Judith Yates is an Award-winning true crime author and criminologist. She has been employed in law enforcement for over 35 years. She discusses her books and why she thinks former prison seamstress Joyce Mitchell helped two convicts escape a NY state prison last June causing an international manhunt.
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It is being reported on November 21, 2015 that the woman responsible for driving into a parade in Oklahoma last month killing four people, was not under the influence of alcohol. It is believed that she deliberately drove her car into the sea of spectators at the homecoming parade.
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It is being reported on November 2, 2015 that Heather Mack’s lawyer will not be receiving the $200,000 requested from Mack’s trust fund.
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It is being reported on October 14, 2015 that the Bali suitcase killer Heather Mack’s uncle went to court to prevent Mack from receiving her trust fund money. “William Wiese, the uncle of Heather Mack, plans to file a petition in an Illinois court to ensure his niece and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, do not get a penny from his sister’s $1.56 million trust fund.”
It is being reported on October 20, 2015 that Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be released from prison next Tuesday. He will begin house arrest on October 20, 2015. A South African parole board decided to release Pistorius one year into his five year sentence for murdering Reeva Steenkamp.
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A new documentary released this year A Murder in the Park, concerns the unjust exoneration of murderer, Anthony Porter. This film reveals the underbelly of the Innocence movement. This documentary covers the unsavory actions of a Chicago Innocence group headed by a Northwestern university professor, David Protess, and how they caused a convicted murderer to walk free while coercing another man take the fall and go to prison.
Anthony Porter was on death row for shooting two people to death in 1982. Fifteen years later, Protess’s Innocence project, with the help of private investigator, Paul Ciolino, coerced a false confession from an innocent man and influenced the star witness to recant his testimony which resulted in the release of Porter and an innocent man, Alstroy Simon, taking the blame. Because of this case, the death penalty was abolished in Illinois.
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Make no mistake about it, Amanda Knox, the twice convicted murderess is gloating in her galoshes. After the Italian Supreme court released it’s controversial reasoning report for her acquittal, she is now launching her second offensive in mainstream media -The Mendacity tour.
First stop, Loyola University Law School in Chicago. They recently tweeted that the “world’s most famous exoneree” will be a guest speaker in December.
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Lisa Wilson and Nick Van der Leek have just released their third ebook about the Murder of Meredith Kercher and it brings this complicated case even more into focus. UNDER SUSPICION grants the reader a ‘fly on the wall’ perspective of what really happened shortly after Meredith Kercher’s lifeless body was discovered in Perugia, Italy. UNDER SUSPICION is a continuation of two previous ebooks on the case: DECEIT, and DARK MATTER. No other book series has come this close to revealing the truth about this crime.
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