Recently it was announced that the conviction of Msgr. William J. Lynn for endangering the welfare of a child has been vacated by a Pennsylvania appeals court. Lynn, who was convicted in 2012, was serving a three-to-six year prison sentence. According to a news article at NCR Online, Lynn was…
In April of 2014, Dale Lee Varner of Davenport, IA was found guilty of vehicular homicide in an incident that occurred in September of 2012. At his May 2014 sentencing, Varner was given a 10-year sentence which was later suspended by a Scott County District Judge who instead gave Varner…
On April 16, 2013 letters which included ricin were delivered to President Obama, Sadie Holland, a Mississippi judge, and Senator Roger Wicker of MS. Shortly thereafter, 41-year-old James Everett Dutschke was arrested by federal authorities on charges he manufactured ricin and sent the potentially deadly chemical through the mail in…
Last year, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella was found guilty of violating a man’s civil rights during a traffic stop. The incident occurred when Rodella was off-duty; the traffic stop gone bad cost Rodella his job, and left him facing a ten year sentence. Facade of the United States…
On February 2 of this year, 40-year-old Brian Fitch Sr. was found guilty of the murder of Scott Patrick, a Mendota Heights police officer; he was also convicted of the attempted murder of three other officers. Fitch allegedly shot Patrick during a traffic stop in West St. Paul in July…
In 1990, Johnny Hincapie, a Colombian immigrant, was one of seven men convicted in the stabbing death of 22-year-old Brian Watkins, a Utah man who was in New York with his parents for the U.S. Open tennis tournament when he was killed in a subway station. Now, Hincapie has been…
In 2006, Dallin D. Fort who is now 39 years old was found guilty of raping a relative who was 9 years old at the time the alleged rape occurred in 2003. Now, the Washington Court of Appeal’s Third Division has overturned Fort’s conviction and granted him a new trial.…
In 1998, Julie Jensen was found dead in the Pleasant Prairie home she shared with her husband, Mark Jensen, and their two children. Initially the death was thought to be a suicide, however in 2007 Mark Jensen was put on trial for first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly poisoning his wife…
In November of 1999, Eric Brown of Pontotoc pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman he had been in a relationship with. The woman was pregnant at the time, and Brown was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for the death and manslaughter of Shorelonda Moore and…
In April of this year, 25-year-old Aaron Hernandez, former tight end for the New England Patriots, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the June 2013 shooting of Odin Lloyd in a deserted industrial park. Lloyd was allegedly dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée, according to a news article at…