Major Crimes and True Crime

He shows no sign of remorse or guilt, despite having raped and murdered Miss Everard just six hours earlier. Buying a hot chocolate and Bakewell tart at a Costa Coffee ¿ wearing the very same clothes as he had the night before. Just over an hour later, he would dispose of Miss Everard's phone in a flood relief channel in Sandwich ¿ but a fragment was later found in his car On March 5, Couzens bought a can of petrol (pictured) and another McDonald's meal before heading back to Hoad's Wood, where he had purchased a plot of land ¿ described as 'perfect for day trips' ¿ in 2019, and where he had left his murdered victim's body more than 24 hours ago At 12.45pm on March 5, a local sees a large fire by a fridge. This was used by Couzens to burn Miss Everard's clothing and body just yards from his own plot of land. He brought his wife and children to the woodland two days later Couzens is seen strolling into B...

Video: Moment convicted murderer is caught brazenly pickpocketing £4,000 of funeral money  Moment convicted murderer is caught on CCTV brazenly pickpocketing thousands from man. Footage shows the man attempting to steal money from the back pocket of the man in front of him, who turns around and shoves the thief away. Share this video: Video: Moment convicted murderer is caught on CCTV brazenly pickpocketing man CCTV footage shows the moment a convicted murderer recently released from prison was caught stealing thousands of pounds from a man's back pocket. Paul Paginton, 50, targeted Anthony Lilwall as he withdrew £4,000 to help his ex-wife cover the costs of her father's funeral. Paginton watched as Mr. Lilwall was handed the money in three bags by the bank teller. He then followed Mr. Lilwall from the bank to a pub in Newport town centre, where he stole £3,540 from his back pocket.  Paginton, of Ilchester Road, Llanrumney, was identified by CCTV and later pleaded...

Moment mobility scooter murder suspect was caught on CCTV four days before brutal stabbing of beloved 87-year-old busker: Man, 44, bought birthday card and chocolates in shop 300 yards from home where he was arrested  This is the man arrested on suspicion of brutally stabbing beloved busker Thomas O'Halloran to death captured on CCTV in a shop just days before the suspected murder - after neighbours revealed armed police smashed in the door of his west London home during a tense 30-minute standoff today. CCTV shared exclusively with MailOnline shows the 44-year-old buying a birthday card and a box of chocolates while wearing a blue Covid face mask in a convenience store on Saturday afternoon - four days before the pensioner, 87, was killed in a daylight attack. Mr O'Halloran was raising money for victims of Putin's savage invasion of Ukraine - which has led to alleged war crimes including the murder of captured soldiers, torture, a massive refugee crisis and f...

In 1951, a young Polish immigrant actor named Curt Lowens landed his first role on Broadway in the play Stalag 17. He portrayed a German soldier in the story of American prisoners of war confined in a German camp. The remarkable irony was that Curt Lowens-born Curt Lowenstein-was himself a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Undoubtedly, his lived experience colored the role he played. Curt Lowenstein was born in East Prussia, now part of Poland. His family lived a relatively comfortable life until 1933, when the rise of antisemitism and the Nazis changed everything. Believing they would be safer in a larger Jewish community, the Lowensteins moved to Berlin. At first, Curt's father, a lawyer, managed to find work, but the situation quickly deteriorated. The terror of Kristallnacht ended any hope of normalcy as Jewish businesses were destroyed and violence escalated. Like many others, the family tried to emigrate, but faced endless bureaucratic obstacles. Curt's brother eventu...

Ester Wajcblum, Ella Gärtner, Regina Safirsztain and Róza Robota I have written before about the Auschwitz Sonderkommando uprising. Among those killed was Zalmon Gradowski, whose story is particularly heartbreaking. The Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers-driving people in, stripping the bodies of clothing and valuables, shaving their hair, and feeding them into the crematoria. This was done on an industrial scale, with Auschwitz burning up to 8,000 people a day. Words scarcely capture the horror. This post is about the uprising itself, and the extraordinary courage of four Jewish women prisoners: Ester Wajcblum, Ella Gärtner, Regina Safirsztain, and Róza Robota. The Auschwitz killing machine functioned with cold efficiency. Most prisoners were murdered upon arrival, their belongings-including even gold teeth- seized for sorting. The four women had each arrived with their families, all of whom perished in the selection process. They alon...

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...

Moment man pulls out a knife and stabs a father to death all caught on doorbell camera A doorbell camera captured the horrific moment a man pulled out a knife and stabbed a father to death. Kane Kotwica, 39, fatally stabbed his 53-year-old neighbour Matthew Cainey and wounded two others in a block of flats on May 28 this year.  The chilling footage from a nearby flat showed the moments leading up to the murder.  It shows Kotwica taking a knife out of his hoodie pocket and stabbing Mr Cainey in his chest as he stood in the hallway of his flat in Gloucester. Mr Cainey's 'heartbroken' daughter said she had moved to the area just nine days before he was killed to be closer to him. She had planned to see him the next day and was looking forward to 'spending more time with him'.  Kotwica, of Gloucestershire, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court last week for murder. He was also found guilty of wounding two other men with intent. Kotwica was sen...

Lindsay Ann Hawker was a 22-year-old British teacher who was k-illed in Japan in early 2007 by a man he met on the train, Tatsuya Ichihashi. On the day of the heinous crime, March 24, 2007, Hawker and Ichihashi had agreed to meet in a cafe for a brief English lesson. She had no idea he just wanted to get in her pants. After the brief meeting, he coerced her to follow him to his apartment. Image:  The victim, Ichihashi before and after facial reconstruction. Days later, Hawker's unclad body was found buried on the apartment's balcony; her body had been sprayed with a substance used to compact and decompose waste. Ichihashi had stra-ngled her as he ra-ped her. Tatsuya Ichihashi was on the run and tried everything to cover his tracks. He paid for facial reconstruction surgery to drastically change his looks. In November 2009, he was arrested in Osaka while waiting to board a ferry to Okinawa. A passenger had contacted port officials after recognizing I...