The estranged wife of a New York City police officer struggled to keep her composure Monday as she testified about discovering shocking emails and other evidence on his computer showing he had discussed killing her and abducting, torturing and eating other women.
Potential jurors seemed surprised at a New York City police officer’s cannibalism trial Friday when a judge began by describing some sexually violent and deviant conduct they must witness before deciding whether the officer’s plans to kill and eat women were fact or fiction.
A man was arrested Friday on charges that he sought to pay $5,000 to a New York City police officer — later charged in a cannibalism case — to kidnap a Manhattan woman that he intended to rape and kill.
NEW YORK — A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia. Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton known as “Ty” [...]
A lifeguard widely praised as a hero after Superstorm Sandy for rescuing neighbors endangered by rolling floodwaters and a fire that destroyed several homes in a small community where grief has been a frequent visitor has died in a surfing accident in Puerto Rico.
A lawyer for a man who police say confessed to choking to death a 6-year old boy in a landmark 1979 missing-child case said Friday his client is mentally ill and has a history of hallucinations.
