True Crime & Weirdness
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An Oxford Biologist Warns AI Could Slowly Domesticate Humans and Put Them on Treadmills to Power It
Oxford evolutionary biologist Tim Coulson has raised a possibility: AI could make people so dependent on it that it could eventually compel them to…
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Former West Point Cadet Pleads Guilty, Admits He Got Xanax to Secretly Sedate His Pregnant Girlfriend
Caleb T. Suh, a former West Point cadet, admitted in federal court that he obtained Xanax to sedate his pregnant girlfriend without her knowledge…
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She Waited 40 Years to See Her Mother’s Killer Executed. Then Tennessee’s Failed Christa Pike Execution Left Her Feeling Guilty
Melissa Jenkins felt relief when Tennessee executed her mother’s killer in August. After Christa Pike survived an execution attempt on Sept. 30, Jenkins said…
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Arizona Police Say a Man Arranged the Attack on His Own Fiancée Online and Asked to Watch on FaceTime
Bella Torres was home in Buckeye, Arizona, with her 2 children on October 16 when a man entered and attacked her. Police say her…
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Danny Masterson Loses His Appeal, and His 30-Years-To-Life Rape Sentence Stands
Danny Masterson lost his appeal of his 2023 rape conviction, leaving his 30-years-to-life sentence in place. An 89-page, unanimous ruling rejected Danny Masterson’s bid…
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Christa Pike Describes Waking Up in a Hospital After Tennessee’s Failed Execution
One month after Tennessee tried and failed to execute her, Christa Pike says she has not had a single pain-free moment since she woke…
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DNA Evidence Ties Ted Bundy to the 1974 Killing of 17-Year-Old Melissa Ann Smith in Utah
Exactly 52 years after a hunter found 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith’s body in Utah, authorities announced that DNA evidence had allowed them to close…
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Fastball’s Hit ‘the Way’ Was Inspired by an Elderly Texas Couple Who Vanished in 1997
Fastball’s “The Way” grew out of a missing-persons story: an elderly Texas couple set out for a festival 15 miles from home and ended…
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A Man Asked Houdini If He Could Take a Punch. Nine Days Later, on Halloween, He Was Dead
Harry Houdini was reclining on a couch in his Montreal dressing room when a man struck him repeatedly in the abdomen on October 22,…
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She Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel on Her 63rd Birthday, After Testing It on a Cat
Annie Edson Taylor spent her 63rd birthday inside an oak barrel going over Niagara Falls. On October 24, 1901, the American schoolteacher became the…
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Why Max Factor Heir Andrew Luster Walked Free After 20 Years of a 124-Year Sentence
Andrew Luster, the Max Factor cosmetics heir sentenced to 124 years for drugging and raping unconscious women, walked out of a California state prison…
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Doris Bither’s Son Told Film Director Nick Simon That the Ghost Following Her Ended Up Killing Her
Nick Simon’s next movie is What Happened to Doris? The film, written by screenwriter Thomas Fenton, is a retelling of the true-life haunting of…
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Nick Reiner’s Murder Case Is Pushed to January as a Judge Weighs Releasing the Sealed Grand Jury Evidence
Nick Reiner, 33, reportedly rocked in his chair at a Los Angeles murder hearing Wednesday as Judge Sam Ohta gave his defense more time…
