Tag: crime
The Phantom of Heilbronn blunder – “Woman Without a Face” named Germany’s most dangerous woman and hunted for 15 years.
DNA evidence linked her to over 40 crimes including a string of six murders over sixteen years, dozens of high-profile thefts, and a deadly arson case. After DNA evidence linked her to the murder of a policewoman, a $400,000 bounty was placed on her head but the female serial killer dubbed the “Phantom of Heilbronn”,…
Dozens of razor blades found attached to playground equipment in an Illinois park. One toddler was injured.
Monsters of a different kind emerged in Illinois yesterday. Police say a two-year-old child was injured with cuts to his hand after a bizarre visit to Millennium Park in East Moline, Illinois. Authorities report they found at least a dozen razor blades glued to playground equipment in up-turned positions along handrails, swing handles, and monkey…
Woman places HIV infected syringes, exposed needle facing up, along fence around home to protect from burglars.
Police in Sobradinho, Brazil are investigating a women who taped HIV infected syringes, needle tips exposed, along the top rail of a fence that surrounds her condo in order to protect her home from robbers. The woman, who is a doctor at a nearby hospital, said she placed the needles on the fence after being…
For first time in nation’s history, police in Iceland shoot and kill someone
It began with a crazed man firing a shotgun in his apartment in Rejkjavik, the capital of Iceland. The police first fired tear gas canisters through the windows of the man’s apartment. When the tear gas failed to subdue the 59-year-old man, they entered the man’s apartment in an attempt to apprehend him. The man…
Truck containing lethal radioactive cobalt-6o hijacked in Mexico. Thieves will “without a doubt die”
Well, this can’t be good… The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency announced today that a pair of thieves in Mexico have stolen a truck containing highly dangerous atomic materials – just the sort of material that would be used with explosives to construct a radioactive dirty bomb.
Gambler Archie Karas during “The Run” – turns $50 into $40 million then loses it all.
At the age of 15, after a violent fight with his father, Archie Karas ran away from home then hopped on an international ship taking a job as a waiter. By the time his ship reached America, he understood not only what it took to survive, but had the wherewithal (and intelligence) to grow rich…
Police training with new sonar equipment at local lake find SIX dead bodies in two different submerged cars.
Police in southwestern Oklahoma were training with new sonar location equipment at Foss Lake on September 17, 2013 when they discovered two decades-old mud-covered vintage cars containing six skeletons at the bottom of the lake. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers were training with the new equipment near the tiny town of Foss in Custer County, about…
Splatter blood for blood spatter analysis experiment – how to conduct forensic bloodstain pattern analysis just like the pros.
In addition to figuring out who did it, police have to figure out how they did it. And to do that, they often use a technique called blood spatter (not “splatter”) analysis.
Awh, how sweet. Thieves break into nonprofit for 2nd time to return stolen equipment – with an apology note.
Pitiful thieves broke into a southern Los Angeles nonprofit stealing laptops and other computer equipment this week. Then after finding out what the business was, a nonprofit that helps victims of sexual violence, they returned to the scene of the crime a second time in order to return all of the stolen equipment – and…
