Where to begin with this National Fraud Takedown that made my eyes blur. The investigation yielded 243 indictments of doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals in several states. Who cares? We all should. If you aren’t old enough to worry about Medicare now, that day will come. The schemers collectively netted about $712 million of our tax dollars in false billings.   Fraud cases make me angry, but I lose interest when reading about them because the content is complex and, to be honest, boring.   Are fraud case indictments page-turning reads? No. Are the frequency ..read more

Having been a certified school bus driver for almost 20 years, I notice crimes committed by school bus drivers. Mostly, because I think school bus drivers deserve more kudos—so when one does something bad, I feel disheartened. Yes, the man in this true crime was at some point a school bus driver, but that did not factor into his crime(s). When the state attorney filed sexual assault charges against him, the alleged assault victim was not a student who rode on his bus, but a child he’d babysat. Still a horrendous act.   The authorities arrested him on the sexual assault charges, he sat ..read more

Almost one year before the true crime, in this summary, the perpetrator had been a victim of a shooting. After being laid off from his job, he started a mobile ice cream truck business. At the end of a workday, someone in a vehicle flagged him down, so he pulled over, thinking they wanted ice cream. They robbed him, shot him, and left him for dead.   They shot the ice cream man in a leg, his chest, and left arm—damaging his wrist and knuckles. He ended up having limited movement in his dominate hand.   After he had healed as much as was possible, he began investigating his crime ..read more

Workplace romances can be the start of a lifelong marriage. It can also end and make work life uncomfortable for both people. At the time of this true crime, the woman was 31. The man was 24.   She had a degree in biology and criminal justice. He had a degree in cellular and molecular biology. They met at work and dated for three months. She broke up with him.   He wanted to get back together. She didn’t. On one occasion, when he told her he wanted to get back together, and she said no, he got angry and, in public, called her some vulgar names. The next day, he apologized for his be ..read more

As young adults often do to reduce expenses, they have roommates. This senseless crime involves three roommates and one ex-roommate. The’d evicted the ex-roommate for not paying his share of the rent.   When one young man (age 24) returned to his place after spending a holiday with his family, he learned someone had robbed them during his absence. His PlayStation, watch, and other items were gone. According to a 22-year-old roommate, the 24-year-old was so angry about the theft of his PlayStation he punched a hole in the wall.   The 24-year-old believed an ex-roommate had stolen the ..read more

He was a military man, stationed in another country when he met a sex worker—she was a local woman fourteen years younger than him. Two years later, they got married. She had a daughter from a previous relationship. The daughter was six years old when they met.   Back in the U.S. and three years into their marriage, they had a daughter. Four years after their daughter’s birth, they divorced—a bitter, lengthy divorce.   The father was moving to another state. The mother agreed to move there as well—then she changed her mind. Nobody knew she had purchased a gun the month before the sc ..read more

Two police officers, partnered for about one week and out of the academy 14 months, were sitting in their patrol car, doing paperwork, and discussing their next destination, when a man dressed in black walked past their vehicle.   When the man was alongside the patrol car, he turned and shot five rounds into the passenger window before running away.   The wounded officers radioed in for help. The driver suffered injuries to her jaw which nearly severed her tongue and shattered one side of her jaw. She was also hit in both forearms, breaking both ulna bones. She had to have her jaw w ..read more

This true crime is about a single, middle-aged mother of two young children. She didn’t know her new boyfriend had a violent past and was on parole. How would she find out that tidbit? I doubt he would include that on his online dating profile.   Not only was he on parole, but he was also on parole for substantial and violent crimes. After dating and living together for one year, she told him it was over, and he needed to move out. He didn’t handle the rejection well.   Everything came to a head when the ex-boyfriend set fire to her two coffee shop businesses and shattered a window ..read more

A woman claimed decades of emotional and physical abuse lead to her having a gun nearby when she and her husband separated to cool down after a heated argument.   According to the woman’s testimony, most of her marriage had been tumultuous. One time, she filed an order of protection against him but never left. She didn’t believe in divorce.   After her husband had a heart attack requiring a triple bypass surgery for which they didn’t have insurance to cover the $249,000 cost, their finances were strained. The hospital had put them on a monthly payment plan. Financial trouble used to ..read more

Imagine your son is on his high school football team. When he misses practice and nobody knows where he is, the first thing any parent would do is call the police to report him missing—he’d never willingly miss football practice.   The parents of the high school teen in this true crime couldn’t find him for 24 hours. The local authorities found his truck on the side of a road. They found the keys in the ignition and blood in the cab. Later, they found the teen wandering near where they’d found his truck—shirtless and barefoot.   He claimed to not recall what had happened to him. Upo ..read more