Barring any last-minute legal action, Texas’s notorious “Tourniquet Killer,” 55-year-old Anthony Allen Shore will become the seventh Texas inmate to die by lethal injection on Wednesday night. Years after the murder of 21-year-old Maria del Carmen Estrada in 1992, was convicted for her strangulation death and sexual assault, following a DNA match of evidence found […]
An Ohio man, who was jailed after being indicted for felony rape, was arrested, hospitalized, then escaped, is now dead by his own hand, authorities in Ohio report. 32-year-old Branden Lee Powell, of Antwerp, Ohio, who was arrested on rape charges on July 8th, escaped from a transport van on Friday while he was being […]
Anchorage teen, 19-year-old Jim Persey, is facing 24 felony charges and two misdemeanor charges, after a year of investigations by the Anchorage Police Department, it was announced by District Attorneys in Anchorage this week. Persey actions were initially looked into by APD investigators over a year ago, and then was first charged with one count of Sexual […]
ANCHORAGE – Governor Bill Walker announced Tuesday that Alaska will receive a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to process over 1,000 sexual assault kits in possession of the Alaska State Troopers (AST). This follows an inventory review conducted by the Governor’s Office and Troopers, which determined there are more than 3,000 […]