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Estranged wife of Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann says he's not capable of murders: Lawyer

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In this Aug. 1, 2023, file photo, Rex A. Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei in Suffolk County Court, in Central Islip, New York. (James Carbone, Pool via Getty Images)

(NEW YORK) — The estranged wife of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann maintains that her husband is “not capable of the crimes he is accused of,” her attorney said in a new statement on Wednesday.. ...Read Full Story

Mahogany Jackson texted she was kidnapped. Days later eight suspects were charged in her murder

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Mahogany Jackson is seen pictured. (Birmingham Police Department)

(NEW YORK) — Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was found shot in the back of the head on Feb. 26 by the side of a road in a remote area in Birmingham, Alabama, hours after she texted her mother saying that she had been kidnapped and asking for help, according to the Birmingham Police Department (BPD).. ...Read Full Story

Video shows James Crumbley told police where to find guns after son's school shooting

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(PONTIAC, Mich.) — In a prosecution that has largely mirrored evidence from his wife’s trial, previously unseen video was shown in court Tuesday of James Crumbley telling police where to find guns in their home before authorities executed a search warrant in the hours after Ethan Crumbley, the couple’s son, killed four people in a school shooting in Michigan.. ...Read Full Story

How the crime of counterfeiting is making a comeback

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(MINNEAPOLIS) — The U.S. dollar is perhaps the most recognized in the world, accepted nearly everywhere and viewed as one of the most reliable, stable currencies of any nation. Which is why, at a time when consumers swipe or tap a card to pay for most anything, the U.S. Secret Service reported that they seized nearly 22 million dollars in counterfeit cash last year.. ...Read Full Story

After dayslong manhunt, man arrested in fatal shooting of mom, 11-year-old in parked car in Massachusetts

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Dejan Belnavis, 27, was arrested on charges of armed assault to murder and carrying a firearm without a license, police said. (Worcester Police Department/Facebook)

(NEW YORK) — After a dayslong manhunt, a suspect has been taken into custody in the fatal shooting of a mother and her 11-year-old daughter in Massachusetts, authorities said.. ...Read Full Story

Suspect in NYC subway attack that left woman's feet severed was arrested in violent 2017 home invasion: Police

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(NEW YORK) — A 35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of pushing his girlfriend onto the New York City subway tracks causing both her feet to be severed by an incoming train, had been imprisoned for attacking a woman and threatening to hurl her child off a fire escape during a 2017 home invasion, according to police.. ...Read Full Story

UFOs in storage? Findings about alien technology from exhaustive Pentagon review

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(WASHINGTON) — A wide-ranging Pentagon review of decades of U.S. government investigations into UFO sightings has found no evidence that any of the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin and also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have ever possessed extraterrestrial technology that has been secretly reverse-engineered.. ...Read Full Story

A mother's 13-year journey for justice and an exclusive look at the FBI investigation that solved her daughter's murder

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(NEW YORK) — In April 2009, Brittanee Drexel told her mother she would be spending a few days at a friend’s house in Rochester, New York. But what Dawn Drexel didn’t know was that her 17-year-old daughter was really more than 800 miles away on a spring break trip in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, without permission.. ...Read Full Story