Photo by Lacy Atkins/Shutterstock (10050790h) Cyntoia Brown smiles at family members during her clemency hearing Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Earlier in this series I wrote about Cyntoia Brown and the crime she was convicted of aged 16. This week there was a major update...
JonBenet Ramsey. Photo: Zuma Press For more than 20 years, the death of JonBenet Ramsey has fascinated the media and public at large. The death of the child beauty pageant star over Christmas 1996 shocked America. The death of any child is tragic, but what made the...
Monica Seles holds up the winner’s cup after defeating Germany’s Steffi Graf in the final of the French Open 06 June 1992. Photo credit: JEAN-LOUP GAUTREAU/AFP/Getty Images In recent years the sport of tennis had to contend with a large match-fixing...
Patty Hearst, in handcuffs, was escorted into the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles in 1976. (Charles E. Young Research Library, U.C.L.A.) More than 45 after the event, the kidnapping of Patty Hearst still fascinates people. The mystery of what really happened...
Amanda Knox In 2016, Netflix released a documentary called Amanda Knox. It told the story of the murder of English student Meredith Kercher and the trials that followed. It included interviews with Amanda Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, the prosecutor...
