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Kids Stop Killer With Baseball Bats

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 21st 2009 5:00PM

A would-be killer armed with a handgun is no match for a pair of eight-year-olds with baseball bats. Listen to this one: After his girlfriend broke up with him, Charles Arby Bradley of Gainesville, FL, tried to reconcile, but she wasn't having any ...
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How NOT to pay for breast implants - Hire a hit man to kill your mom

by Susan Wagner, Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:00PM

(Click the photo to see the 8 Dumbest Criminals of All Time) This is so weird I'm not even sure where to start: CNN is reporting that a Colorado teen is in police custody after hiring two men to kill his mother. The motive? He wanted money to pay ...
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Boy takes out mom's attacker

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 3rd 2008 11:29AM

We all know that, as parents, we would do just about anything to protect our children. What we probably don't think about very often is that the opposite is also true -- our children would do just about anything to protect us. For one ...
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Wife who killed minister husband wants her kids back

by Sandy Maple, Posted Sep 12th 2007 5:05PM

Perhaps you remember Mary Winkler, the Tennessee minister's wife who shot and killed her husband, Rev. Michael Winkler, in 2006. She was charged with first-degree murder and went to trial, where she claimed she had suffered years of mental and sexual ...
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Madeleine's parents home in Britain

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Sep 9th 2007 4:00PM

I've been following the case of Madeleine with eyes half-closed. It is every parent's darkest fear, losing a child, and I cannot imagine that there is anything worse than knowing that you may have prevented the disappearance of your child, had only ...
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Video game features OJ Simspon and a knife

by Heather Craven, Posted Jul 23rd 2007 2:01PM

Finding a happy medium is often hard to do with a teen ager in the house. What I deem appropriate as a mother sometimes brings an eye roll form my oldest son. For the most part we walk a comfortable path: he knows what pushes my buttons and what will ...
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Teen murderer appeals sentence because jail is too hard

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 8th 2006 1:34PM

Ooh, poor baby! Gee, I'll bet if Warren Messner had known how totally not-fun jail is, he wouldn't have jumped on the chest of Michael Roberts, crushing his ribcage. He might have found something else to do to alleviate his boredom. He might have, at ...
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Doctor accuses greiving mother of killing her child

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Nov 13th 2006 7:00PM

David Southall, a British pediatrician, is in disciplinary hearings after accusing a mother of drugging and murdering her ten year-old son. Southall apparently made the accusation during an interview with the mother, as part of preparing a report for ...
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Followup: Murdered neighbor never touched 2-year-old

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 21st 2006 11:59AM

Remember the case of Jonathon Edington the Connecticut lawyer who killed his neighbor Barry James after his wife told him that their daughter said something that made it seem like the neighbor had molested her? Yeah, well, it turns out that the ...
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Boy Scout assists police in arresting suspected murderer

by Karen Walrond, Posted Jan 10th 2006 8:05AM

From our Tipline:  The San Francisco Gate has a report about a teenager who witnessed the fatal shooting of a Palo Alto police officer.  The young teenager was a police Explorer -- a special division of the Boy Scouts of America -- and ...
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