Two 12-year-old girls, pretending to play hide-and-seek, lured their friend into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and stabbed her 19 times in a plot to appease a fictional internet character known as Slender Man.…
The air of normalcy that blanketed the quiet suburban neighborhood in Walka, Wisconsin, was shattered on February 28, 2025, when police responded to a welfare check and uncovered a scene that one investigator described…
The same night President George W. Bush finalized the military ultimatum that would send American forces into Iraq, a different order was carried out at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. At…
The execution chamber fell silent at 6:13 p. m. as the lethal drugs completed their work on Donald David Dilbeck, ending a 33-year journey through Florida’s death row system. The 59-year-old inmate, convicted of…
The countdown began at dawn on July 17, 2018, inside the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, where death row inmate Christopher Young, 34, awoke for the final time. He had spent 4,148 days in…
Oklahoma executed Michael Dwayne Smith on Thursday, April 4, 2024, ending the life of a man who confessed to three murders in a violent rampage fueled by gang retaliation. He was pronounced dead at…