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When serial killer Rex Heuermann returns to court on June 17, eight families will finally receive justice. Heuermann, who has pleaded guilty to the murders of eight young women whose bodies were left on Gilgo Beach and elsewhere here in Suffolk County, is set to receive three life sentences without parole, followed by 100 years to life in prison.

Two men accused of killing an off-duty Florida firefighter for his Nike sneakers and iPhone boasted about the murder just moments after the heinous act, according to a witness who saw the gunman “smiling about it.” Torrey Holston, 26, and Jose Garcia Romero, 27, allegedly killed Coral Springs-Parkland firefighter Christopher Randazzo, 39, in front of a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort when he left his second job as a bartender at Aruba Beach Cafe around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019. Holston was heard saying, “I can’t believe I just caught a body,” witness Cheyenne Papach testified Tuesday. “And he was smiling about...

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro has been indicted in connection to his alleged role in the 1996 downing of two planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue. The indictment was unsealed on Wednesday. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and other officials are expected to make the announcement in Miami.

The United States on Wednesday charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of two small aircraft, marking the first time a senior figure from the communist regime has been accused before the courts of its neighboring enemy. Castro is accused of murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, and destruction of aircraft in connection with the deaths of four people. The charges represent a new escalation in Washington’s intense pressure campaign against the communist island, which has been under a U.S. embargo since 1962 and is now devastated by a severe economic crisis. Raúl Castro, now 94, was...

A teenage stabbing victim bled to death on the street in Southampton after British police arrested and cuffed him rather than his alleged Sikh attacker, after the suspect claimed he’d been racially abused, according to court testimony. Henry Nowak, 18, a finance student at the University of Southampton, was walking home from a night out in December 2025, chatting with some friends on Snapchat, when he was encountered by Vickrum Digwa, 23. After a brief exchange, Digwa stabbed Nowak with an eight-inch Sikh ceremonial shastar blade, according to court testimony reported by BBC. A post-mortem examination showed Nowak had four...

EVERMAN, Texas — The human remains recovered this week during a multi-department excavation at a home in Everman have been positively identified as those of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, the Tarrant County District Attorney confirmed Friday. This home in the 3400 block of Wisteria Lane has been searched before in connection with the disappearance of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez Alvarez. Noel's mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, who is charged with capital murder, was found incompetent to stand trial last month. Noel was reported missing in March 2023, months after he was last seen alive in October 2022. At the time of his disappearance, investigators...

Zimbabwe will return dozens of foreign-owned farms seized more than two decades ago during a land reform drive, but is not reversing the contested policy, the agriculture minister said Friday. The land grab was launched by longtime ruler Robert Mugabe in 2000, with thousands of white farmers evicted, often violently, and their land redistributed to black Zimbabweans The government will return 67 farms covered by bilateral investment pacts "but which remained un-occupied" to the investors, Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said in a statement. The investors are from Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. More than 400 white farmers would be...

Chilling new interrogation video shows the moment a trans killer calmly confessed to executing her parents — blaming it on her mom trying to thwart her gender transition surgery. Mia Bailey, now 30, copped to slaughtering her parents, Gail and Joseph Bailey, inside the family home in Washington, Utah, in 2024, the footage obtained by KUTV shows. The brazen murderer, who is currently serving two life sentences, told investigators in the newly released clip that her mental health had been declining for years and that’s “why I needed the surgery.” “She was trying to sabotage it. She always had boundary...

Kouri Richins, a Utah woman convicted of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl, was sentenced to life without parole for murder on Wednesday. The 35-year-old mother of three, who self-published a children's book on grieving following her husband's death in 2022, was found guilty on all counts in March following a weekslong trial. The Summit County jury reached a verdict after about three hours of deliberations. Eric Richins, 39, was found dead in bed on March 4, 2022. An autopsy determined that he died from fentanyl intoxication, and the level of fentanyl in his blood was approximately five times the...

South Carolina’s top court on Wednesday undid the murder convictions against Alex Murdaugh, the lawyer a jury had found guilty of murdering his wife and one of his sons in a trial that captivated the country. In a unanimous opinion, the state’s supreme court said that “shocking jury interference” by a court clerk who oversaw jurors during the 2023 trial meant that Mr. Murdaugh’s convictions must be overturned. The nearly six-week trial ended with his conviction in March 2023. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before determining that he had killed his wife and son. Prosecutors had described the...

In a lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court Monday, the family of Tiru Chabba, one of two people killed in April 2025, argued the suspected gunman Phoenix Ikner carried out the mass shooting with “input and information” provided by ChatGPT in the months and days leading up to the attack. ..... Amid Ikner’s alleged months of talking with ChatGPT about imminent harm, Chabba’s lawyers said the chatbot either “defectively failed to connect the dots” or was not designed to recognize the threat. ChatGPT allegedly explained how to use the guns Ikner obtained, including how to load and operate them...

A DECADES old cold case involving a teen girl who was found beaten and stabbed to death has come to an end thanks to a DNA link. Bobby Charles Taylor Sr., 60, was arrested in connection to the brutal rape and murder of Deanna Ogg who died in 1986 at the age of 16. Deanna Ogg was found dead in 1986, and now 40 years later authorities have arrested a man in connection with her murderCredit: Handout Mugshot of Bobby Charles Taylor Sr., who was arrested for the 1986 murder of Deanna Ogg. Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. was arrested and...

Long-serving Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Vi Lyles, who faced calls to resign after urging compassion for the deranged vagrant accused of brutally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a city train last year, announced she will leave her post just six months after being re-elected. The five-term Democrat, 73, said in a press release that she would resign June 30 and would not be seeking another term next year when her term ends, but offered no concrete reason for her sudden and unexpected departure. “Serving as Charlotte’s mayor has been the honor of my life. I am proud of our...

Police in North Carolina arrested and charged a 24-year-old over the alleged rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, who was found stripped and bound in a Charlotte apartment — after suffering months of torture. The body of 19-year-old Isabella Stroupe was found almost naked and bound with a tow strap in east Charlotte on Friday, WSCOTV’s Hunter Sáenz reported, citing court records. Her boyfriend, Thomaz Hamilton, 24, initially claimed the couple was having sex when she suffered a suspected heart attack, according to court documents. But following an autopsy, the medical examiner ruled Stroupe’s death a homicide, Sáenz reported....

The concentration of knife attacks in the Barcelona metropolitan area widens the gap between the official discourse on crime and public perception of security. Crime scene cordoned off iby the regional police in Barcelona on May 4, 2026 - @AlertaMundoNews on X, May 4, 2026 Barcelona and its metropolitan area saw an unusual sequence of knife violence this weekend: four stabbings in just 24 hours, two of them fatal. The most serious incident occurred on Saturday morning. A woman was killed in broad daylight in one of the quietest residential areas of the municipality. It did not take place in...

A heartless Long Island gang leader was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for ordering the kidnapping and murder of an motorist who fell asleep in front of her house. Kayla Alvarenga, 23, was found guilty of ordering her Bay Shore-based gang, “Family Over Everything, Everybody Killed,” to drag sleeping 29-year-old Linver Ortiz Ponce from his car in March 2022 — then directing her goons to shoot him as he tried to crawl away in a church parking lot. Ponce was a complete stranger who had pulled over to rest on a residential South Shore block after a night out,...

Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences—clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals. Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases. These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones. “The prior administration failed...

Kentucky is suing Roblox for allegedly allowing child predators to run rampant on its platform and exposing children to heinous material — including simulators of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The lawsuit, filed Monday by the office of Attorney General Russell Coleman, alleged that the gaming platform with 111 million active monthly users lacks guardrails to protect kids and creates a “playground” for pedophiles to meet potential victims, according to the document obtained by The Post. Due to lax age verification protocols, child predators often create accounts on the massive multiplayer online game and game creation system and pose as...

Sitting on bench seats in a retrofitted old hearse, stuck in quintessentially choked Los Angeles highway traffic, I listened to a woman narrate the macabre details of an 80-year-old murder. The guide, Blaze Lovejoy—whose business card identified her as a “dark storyteller” and “Manson specialist”—had already driven us through Hollywood. Now she was bringing us to downtown Los Angeles, the heart of this particular darkness. Lovejoy wore combat boots with flames across the toes and had a microphone headset on, her British accent giving the narration a Vincent Price vibe: “A Hollywood dream turned to a real-life nightmare, with a...

Bone-chilling new video captures the moment a former Mexican beauty queen is gunned down in front of her baby — allegedly by her jealous mother-in-law. SNIP “Nothing,” Herrera answered. “She made me angry.” “What’s wrong with you? She’s my family,” the son responds. “You’re mine and she stole you,” his mother said. SNIP The dead woman’s mother, Reyna Gomez Molina, told Univision News that Gomez delayed reporting the incident due to concern over the couple’s young baby.