The following post appears courtesy of Mary Lou Leary, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Last week the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) welcomed Google into the AMBER alert network. This innovative and exciting new partnership will provide real-time AMBER Alert… Read more »
The following post appears courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, Mary Lou Leary Last week, I was privileged to speak at the Clery Center for Security on Campus’s 25th anniversary gathering. Founded by Connie Clery – who was moved to action by the brutal rape and murder of her… Read more »
“Honor killings” are defined as crimes where “members of a family kill a relative or relatives because of behavior that they believe shames the family”. When people think of an honor killing, they imagine it as something that only happened far away and long ago. More: Honor Killing or First Degree Murder?
Former Chicago police officer Drew Peterson was recently convicted of first degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in her dry bathtub. The medical examiner declared the death accidental. Originally posted here: Drew Peterson trial and prosecutorial misconduct
On July 17, a civil jury in Alameda County, California ordered Hans Reiser to pay his children a total of $60 million in compensatory and punitive damages associated with their mother’s murder. Continued here: Jury Orders Father to Pay His Children $60 Million for Murdering their Mother
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