Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms recently announced a Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a series of killings committed in Atlanta during in the 1970s and 80s. Lance Bottoms wrote on Twitter that Atlanta investigators are going to Salt Lake City to provide a private lab with DNA evidence from missing and murder children […]
Video of a police officer throwing a plastic bag into a vehicle during a traffic stop went viral on social media. The Village of Caledonia Police Department in Wisconsin has released body camera footage of the incident. The police department released footage of a July 21 stop on July 24 after some social media users […]
Lawyers for Rodney Reed, a Black man accused of killing a white woman, introduced new forensic evidence during an evidentiary hearing in Texas this week that could prove his innocence. Reed was convicted and sentenced to death row in 1998 for the abduction, rape and killing of Stacey Stites in 1996. The 19-year-old was killed […]
McKinley Bates III was charged with several drug and weapons felonies and faced 10 years in prison. He spent three months behind bars awaiting trial. However, officials from the Concordia Parish District Attorney reviewed footage of the alleged misconduct, prosecutors later dropped charges Bates. In January 2020, Bates filed a federal lawsuit against Lane Normand, […]
Four years after the execution of Ledell Lee, who was convicted of murder, DNA testing has revealed that genetic material on the murder weapon belongs to another man. Lawyers affiliated with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union revealed the new genetic profile, which has now been uploaded to a national criminal database in an […]
Ex-Dallas police officer Bryan Riser has been released after authorities arrested him on March 4th according to ABC 8. Riser was arrested on two counts of capital murder after a man told investigators that he kidnapped and killed two people in 2017. According to a statement from the police department, the 13-year veteran of the force was […]
A former NYPD police officer had a dying wish to have his letter, in which he admits he’d been a part of covering up the assassination of Malcolm X, read following his death, Reuters reported. In the letter, the now-deceased ex-undercover NYPD officer Raymond Wood implicates his department and the FBI in ensuring the successful […]