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I was working for New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner when the unthinkable happened on Sept. 11, 2001. As a death investigator, I would usually go to an apartment or the streets to investigate a homicide, a suicide or an accidental death. Now it was my job to “work the pile” — that is, to recover and catalog the shattered human remains found in the burning, smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. I had been at the OCME for nine years and had seen all manner of death. After some months my boss, Chief Medical Examiner...

A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was put to death Thursday, becoming the state’s 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. after receiving a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery, whose mutilated body was found in a wooded southwest Florida area where authorities found the remains of at least six people over a three-year span....

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Interesting. Almost no news is coming out of the Tyler Robinson trial for the killing of Charlie Kirl. The bias of he media is sooooooooooo obvious. Imagine if someone (would have to be an obvious lunatic - a trans will do) were to murder a Communist, Woke, Leftist, Muslim, Traitorous figurehead (pick one, just not a trans), there would be wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage with initiation of an exta hour per day to 25 demand by the Expand the Supreme Court activists coverage of the trial. The person would suddenly become a card-carrying MAGA operative, far-right Crusades member time traveler to...

This video from Black Conservative Perspective discusses a triple homicide that occurred at the Davern Park Apartments in St. Paul, Minnesota. The host provides commentary on the tragic incident, which was allegedly sparked by a parking garage dispute involving a tenant, Tsegaab Binessu (30). Key details regarding the incident: The Victims: The employees killed in the shooting were Nancy Fuentes Zambrano (25), Dena Silcox (56), and Adam Wilwerding (43) (0:05 - 0:15, 3:41 - 3:47). The Accused: Tsegaab Binessu was arrested near Virginia, Minnesota (0:23, 5:02). Charging documents indicate he expressed frustration over his inability to cancel a parking contract...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Two children and an adult were killed Thursday in the rural southern Netherlands when a car struck a group of cyclists who were on a school camping trip, local emergency services said. Four more children were seriously injured in the incident. They were taken to hospitals in the Netherlands and nearby Belgium for treatment. The dead and injured were part of a group of 14 schoolchildren and two chaperones, the Zeeland Security Region organization said in a statement. Police are investigating the cause of the incident on a provincial road that runs between farmers' fields near...

This video discusses the sentencing and legal proceedings of four men involved in the June 2024 murder of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio (real name Charles Andrew Jones II) at a hotel in Tampa, Florida. Key events and points covered: Guilty Verdicts: All four defendants—Isaiah Chance, Shawn Gathright, Rashad Murphy, and DaVon Murphy—were found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy (0:01-1:02). Penalty Phase: The video focus es on the sentencing phase, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. It details what life in prison without parole entails in Florida, including the lack of parole and the potential for forced labor...

Thug Teen Collapses in Tears After Judge Slams No Bond for Cold-Blooded Murder This black 16-year-old killer screamed and fell apart like a weak coward in court when the judge denied bond and charged him as an adult. Sean Simpson, a gangster, gunned down innocent 16-year-old teen Zaquavious Dawkins in a drive-by while the boy ran a simple errand for his disabled mom. No more soft treatment for street thugs—real justice is here, and this black murderer is finally feeling the pain he caused. Lock him up for life.

In 2025, the number of officers feloniously killed fell to its lowest level since 2020. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center’s review of FBI LEOKA data, 53 officers were feloniously killed in 2025, down 17.2% from 2024. Early 2026 data also point lower, with 10 officers feloniously killed in the first three months of the year, compared with 15 in the same period of 2025 and 14 in the same period of 2024. The FBI’s LEOKA system relies on voluntary reporting from participating law enforcement agencies. The Officers Down Memorial Page (ODMP) appears to have more complete data than...

The vile street takeovers afflicting Los Angeles are getting more and more violent, police say, and they expect things will only get worse heading into the summer. Los Angeles cops swarmed more than 90 street takeovers already far in 2026, making at least 79 arrests, impounding 114 race cars, grabbing four stolen vehicles and seizing four firearms. At least five people were shot at LA county street takeovers this past weekend alone. Cops say the illegal gatherings are getting more and more bloody — and with warmer weather coming, things will only get worse. “There’s robberies, rapes, shootings, murders, stabbings,”...

🚨#BREAKING: A HORRIFYING story is currently unfolding in DeKalb County GA where a Black man has allegedly just sh*t a woman in the face 6-7 times and st*bbed her multiple times while she was just walking her dog in her neighborhood. He was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her, when interrupted by neighbors who called the police. The man is believed to be targeting women and has allegedly sh*t AT LEAST two women today.

🚨BREAKING: Four MS-13 gang members arrested in Senator @ChrisVanHollen’s Maryland for luring a 14-year-old boy into a park and hacking the child to death with machetes. Which anti-ICE Mommy wants to take these illegal alien killers home to play with their kids?

The U.S. is on pace for the largest one-year drop in murders the nation has ever recorded, according to an analysis by crime stats expert Jeff Asher. The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike. Mass killings in the U.S. also fell in 2025, reaching their lowest level since 2006. The Real-Time Crime Index, which compiles data from 570 law enforcement agencies, shows a nearly a 20% decline in murders this year compared with the same period in 2024. The database, which Asher used in his analysis, does...

TOMMY ROBINSON IN ISRAEL says what the media and politicians won’t October 15, 2025 by BareNakedIslam Robinson asked the question no one else will: Why were there no global protests demanding release of the hostages in Gaza? Why did world leaders stay silent for nearly 700 days while hostages were starved, tortured, raped, and murdered in the dark?

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - The sheriff has identified the three men who died in Mississippi County. Mississippi County Sheriff Britton Ferrell identified the first victim as Gerard Essner, 62, who is from the Benton, Chaffee, Oran area. Essner died on Monday night, Oct. 6. The second victim was an officer. The Sikeston Department of Public Safety confirmed one of its officers was killed in the line of duty on Oct. 6 while responding to the standoff. They say Henry Franklin was a member of the Sikeston DPS Tactical Team. Sheriff Ferrell said the man who barricaded himself inside the...

After decades of dead ends, Austin, Texas, police on Friday named deceased serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect in the city’s infamous yogurt shop murders. The announcement follows decades without answers in the December 1991 killings of four teenage girls—Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Sarah and Jennifer Harbison—at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop in Austin. The girls, aged 13, 15, and 17, were bound, gagged, and shot, before the shop was set on fire. The breakthrough comes with notable advancements in forensic DNA testing and renewed attention from an HBO docuseries about the case. Not...

The Associated Press has named Matthew James Ruth, 24, as the suspect in the deadly York County ambush of five police officers on Wednesday in North Codorus Township. Five officers were shot. Three were killed and two were critically wounded...

“I want to present some facts to the president of the United States, and I imagine this is alarming to the president to learn these facts.” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom. In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California. Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor...

"The Moscow Police Department released the bodycam footage from one of the officers who responded to the Idaho Murders crime scene on King Road after Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students. In the footage, officers spoke to the surviving roommates and witnesses on scene who reported seeing a man, dressed in all black, wearing a mask, telling the victims “you’re going to be okay, I’m going to help you.” Kohberger stabbed Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle to death inside the off-campus home in the early hours of November 13, 2022. He pleaded guilty to...