After Ronnie Blair survived an attack that took the lives of his mother and sister, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Detective Mike Blair and his wife Danyel adopted him.
Items coined as "murderabilia" range from artwork to fingernail clippings of serial murderers. Victim advocate Andy Kahan wants to stop criminals from profiting off their crimes.
Manjusha Kulkarni, Cynthia Choi, and Dr. Russell Jeung decided to launch the reporting center Stop AAPI Hate last March. It received nearly 3,800 hate incident reports in under a year.
Christopher Cox said that he thought that Lucas Salmon and his stepbrother were trying to steal his backpack, according to police — so he allegedly shot both teens multiple times.
“There’s so much more to their life that they lived previously than that moment when they were killed,” Roosevelt University journalism professor John W. Fountain, whose students embarked on an expansive project to restore the humanity of dozens of victims, said.
A new campaign spearheaded by Manny Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, puts a sad and thought-provoking twist on the traditional postcard.
The term “walking the beat” often refers to police officers getting to know the neighborhood they patrol and the people who live there. Two New Jersey officers’ jobs have led them to a local theater.
Ali Kemp was brutally beaten and strangled at a Kansas neighborhood pool. It took the help of her former boyfriend and her father, Roger, to bring her slippery killer to justice.
Jessie Blodgett was a performer and budding activist when Daniel Bartelt raped and murdered her. Her dad Buck has forgiven her killer and turned his pain into activism.
Cody Byrd is being hailed as a hero by local authorities after he confronted a man suspected of trying to kidnap a young girl in a Greensboro, North Carolina Biscuitville, which rewarded the student with free breakfast for a year.
Karen Roche told police she had been waiting 32 years for them to knock on her door after they'd linked her to mystery infant David Paul, who died of exposure in 1988.
“Ashley’s motherly instinct allowed her to protect her young son from the hail of gunfire, which in turn caused her to lose her life,” Ashley Berry’s cousin said. “She was a beloved mother of three and will forever be her children’s hero.”
Investigators discovered five-month pregnant Charli Scott’s maternity skirt near the site of her last cellphone ping. It had been stabbed 20 times where her pregnancy bump would have been.
Horrific hate crimes like the murders of James Byrd Jr., Matthew Shepard, Blaze Bernstein and Heather Heyer sow terror and outrage — but some of them also sparked change.