Criminology

Tattooed 10-Year-Old's Mom Arrested

Seeded on Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:32 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Tattooed 10-Year-Old's Mom Arrested Chuntera Napier allowed son to get a tattoo in honor of his dead brother... read more...

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Man tells court it was dog who strangled wife

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:36 AM EST (The Local - Germany's news in English)

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A German man suspected of strangling his wife has pointed the finger at the family dog instead, saying the Labrador could have smothered her to death by accident.

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Thieves tunnel under cash machine

Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:38 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

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Thieves went to extreme lengths to get their hands on some money when they dug a 100ft tunnel under a building to get to a cash machine. Detectives believe the criminals responsible could have spent up to six months digging the passageway. Police have not yet revealed how muc …

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How to Get Out of a Ticket

Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:14 AM EST (Men's Health)

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Parking Tickets A lot of people won’t fight parking tickets because they think they can’t fight city hall.

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Facial Recognition: Beating Surveillance Cameras

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:43 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

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Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks or airport checkpoints may be on the lookout for robbers or would-be terrorists, using facial recognition technology to match pictures to existing ones.

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Deranged killer heads for Britain

Seeded on Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:31 AM EST ()

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A deranged killer who hacked his mother to pieces with a meat cleaver and fled with her head is believed to be coming to Britain to murder his mum's fiance, who is working in England, say police in Lithuania.

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Giffords Shooting: Why did six people have to die last year at a grocery store near Tucson?

Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 11:15 AM EST (The Arizona Republic)

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by Tom Zoellner - This was the work of a single disturbed individual, but this is a connected universe and events never happen in a vacuum.

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Dead Teen Sued for Losing Control of Flying Body Parts

Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 9:37 PM EST ()

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You think you've heard it all until I tell you that an appeals court in Illinois recently ruled that a woman is allowed to sue a dead teen's estate for injuries caused by his flying body parts. The woman, 58, was struck by a sizable chunk of the boy's body and was knocked to t …

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Babysitter Stored Head, Hands and Feet of 9-Year-Old Girl in Freezer After Hitting Her With Brick and Dismembering Her

Seeded on Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:07 PM EST (ABC News)

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A police affidavit submitted to the court today stated that Plumadore "freely admitted" that in the "early morning hours" last Thursday, he struck Aliahna in the head multiple times with a brick "while she was standing on the front steps of his residence." Police Affidavit Con …

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