Criminal

Amnesty International Senior Death Penalty Abolition Campaigner about the new Global Report on Executions released today and the pending execution of 8 men in Arkansas.

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Wouldn’t he just love for us to tell you his name. But we aren’t going to. Instead we are going to shout out Charlotte Laws, a mother and a campaigner who fought to have photos of her daughter taken down from a website that prided itself on so-called “revenge porn” and ruining people’s lives.

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Between 2007 and 2010, the Bocas del Toro province of Panama seemed to have become somewhat of a Bermuda Triangle for American ex-pats who had decided to take root in the Caribbean Coastal area. Within those 3 years, 5 Americans mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving their family and friends desperately searching for answers.
This is a really special episode because we got to partner up with the host of Pretend Radio, Javier Leiva. Recently Javier covered a case he thought our listeners might find interesting and passed on his script and interviews with us.

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On August 12, 2021, Gabrielle Petito and Brian Laundrie were pulled over outside of Moab, Utah. The police officer, whose body cam was on, initially stopped their van for speeding and reckless driving. He realized Gabby was distraught and tried to establish what had happened and why Gabby was so upset. He was soon joined by another officer who had been responding to a possible domestic violence call in town where a witness said he saw a couple driving away in a white van, with a woman named Gabby. 

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In the early morning of November 28, 1953, 42-year-old Army scientist Frank Olson "went out the window" of a room in New York City’s Statler Hotel. Did he jump or fall? Was it an accident or was it murder?

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On the night of December 3rd, 1997 Frank Dosso was supposed to be home from work by 5:30 pm, just in time to celebrate his twin daughters’ 10th birthday. But when he never showed up, his family drove out to his office looking for him.

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What’s next for Erik and Lyle Mendez who have so far served 33 years of their life sentences without the possibility of parole? Is there a chance for a new trial now that another person, Roy Rossello, has come forward with the accusation that their father Jose Menendez also raped him when he was an underage member of the boy band Menudo? Could this be a new piece of evidence to corroborate the brothers’ story that Jose sexually abused them, a key part of their original defense, which was excluded from their second trial?

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In the spring of 2019, an expectant teen mother living in Chicago, Illinois was eagerly preparing for the birth of her second child. Although money was tight, Marlen Ochoa Uriostegui Lopez was determined to have her baby's nursery ready in time before she delivered.

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" We examine the behavior of the killer, how stalking became part of the profile and how the victims were considered to be in "low risk situations."

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Monday, April 23rd, 2018 was a surprisingly warm day in Toronto, Ontario, causing residents to be out in droves, ditching their winter coats, eager to enjoy the sunshine.
Among those taking advantage of the warmer weather, was 68 year old Catherine Riddell, headed to the library off of Yonge Street, when a van suddenly struck her from behind.
The vehicle had hit Catherine with such force, it sent her body flying in the air, before crashing through a transit shelter.

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