It’s a scary time for parents when their teenagers drive. Boys often want to drive too fast. Speed isn’t as alluring to girls but in this case it’s impossible to know why the young woman (17 at the time) drove head-on into a brick wall at 100mph.   Also, in her car at the time of the crash was her 20-year-old boyfriend and his 19-year-old friend. They didn’t survive the crash. According to family members of the deceased, the driver wanted to kill her boyfriend. On the side of the driver, they said it was a terrible accident.   The prosecution presented evidence that showed the dri ..read more

Imagine you and your boyfriend are driving back to your apartment after spending time in a big city. Your drive is about twenty minutes to a smaller community. Out of nowhere, a guy cuts you off and you honk. You don’t know what’s going on with the driver, but your honk was the final straw.   Now, let's take you out of the driver's seat and focus on the young woman (age unknown) and her 22-year-old boyfriend. She was driving. When the pickup truck cut in front of her, she honked. [I’d like to point out that honking at someone after they’ve done something you don’t like IS you voicing y ..read more

While working in his automotive shop behind his home, someone surprised and shot the 61-year-old man. The victim called 911 and told the dispatcher a man had shot him to hell. While on the call, the dispatcher heard what she thought was gunfire. He gave her his address, described the man who’d shot him and said he didn’t know the guy other than he’d been with his wife. The victim urged the dispatcher to have the response hurry. He was bleeding profusely. Then he stopped responding and only moaned.   When the first responding officer drove into the neighborhood, he testified he heard gun ..read more

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