Alicia Cardenas’s friends knew she had enemies, but they never thought she was in imminent danger. With her thick gray and black hair, piercings, and tattoos on nearly every inch of her body, Cardenas was both a physical force and an iron-willed artist who friends say wielded her words with …
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Nineteen-year-old Cal Poly student Kristin Smart went missing after a campus party 25 years ago, and, this summer, her case is finally getting its day in court. In April, Paul Flores, 44, was arrested on one count of murder in connection to the case, and his father, Ruben Flores, 80, …
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Can a book be deadly? That’s the question iHeartRadio original podcastHit Mansets out to answer. Hosted by StoryCorps’ Jasmyn Belcher Morris, the series delves into what is often referred to as“the most dangerous publisher in the world,”Paladin Press, and its most controversial title,Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors. …
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On early Wednesday morning, Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted at age 16 of killing a 43-year-old Nashville man, finally walked out of prison after years of activists aggressively campaigning for her release. Brown had served 15 years of her life sentence before she was granted clemency. In 2006, Brown was …
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A 17-year-old Instagram celebrity was brutally murdered allegedly by an obsessed male friend who then posted images of the slaying on Instagram, gaming website Discord, and 4chan, prompting an outpouring of shock and horror on social media. The victim, Bianca Devins, is a 17-year-old so-called “egirl” who lived in Utica, …
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The June 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard captured headlines not simply because of its brutality —Blanchard was stabbed 17 times — but the bizarre story that motivated her killers. Days after 48-year-old Blanchard was found dead in her Springfield, Missouri, home, her daughter, Gypsy Rose, and her daughter’s …
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A preliminary report from the autopsy of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts has ruled the death a “homicide resulting from multiple sharp force injuries,” according to CNN. The Brooklyn, Iowa, college student disappeared during an evening jog five weeks ago; her body was recovered from a cornfield on Tuesday, after authorities were …
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