True Crime

True-crime author charged with helping convicted murderer in extortion scheme

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LINCOLN, NE – Samantha Al-Rekabi, a celebrated true-crime writer, is now the subject of a real-life crime story. Al-Rekabi has been charged with felony theft by extortion, accused of assisting a death row inmate in Nebraska, Aubrey Trail, in a scheme to extort $25,000 from a prison nurse. Trail, a 56-year-old convicted murderer, was sentenced to death for the brutal killing and dismemberment of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe in 2017. The pair had connected via the …

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Man Admits To Murder On Podcast And Says ‘I sleep with dead bodies’

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Michelle Saum Schofield, 18, had been stabbed 26 times and was found in a drainage canal three days after her shift at a burger drive-in. Leo Schofield was arrested, convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison in 1989 despite unwavering denials and no physical evidence linking him to the scene. Gilbert King learned about Leo Schofield’s case from a Florida judge and started investigating the “clear miscarriage of justice” in which Schofield …

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Murder Live Streamed on Instagram

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A Woman’s Fatal Stabbing Was Streamed on Instagram, Police Say – The New York Times The victim was tied to the car’s steering wheel with jumper cables, and the attack went on for over 15 minutes.  In a shocking, live-streamed video, drug user Felon Earl Lee Johnson Jr. (35) killed a woman he was on a full days-long drug binge before committing this heinous act. Not so surprising, police said the killer had been arrested …

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School Official “Assaulted” Mistress, Court Documents Show

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(InformingNews.com) – Plenty of controversy surrounds Round Rock Independent School District Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez. The situation reads like a soap opera with accusations from a pregnant mistress and a coverup by the school board president. Many are left wondering, should more have been done? The Accusations An unnamed former mistress of Azaiez, who says she was in a relationship with him from September 2018 to December 2020, accused him of domestic violence in a request …

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