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Is it cruel to make a kitten goth? 3
By Denise Grollmus in Sex crimes, fugitives, kidnapping
Tuesday, Feb. 9 2010 @ 7:00AM
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​To be awarded a spot on our weekly Fugitive Watch, you can't be just any old sucker running from the law. Take, for example, this week's person of interest: Benito Vargas, a notorious human trafficker who is now hiding in Mexico after one of his slaves was discovered by police...
 
Thursday, Jan. 28 2010 @ 10:42AM
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​UPDATE: Police believe they've found 2-year-old Aveion Lewis in a landfill in Virginia. Though they're still waiting for a medical examiner's report, they seem to have concluded their search. See update after the jump...

Tags: Virginia
By Denise Grollmus in Lists, Police bungling, Sex crimes, kidnapping, robbery
Thursday, Jan. 28 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​In order to bring you the Top 5 Police Blunders Of The Week, we seldom have to look outside our borders to find crooked cops. But this week, we couldn't ignore the fact that British police officer Stephen Mitchell was recently arrested for sexually assaulting and raping at least 19 different women...

Wednesday, Jan. 27 2010 @ 2:37PM
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​UPDATE: According to a protection order she filed for last August, Tonya Hobbs says her husband threatened to kill her and beat her daughters to death with a hammer is she ever left him. See update after the jump...


Tags: Oklahoma
Saturday, Jan. 23 2010 @ 3:07PM
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​He's been likened to Elmore Leonard, but that might be undercutting Stella a tad. For pure crime fiction escapism, Stella likely has the upper hand in this story of a hooker with a past, a Russian mafioso with a moronic brother, and a snuff film no one wants seeing the light of day...

Friday, Jan. 15 2010 @ 12:43PM

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​UPDATE: Police now say kidnapping story was fabricated, and that stepdad Brandon Lockett has admitted that Aveion was dead before he called police. See updated story here.

Tags: Virginia
Saturday, Jan. 9 2010 @ 6:04AM
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​In today's Book Review, we turn to Sweden, where Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom light up the pages of Box 21, the tale of an aging detective who's stalking a sex slave ring while simultaneously trying to take down a hit man who left his partner incapacitated 25 years before...

Wednesday, Dec. 23 2009 @ 2:25PM
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​UPDATE: Michael has been returned to the hospital after suffering from breathing problems. You can find the updated story here...




Wednesday, Dec. 23 2009 @ 8:00AM

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​Claudia Lawrence, 35, was last seen leaving work at Britain's University of York in March. Although police considered her disappearance suspicious during the early days of their missing persons probe, they soon feared that she came to harm after meeting up with someone she knows...

Tags: Britain
Monday, Dec. 21 2009 @ 7:00AM

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​On the evening of December 20, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews sang Christmas carols with her school choir.  Afterward, she was driven home by a classmate and her mother.  They dropped Jonelle off in front of her house in Greeley, Colorado. Her friends watched her walk into the house before driving away...

Tags: Colorado