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his mother doubled down on claims her son may have been murdered.“Many factors discussed with the police and coroner do not add up to [a] simple overdose,” the child star’s fiancée told The Sun. “I want to know what really happened so I can focus on raising our son Prince without constantly losing sleep on what happened to his father every night.” Carter was found dead in the bathtub of his California home on Nov.

found dead in a taxi on the Lower East Side in April.The second man, D.C. resident John Umberger, was found dead in an Upper East Side townhouse a month later. Following their deaths, the men’s families discovered that thieves had drained the victims’ bank accounts using facial recognition technology.

The Torso Killer Confessions,” Anzilotti has now closed his seventh cold-case linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham: the murder of Mary Ann Della Sala, who was 17 when she vanished in January 1967 after working her shift at the Shop-Rite on Essex Street in Hackensack.Her body was found three months later in the Passaic River in Hawthorne; the case remained unsolved until March 2022, when Anzilotti elicited a confession from Cottingham, kept secret until now. Cottinghman, 76, is serving six life sentences after terrorizing Bergen County and the surrounding area with a string of brutal, unsolved murders from at least 1967 until his arrest in 1980.“I was determined … to use my retirement as a tool to get [Cottingham] to talk about more of those [cold] cases,” Anzilotti, 53, told The Post.

On Oct. 29, 1990, the severed head and feet of 25-year-old gay porn actor Billy London, aka William “Bill” Newton, were found inside a Hollywood dumpster. The gruesome cold case has haunted West Hollywood for more than 32 years. It was the gay community’s version of the Black Dahlia murder. But it seems that a group of amateur sleuths has helped solve the case, according to the Los Angeles Times. Photos: ONE Archives and Rachel Mason.

the 2018 slaying as the two rappers had a public feud. Court documents showed that Drake — whose real name is Aubrey Graham — was ordered to appear virtually to answer questions in Broward County Court on Feb.

true crime shows may help prepare you if you find yourself in a similar situation, according to an expert on morbid curiosity.Coltan Scrivner, a research scientist at Recreational Fear Lab and an expert in morbid curiosity, feels there’s an almost primal reason people are endlessly fascinated by true crime content. According to Scrivner, morbid curiosity about dangerous people likely began some 300,000 years ago when humans began using language and engaging in proactive aggression instead of reactive aggression. “Now this presents a problem for people because with proactive aggression it’s hard to tell who is plotting to harm you,” says Scrivner. “So this put a selection pressure on our minds to learn to seek out information about people who are potentially dangerous.“True crime can have a learning component to it or at least a perceived learning component.

The Guardian that she hadn’t seen the series in its entirety, but “it didn’t happen like that.”“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes, 85, said. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she added, before saying it was difficult to discuss Tony’s murder and ending the interview.Tony, who was deaf and could not speak, was picked up by Dahmer at a Milwaukee gay bar on May 24, 1991, when Tony was 31. Dahmer took him home, drugged him, dismembered his body and kept his skull, according to the Associated Press.“When it first happened, I thought I would lose my mind,” Shirley told AP in 1992.In the Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy, Dahmer (Evan Peters) is seen donating money to the search effort for Tony (Rodney Burford) while, behind closed doors, cooking and eating his liver.

criticism from the family members of Dahmer’s victims, with some arguing the platform should have reached out to them beforehand about the series. “No matter what, it isn’t a good feeling for the family members, but it wasn’t a documentary, it’s a work of fiction,” Glass said. “For example, this idea that neighbors called all the time, they didn’t.

actress and model, was brutally stabbed and strangled to death along with four others by members of the Manson family in her Beverly Hills home, 53 years ago this week.Debra Tate told The Sun that she met with Manson at the LA County Jail shortly after he was arrested and accused of being behind what became known as the “Helter Skelter” murders.Debra met with a shackled Manson in jail but neither said a thing. “I had two guards next to me, and we just sat there looking at each other for about 10 minutes,” she said.

documentary — premiering Wednesday on HBO — Ostroy directed about his late wife, actress Adrienne Shelly, he shows some of those pictures to the man who killed Sophie’s mother when the girl was just two.“Adrienne missed a lot,” Ostroy tells Diego Pillco during an emotionally charged visit to the killer’s prison in upstate New York.Dropping Sophie’s images onto a table in turn, he describes each one in detail.

white police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota in May 2020, an incident that prompted protests around the world. It was developed over the past year by Iran’s Basij paramilitary force — a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — at the behest of IRGC General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the Sun reported.

the killing of Gabby Petito — which critics claim is a sick ploy to cash in on the nationwide fascination with the case.

on HBO Max, recalls a bizarre event: The first time an American ever pleaded not guilty to a crime on account of being inhabited by an evil spirit.Arne Cheyenne Johnson, 19, was charged with murdering his landlord, Alan Bono in cold blood in 1981 while the pair fought over his girlfriend, Debbie Glatzel, 26.

spokesman later told the Daily Mail that they’d “received reports of what was believed to be a body bag in Houghton Regis.”Thankfully, Louise was able to explain to the cops that she had, in fact, “not killed anyone,” she said.

Above Suspicion,” out now. The story is a tragic tale of how one man’s ambition and another woman’s wild infatuation collided with deadly consequences.Connecticut native Putnam was 27 years old and just out of the FBI Academy when he found himself stationed in Pikeville, Kentucky, a small Appalachian town three hours from Lexington with a practically unsupervised two-agent outpost.

as part of a divorce settlement.Although the red-roofed, white mansion with multiple turrets offers 360-degree views of San Gabriel Valley on a 2.5-acre hill, the property had trouble selling, according to Realtor.com — perhaps, in part, due to its infamous history.Legendary “Wall of Sound” pioneer Spector met 40-year-old actress and model Lana Clarkson at the House of Blues VIP Foundation Room during a night out in 2003 and invited her to the nine bedroom, seven-and-a-half bathroom home

Things Heard & Seen.” An unhappy young mother (Amanda Seyfried) is brutally murdered with an ax, her child is found eerily seated on the couch downstairs and a studious husband (James Norton) leaves shortly after the crime.That depraved déjà vu is because the supernatural movie, which is based on Elizabeth Brundage’s novel “All Things Cease To Appear,” was partly inspired by the gruesome 1982 death of Cathleen Krauseneck in Brighton, NY — dubbed “the Brighton Ax Murder.”On Feb.

Hulu.The three-part program “Sasquatch,” premiering Tuesday, April 20, explores a wild theory that the mythical creature may be responsible for long-rumored murders and disappearances of three unidentified Mexican men in northern California in 1993. But is Bigfoot really the prime suspect in a decades-old string of cold cases about men reportedly torn limb from limb, for whom no bodies were ever found — and which exist only as horrific hearsay?That depends on who you ask.The out-there legend of

Instagram tribute Saturday, hours after he was shot dead in the Bay area.“Yase loved his fans, he worked every day for y’all. We have hundreds of songs coming for you.

Veteran “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz has gone digital with his first podcast.

2 min read Two men have been arrested allegedly in relation to the murders of transgender women whose burned bodies were found in Puerto Rico on April 22.

A notorious landlord vanished off the streets of New York City in a sensational, caught-on-tape kidnapping in 2014 — and when his body turned up the next day in a dumpster, cops already had plenty of potential suspects on tap.