Category Archives: Crime

Forensics: Hate. A MAGA Influencer Targeted a West Hollywood Family. One Husband Is Now Facing a Felony.

A MAGA influencer targeted a West Hollywood couple with their baby, claimed to be from CNN, and left one husband facing a felony. Their full account. WEHOonline — Read on wehoonline.com/maga-influencer-west-hollywood-baby-confrontation/

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Forensics: Digital. Bryan Kohberger created a digital blackout during his brutal murders. FBI agent reveals how he turned it against the Idaho killer.

EXCLUSIVE: Despite Bryan Kohberger leaving behind his DNA at the crime scene in 2022, the digital footprint of a man who slaughtered four University of Idaho students was severely lacking. Now, for the first time, an FBI agent talks about … Continue reading

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Forensics: Using the wrong execution meds saved his life. Richard Glossip’s Road Map to Nowhere | Yale Law Journal

While the Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Glossip v. Oklahoma was heralded as a victory for the defense, this Essay argues that the case is actually a road… — Read on yalelawjournal.org/essay/glossips-road-map-to-nowhere1

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Forensics: Crime. Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at High School ICE Protest

The armed and masked off-duty Phoenix, Arizona, cop said he wanted to get kids at a high school ICE protest arrested. — Read on theintercept.com/2026/04/15/high-school-ice-protest-arizona-armed-cop/

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Forensics: Law. Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred – Democracy Docket

The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. — Read on … Continue reading

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Forensics: Law. Fired career DOJ prosecutor in Mich. abortion clinic case speaks out. Protected access to reproductive services.

Her firing came one day before Trump’s DOJ released a scathing take on Biden’s DOJ. — Read on http://www.aol.com/articles/fired-doj-prosecutor-mich-abortion-220145504.html

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Forensics: Junk Science. Jimmy Genrich’s 1993 Murder Charges Dismissed – Innocence Project

Mr. Genrich has spent 34 years wrongfully convicted of murder based on invalidated toolmark evidence, and now remains incarcerated on lesser charges due to a filing deadline technicality. — Read on innocenceproject.org/news/jimmy-genrichs-1993-murder-charges-dismissed/

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Forensics: Toolmark “matching to the exclusion of all other tools” takes a hike. DA files motion to dismiss murder charges in 1991 pipe bombings

The Mesa County district attorney is moving to dismiss murder charges against the man who was convicted of killing two people in a series of 1991 Grand Junction pipe bombings rather than go to a retrial. — Read on http://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/mesa-county-da-files-motion-to-dismiss-murder-charges-against-man-convicted-in-1991-pipe-bombings

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Forensics: Justice. Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated black man

A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands — Read on abcnews.com/US/wireStory/louisiana-gop-races-eliminate-elected-office-won-exonerated-131893449

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Forensics: Police Spent 16 Years Hunting a Serial Killer. Then They Discovered the Humiliating Scientific Truth.

The killer, who came to be known as the “Phantom of Heilbronn,” was actually the result of a critical forensic error. — Read on http://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/police-spent-16-years-hunting-123000246.html

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