman's statements by saying that so many people stand with him on other political issues but are silent...

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis revealed how three of the looters were illegal immigrants 'who should not be in the US at all' 'These are people that are foreigners, they're illegally in our country, but not only that, they try to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,' he said In a warning to looters, Ron DeSantis said that Floridians would not be scared to evoke their Second Amendment rights if they caught an opportunist in their midst DeSantis has taken a similarly hard line when it comes to immigration Last month he was instrumental in sending...

An ICU nurse has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter after a fiery 100mph crash left a pregnant mother, her unborn child, one-year-old son and four others dead. Nicole L. Linton, 37, a nurse from Texas who works in Los Angeles, was charged Monday as she cried in court over the Thursday crash that killed six and left eight others injured. If convicted as charged, she could face up to 90 years in prison. Police said Linton slammed her car into five other vehicles while driving as fast as 100 mph by an...