A woman has been jailed for eight and a half years after being found guilty of lying about being raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang, and making false rape claims against a series of other men. Eleanor Williams, 22, from Barrow-in-Furness was convicted in January of nine counts of perverting the course of … Read more
Lauren Pazienza was sentenced to 8½ years in state prison on Friday after shoving 87-year-old vocal coach Barbara Gustern to her death last year, according to multiple outlets including the New York Post and Newsday. On Aug. 23, the New York City woman pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter and agreed to a sentencing of eight years in state prison, followed … Read more
After a federal judge rejected a negotiated sentence between the government and the defense, a 55-year-old former officer with the New Orleans Police Department was sentenced to twice as much prison time for sexually assaulting a teen girl he once brought to a hospital for a rape kit. Rodney Vicknair was sentenced to serve 14 … Read more
A man who confessed to the 2004 sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old Illinois girl has died in a state prison, according to state records. Scott Eby, 52, an inmate at the Menard Correctional Center, died on Thursday, according to an online inmate notification system. The death of Riley Fox, whose body was found in a … Read more
After Jeffrey Spaide fatally shot two of his neighbors, James Goy and Lisa Goy, he then turned the gun on himself. On the snowy morning of February 1, 2021, three bodies were found in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, in what officials ruled a murder-suicide. The deadly incident in the sleepy town came after a heated argument … Read more
A Montana man was sentenced to 100 years in prison for unintentionally shooting and killing his 8-year-old daughter while firing shots at the girl’s mother and his son. Tony Louis Valez, 66, of Helena, learned his fate on Wednesday, when Lewis and Clark District Court Judge Mike Menahan handed down the sentence. In September, Valez … Read more