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Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 9:00 am
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Saturday reading from the Village Voice Empire: Fuller lived openly in Belize City, waging a public fight to avoid returning to Miami on charges he helped murder a man in 1990. Every year dozens of accused killers, drug smugglers, and rapists return to their homelands rather than face arrest and trial here. Miami New Times has the story.

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Monday, September 26, 2011 at 3:34 pm
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The Florida threesome went on a cross-country crime spree that only ended after a high speed chase with police in Colorado. How a stripper and her two brothers captivated the media and led police on a nationwide manhunt. Crime Library has the story.

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Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:42 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Houston police have been searching for Jose Gomez for 30 years. They found him yesterday -- only to discover he had been arrested several times since 1981 and went through undetected. Houston Press has the story.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 10:31 am
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We begin with the stats: Shanel Nadal is 28-years-old. She has eight children between the ages of 11 and 11-months-old. The seven boys are all named Nephra Payne, though she was kind enough to give them different middle names. The baby girl is known as Nefertiti...

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 1:28 pm
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Thomas and Paulette Propst were married in 1984. They would go on to have four kids, but Thomas, who did both time in the military and worked in a prison, was an abusive husband. Paulette filed for divorce last year, but she later rescinded her petition...

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 9:07 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Fike set off a nationwide Amber Alert with a frantic 911 call about being abducted. But cops found her in an area that's a magnet for runaways, her hair bleached and cut. Now she's looking at a false-reporting beef. Westword has the story.

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Monday, August 22, 2011 at 9:30 am

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Coffee break reading from the Village Voice Empire: August 18 is not Bobby Miller's lucky day: In 1992 he allegedly killed a woman in a home invasion, and in 2011 he was arrested for it. Police got new fingerprint evidence and tracked him down liiving in Las vegas under an assumed name.Houston Press has the story.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 8:20 am
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UPDATE: Paul Peters had been posing as a wealthy retiree and would-be author while living in Australia. But he'd apparently run out of money and decided to target the Pulvers. Detectives say he just made one very big mistake. See update after the jump...

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:56 am
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For further evidence of America's declining criminal civilization, we take you now to Summit County, Utah for today's installment of Morons of the Day. Where we once had Bonnie and Clyde, it seems we're now stuck with inept desperado couples like Roy and Jessica Fritts...

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Friday, August 12, 2011 at 9:02 am
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UPDATE: When Lee Grace Dougherty and her brothers noticed an unmarked car approaching them, they took off at speeds of 100 mph while shooting at police, only to be foiled by an off-duty cop working at a construction site. See update after the jump...


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