Major Crimes and True Crime

Zalmon Gradowski was a Polish Jevw captured and imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His entire family was taken with him, and many did not survive the brutal selection process upon arrival. Zalmon did. He was assigned to work in the gas chambers and later in the crematorium-a sentence of unimaginable horror. Even writing the words "assigned duties" feels wrong. This was not a farm, not a factory, not anything that resembled life as we know it. These were human beings, treated worse than animals, by other human beings. And yet, in the spirit of honoring those who bore the unbearable, I continue- humbled and in awe of Mr. Gradowski and his sacrifice. Zalmon was part of the Sonderkommando: a group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the machinery of death. They were made to herd innocent men, women, and children into gas chambers disguised as showers- without warning them of what was to come. Afterward, they were tasked with removing the bodies and operating the c...

Prisoner, 26, released on bail due to coronavirus concerns is charged with murder after 'stabbing a 63-year-old man to death'  Montgomery County Police Department release surveillance footage allegedly showing suspect Justin Wilson, 26, who is charged with murder after 'stabbing a 63-year-old man Edigio Ienzi to death' in Maryland. Police say that a Maryland inmate who was released from jail over coronavirus concerns stabbed a 63-year-old man to death in late July.  Justin Wilson, 26, of Germantown, Maryland, faces a first degree murder charges for the July 23 death of Edigio Ienzi, 63, also of Germantown. According to court records, a Montgomery County judge had released Wilson from jail in April, due to coronavirus concerns.   Wilson had filed an emergency petition with the court to be released due to the 'immediate threat posed by [the] COVID-19 pandemic,' ABC 7 reported.   Wilson had been in Montgomery County Correctional Facility while wai...

Shocking moment gang killer shoots dead a 21-year-old 'Crips member' on a CitiBike at point-blank range in broad daylight in Brooklyn as NYC gun violence rises 43% from 2020 Surveillance footage captured the moment a young killer assassinated an alleged Crips gang member on a CitiBike in broad daylight on the streets of New York City.   Pierrot Simeon, 21, was shot dead on Wednesday as he pulled up on a bicycle outside a bodega on Clarkson Avenue and East 53rd Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.  The young killer was caught on camera talking on his phone outside the store before suddenly pulling out a gun and shooting his victim at point blank range.  Simeon's Facebook identified him as a member of the notorious Crips gang  - but his distraught family described him as a hardworking young man and do not know who would want to harm him.  The daylight execution marks just the latest horrifying incident to rock the Big Apple in recent m...