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Billy Wayne Sinclair was only 21 when he heard the Louisiana judge pronounce these words: "I hereby sentence you to death in the electric chair." It was the culmination of a botched holdup committed the year before in which Billy had accidentally shot and killed a man. Billy spent the next 40 years in Angola Prison - one of the country’s worst - six of those years on death row. When in 1972 the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as arbitrary and capricious, Billy was re-sentenced to life without parole.

Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized banks and ran smuggling and prostitution rings all over Texas.

'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and...

In late June 2018, five people were murdered by an active shooter walking through their offices at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. Prosecutors say he blocked the exit so the victims couldn’t escape. The defendant, Jarrod Ramos, pleaded guilty to the murders but his lawyers now argue he’s not “criminally responsible” — Maryland’s version of the Insanity Defense. Prosecutors contend that his attack was planned in a “calculating and methodical” manner because the paper wrote unfavorable articles about him. Former TV reporter and lawyer Chris Gordon covered ...

Foco Rojo: El diario digital Reporte Indigo presenta investigaciones periodísticas que ponen en foco diversas problemáticas que aquejan a México, desentraña la realidad social y el lado oculto de sus protagonistas en crudos relatos de la vida real. Con el trabajo periodístico de Ernesto Santillán, Joshua Hernández y Ángela Chávez. Producción de Cesar Carrera. Para más información: https://bit.ly/4ewV7Ys

Welcome to the Murder Through the Grapevine Podcast. Join Jessica and Nick as a pair, a wine with a true crime. Our host will recommend a wine as you sample and review the tasting notes with them before deep diving into this Episode's true crime.

In Norvegia, fra gli anni ‘80 e ‘90, un gruppo di ragazzi si riunisce negli umidi sotterranei dell’Helvete, un negozio di dischi di Oslo. Sono teenager, musicisti talentuosi e giovanissimi estremisti. Danno vita a un nuovo genere musicale, lo chiamano “true norwegian black metal”. Dicono di essere satanisti, di essere nazisti, di essere malvagi, di voler combattere la cristianità. Qualcuno di loro fa diventare quelle parole realtà. “Helvete/Inferno – Una storia di musica, fiamme e sangue” è un podcast del giornalista di Radio Capital Antonio Cristiano che in 6 puntate ...