The miracle of the massacre: First picture of the son born to wife who survived Dark Knight slayings… as her uninsured critical husband is in coma and faces $2M medical bill

Hugo Jackson Medley ‘doing great’ after being born to mother Katie who survived massacre
Caleb and Katie Medley went to film as final date night before birth of son
Caleb shot in head and has lost eye and suffered brain damage
Family face financial ruin as Caleb’s medical bills are estimated to cost $2 million
Friends have set up a website to raise money for his care which has so far seen $186,000 donated

Remains [...]

Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico

Suspected drug gang killers dumped the headless bodies of 49 people on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years.

The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the [...]

Were they murdered by a serial killer? Corpses of TWELVE women found near Mexican border

Forensics tests have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the U.S. border are those of girls and women, authorities announced on Monday, fueling fears that young women in the Ciudad Juarez area may once again the targets of serial slayings.

The sets of bones were found in January and February in fields in the Juarez valley, east of Ciudad Juarez, and experts have discovered an alarming similarity in [...]

Chinese students killed in mystery shooting at USC

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The slayings of two USC graduate students early Wednesday about a mile from the campus has shaken the university as police swarmed the area looking for the killer.

One of the victims, a man in his 20s, attempted to run for help after being shot but never made it. He was found collapsed on a porch, police said. The other victim, a woman [...]

US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghani civilians did NOT act alone. This is a textbook case of scapegoating and putting “a single name” to the atrocity. Villagers are telling a different story.

RESIDENTS of an Afghan village near where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians are convinced that the slayings were in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack on US forces in the same area a few days earlier.

In accounts to The Associated Press and to Afghan government officials, the residents allege that US troops lined up men from the village of Mokhoyan against a wall after the [...]

COPS: Father shoots couple who had de-friended his daughter on FACEBOOK

 

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.

The victims had complained to police that Marvin’s Potter’s daughter was harassing them after they deleted her as a friend on the social networking site, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday.

Potter, 60, has been [...]

An innocent man serves 18 years on death row. When lawyers are finally about to prove his innocence, the state “forces” him to sign an agreement not to sue the state in order to not spend years more in prison.

West Memphis 3: Freed Death Row Prisoner Makes Film about 18-Year Battle to Prove His Innocence

We turn now to the case of the West Memphis Three, the young men in West Memphis, Arkansas, who were imprisoned for the 1993 slayings of three eight-year-old boys after an investigation largely fueled by unsubstantiated rumors of a Satanic ritual. The new documentary, “West of Memphis,” was co-produced by none other than one of [...]

Immigrant felon freed by Obama deportation halt — went on to murder three

In a year-old mystery, a felon freed after he could not be returned to Haiti killed three people. Was it random, or was he working with someone?
BY DAVID OVALLE
DOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM

When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti.

That never happened.

Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term [...]

Immigrant felon freed by Obama deportation halt — went on to murder three

In a year-old mystery, a felon freed after he could not be returned to Haiti killed three people. Was it random, or was he working with someone?

BY DAVID OVALLE
DOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM

When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti.

That never happened.

Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term [...]

Mysterious blasts, slayings suggest covert efforts in Iran

Iranian students break into the British Embassy in Tehran late last month, where they started a fire and removed the British flag. (Abedin Taherkenareh, European Pressphoto Agency / November 29, 2011)

By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles TimesDecember 4, 2011, 7:29 p.m.

Reporting from Washington—

At an Iranian military base 30 miles west of Tehran, engineers were working on weapons that the armed forces chief of staff had boasted could giveIsrael a “strong punch in the mouth.”

But then a huge explosion [...]

Police: Trucker Killed 3 Prostitutes Across South

Police: Trucker Killed 3 Prostitutes Across South. John Boyer [Pic in URL] has pleaded guilty to killing a woman in North Carolina and faces murder charges in slayings in Tennessee and South Carolina. By EMERY P. DALESIO, JEFFREY COLLINS

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Long-haul trucker John Boyer’s gray beard and round face give him a grandfatherly appearance, but when he opens his mouth, he seethes with anger [...]

Two NYPD Cops Eyed in Long Island Killings

Two NYPD cops are being eyed in the Long Island serial slayings after investigators learned they got into trouble for hiring prostitutes while working for the department, according to sources familiar with the probe.

One cop was forced out of the job in the 1990s when his supervisors learned he spent time pursuing hookers and paying street walkers and down-and-out women for sex while he was [...]

A murder a day in Dallas

DALLAS – At 2:00 in the afternoon on May 13, Dallas reported its 13 murder of the month.

A sudden five-percent spike in killings comes after years of declines. In fact, Dallas hit a 50-year low in 2010.

Detectives can’t explain it, though some have suggested that the economy might be to blame.

However, one thing is clear: the homicide unit is scrambling to keep up with the unsolved cases.

Earlier this week, [...]