Recent content by illyana

Probably his first capital crime, because while he planned it, he screwed up too much. However, he may have done other serious crimes before this, like stalking, window peeping, flashing, burglary, and rape. But if he's killed before, that's possible too. We can be confident Pennsylvania is...

I see these liars solved the case. Can we agree such bald-faced frauds never get to speak in public again.

Sad and mysterious case. Just listened to the Citizen Detective podcast. I don't have much to add to what the participants and experts had to say, except a few comments on the weapon used in the beheading. This house was extremely isolated and heavily wooded. It would make sense that the...

Not even remotely. Groundless speculations shoved into a press release. Somebody has a book to sell. This is not familial DNA, this is not anything an actual prosecutor is proposing, it's not the Golden State Killer or BTK. It's a whole lotta nothing.

The Vietnam War took ten years and did nothing but kill and maim thousands of Americans and who knows how many Vietnamese. The press at least finally tried to expose this insanity, the whole Pentagon Papers. The Afghan War took twenty years and did nothing but kills and maim thousands of...

There's no such thing as a universal police procedure, fortunately or unfortunately. These kind of situations can turn into everything from a murderer getting away with it to horrible wrongful convictions. It's a case by case thing, and in earlier days before decent forensics, seems like people...

I don't focus on a single case, but injustice in general, so they come and go. But I heard a True Crime Brewery podcast today about how this psychopathic wannabe opera singer in New Zealand murdered his entire family - plot twist, he was the son, not the father -- and was convicted to life in...

You're right, that is the most notorious case in California. For Colorado, it has to be Jon-Benet.

I'm also skeptical. This is not a sure thing like the Golden State Killer with familial DNA. This is a theory, nothing convincing. And the news articles I read were garbled, they were hasty, not careful long-form accounts. The news accounts threw in weird things about him running a "posse" -...

If we're going to hold police officers liable for murder, then we need to hold judges and lawyers accountable for murder too. "Oh, hi Judge, you let a violent stalker out of prison without bail and he went on to murder his girlfriend? Guess what, Judge, you're now an accessory to murder. That's...

I will make three predictions: * The monster has raped children before, but was released by "qualified experts" who took a "compassionate view" to improve their career * The monster will be showered with more legal protections and help than anything the families of his victims will receive *...

Thank you for your reply, so I don't feel alone in thinking about justice for the victims first. This line of thinking is just a mental illness, and maybe we need laws that whenever a single person tries to have romantic relations with a convicted killer they get mandatory therapy instead.

Did anyone else read this monstrosity of an article on Believer about Ted Bundy? It's practically a love letter to a serial killer, while attacking Dr. Robert Hare and anyone who is in favor of the death penalty - as if Bundy twice escaping prison to rape and murder again wasn't argument enough...

In California, nobody seems to know who killed Nichole Brown and Ronald Goldman, even if everyone else knows.

Can a kid kill another kid? Yes, rarely. Can a kid as young as Burke lure his sister into the basement and do all the horrible *advertiser censored* that was done to her? No. This was the crime of an adult.