This blog has previously wrote several articles involving the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case that captivated the country back in 2012 and 2013. The volunteer neighborhood watchman shot teenage Trayvon Martin. Prosecutors called it murder, George Zimmerman’s criminal defense attorney called it self defense. After much media attention, multiple protests and…
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Bad luck or murder? Trial is now for man who lost two wives
A major case gets going this week as a man prosecutors accuse of killing not one but two of his wives goes to trial in Colorado. Did Harold Henthorn murder two of his wives for insurance money or is he a victim of horrible luck? 59-year-old Harold Henthorn went to…
Bradenton man arrested for attempted sex assault
A local man was arrested for an attempted sex assault and kidnapping of a realtor. The attack caused plenty of fright and had real estate agents on edge until the suspect was captured… 63-year-old Bruce Kotter was arrested and charged with kidnapping and attempted sexual battery of a realtor that…
Suspects captured in Bradenton homicide
A quick blurb from a BayNews9 article about a local crime that shocked the community. Three suspects are now in custody in a killing where there is more then meets the eye… Bradenton police have arrested three suspects in last weeks double homicide that shocked the community. Security footage showed…
Country singer killed by bounty hunter in a shoot out
What happened, while sad, actually sounds like a country song come to life! A bounty hunter, a desperado and a gun fight…that sounds like old school country. In Lynchburg, Tennessee a bounty hunter got into a shoot out with country singer Randy Howard leaving the singer dead. While details were…
Policeman uses his patrol car to ram man who had gun
CBS News has another case where a suspect is alleging police misconduct. Is this just another in a flurry of police brutality cases or was the cop a hero who saved innocent lives by his action? It was like a scene from an action movie. The suspect is walking down…
A male “black widow”? Man may be charged with killing his two wives
Once is a tragedy but is twice murder? Colorado prosecutors think so and is charging a man with the death of both his first AND second wife. A local CBS story has more information. 58-year-old Harold Henthorn is accused of pushing his wife off a cliff in Rocky Mountain park…
Hazing or murder? Florida man guilty of manslaughter
From an Orlando news station, a former Florida A & M bandmember has been convicted of manslaughter for his actions in the hazing death of another man. Former FAMU percussionist Dante Martin was found guilty of manslaughter and multiple counts of hazing in what the prosecutor is saying sends a…
80-year-old Florida man beaten in a diner
As first reported in the smoking gun website, an octogenarian was beaten inside a “family” chain restaurant after asking the defendant to stop cursing… An 80-year-old man was the victim of a battery on an elderly charge after he was repeatedly punched and thrown to the ground by the suspect.…
Florida babysitter stabs client for refusing her advances
From the smoking gun website, a Florida woman is arrested for aggravated battery after she stabbed her client for refusing to have sex with her! 22-year-old Shakieria Anquanette Shan Long was arrested by police earlieer this month for stabbing her client in the neck. His crime? Refusing her sexual advances…