Brooklyn Man Convicted of Historic Federal Hate Crime in Transgender Lover’s Murder

Brooklyn Man Convicted of Historic Federal Hate Crime in Transgender Lover’s Murder

First Conviction of Federal Hate Crime for Gender Identity By Melissa Koenig Published Feb. 27, 2024, 3:33 p.m. ET Daqua Lameek Ritter, a 26-year-old Brooklyn native, has become the first person in history to be convicted of a federal hate crime based on gender identity. Ritter was found guilty of gunning down his transgender lover, … Read more

Rising Trend of Foreign Youths Killed in Medellin, Colombia in Search of Drugs and Sex

Rising Trend of Foreign Youths Killed in Medellin, Colombia in Search of Drugs and Sex

Philadelphia ∙ The Wall Street Journal reports that the killing of foreign youths who come to Medellin, Colombia in search of drugs and sex is on the rise. From January to October 2023, 32 foreigners, including 12 US citizens and three British citizens, were killed in this way, according to the figures released by the … Read more

Chelsea Quava’s Remains Found on ‘Highway of Tears’ – Why Has the Suffering Persisted for Half a Century?

Chelsea Quava’s Remains Found on ‘Highway of Tears’ – Why Has the Suffering Persisted for Half a Century?

Chelsea Quava’s remains were found on November 6, 2023. Her disappearance was reported by the Saikuza indigenous community almost a month earlier. Chelsea’s name has now added to the statistics of disappearances and murders associated with the stretch of British Columbia’s Highway 16, known as the “Highway of Tears”. Since 1969, on the “Highway of … Read more

Famous Criminal Cases Involving Stars of Show Business: DSK Affair, Jill Dando Murder, and More

Famous Criminal Cases Involving Stars of Show Business: DSK Affair, Jill Dando Murder, and More

Alain Delon, Coluche, Dominique Strauss-Kahn: these names rhyme with fame… but also crime. It is not uncommon for renowned, and sometimes world-famous, personalities to find themselves involved or targeted by criminal cases in France or elsewhere. Stars of entertainment, political or media personalities… Some have been suspected and investigated. Others, on the contrary, were victims … Read more

Chilean Nationals Accused of Homicide in Venezuela Seek Help from Chilean Authorities

Chilean Nationals Accused of Homicide in Venezuela Seek Help from Chilean Authorities

The family of the brothers Natalia and Guillermo Améstica, of Chilean nationality, who were charged in December by the Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab for the qualified homicide in January 2015 in Maracay of the rapper Tirone González, Canserbero, and the reggae bassist Carlos Molnar, have requested help from the Chilean authorities. Bárbara … Read more

Drug Trafficker from Marseille Found Dead in Comoros, Strangled 7,000 km Away

Drug Trafficker from Marseille Found Dead in Comoros, Strangled 7,000 km Away

A settling of scores 7,000 km away. A Marseillais, known for his links with the world of drug trafficking, had already escaped a homicide attempt in recent years. He was finally assassinated far from Marseille since he was found dead in the Comoros, strangled with a wire on the other side of the worldon this … Read more

Marseille Drug Trafficking: 48 Dead and 118 Injured in the Bloodiest Year

Marseille Drug Trafficking: 48 Dead and 118 Injured in the Bloodiest Year

Drug trafficking has never claimed so many victims in a single year in Marseille, in Bouches-du-Rhône. Shootings increased day and night in the Marseille city, and left no less than 48 dead and 118 injured, according to information from Franceinfo. No district of the city was spared by these news items. “Two years ago, what … Read more

The Pierre Goldman Mystery: The Delaunay Pharmacy Robbery & Legal Journey

The Pierre Goldman Mystery: The Delaunay Pharmacy Robbery & Legal Journey

On December 19, 1969, and square boulevard Richard-Lenoir in Paris, shots ring out: a robbery takes place in the Delaunay pharmacy. The toll is heavy: two pharmacists, Simone Delaunay and Jeanne Aubert, were killed by several gunshots. A peace guard was seriously injured. The case raises questions: several pharmacies suffered hold-ups in the weeks preceding … Read more

The Tragic Case of Arina Yachuk: Did Belarus Cover Up Her Death?

The Tragic Case of Arina Yachuk: Did Belarus Cover Up Her Death?

The girl, who was searched for more than a year and a half by the whole of Ukraine, has been found dead. On March 3, 2022, fifteen-year-old Arina Yachuk tried to flee the horrors of war caused by Russia with her family, but she was injured by the Russian occupiers on the Zhytomyr highway. Later … Read more

Shooting in London leaves at least one dead

Shooting in London leaves at least one dead

At least one 42-year-old woman has died and two other people – a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old teenager – have been injured during a shooting in the Hackney district, in the city of London, the capital of the United Kingdom. The London Metropolitan Police announced this Tuesday night that it is carrying out a … Read more