Singapore's Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Strait Times. It's believed to be the second time that a death sentence has been handed down this year over the video service, which has seen a dramatic increase in use since the global coronavirus pandemic began earlier this year.
Li Jingzhi quit her job to search China for her son, Mao Yin, who went missing in 1988.
Habbo Hotel is an online community for teens to make friends and buy virtual goods. It also has been a haven for widespread virtual crime.
A Florida man took an ill-advised leap into the Bass Pro Shop fish aquarium in Fort Myers and now he's wanted by police for trespassing and criminal mischief.
Stéphane Bourgoin, whose books about murderers have sold millions, says he invented much of his experience, including training with FBI.
There's a difference between crimes that are morally wrong and crimes that are only crimes because there's a law against them.
After he was arrested a lot of weird moments in my childhood made sense.
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Ahmaud Arbery would've been 26 today, and I've been thinking about how sometimes the traits we admire most in our kids are the same traits used to mark them for death.
Michael Terpin, an American cryptocurrency investor, is suing a New York teenager who is now 18 and a senior in high school.
Both men were taken into custody and face charges of aggravated assault and murder, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced.
A Dominos delivery man got his vehicle stolen by a fast-talking criminal who got pulled over immediately for a lane violation and then miraculously was let go. Fortunately, the car was recovered an hour later.
Richard McGuire banned from Walt Disney World property,
When Peter Pan meets Grand Theft Auto.
With storefronts closed, supply chains in disarray and the global economy in peril, money laundering schemes are hobbled and cash is piling up in Los Angeles, the city's top drug enforcement official said.
How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.
The mysterious behavior of the young dealer crosses three continents, cost tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars and left some of the world's most savvy collectors scratching their heads and very badly out of pocket.
Murph the Surf's savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?
Documents reveal Damien Patton, CEO of surveillance firm Banjo, admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth,
Cayce French, who is serving life in prison at the Oregon State Correctional Institution, describes how getting clean and participating in rehabilitation programs has transformed his identity.
On America's interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper.
What really happened at St. Mary's in Winchester?
Dateline's first narrative true crime podcast is a jawdropping story of greed and a deeply fallible justice system.
I worked at PetCo for a whole year when I was 17 and one day my shift fatefully overlapped with James Garretson. Yes, he let me pet a lion. Yes, I was stoned the whole time.
The collection includes multiple NASCAR race cars, a Ford GT supercar previously owned by Wayne Gretzky and dozens of highly sought-after classics.
A federal appeals court says the Crime Victims' Rights Act does not apply to Epstein's victims, who sued over the pedophile financier's controversial 2008 plea deal.
A mad-as-a-hatter Manhattan man was arrested for threatening to blow up Central Park's Alice in Wonderland statue with a pipe bomb.
Virginia is the 27th state to decriminalize or legalize marijuana.
It was one of their biggest Canadian scoops. They didn't know they were being conned.
What do the criminals do with The "Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring," and how could they get caught?
Nearly 200 prisoners were involved in a conflict that broke out in Washington state's Monroe Correctional Complex Wednesday night, the Washington State Patrol said.
A tenured professor at the venerable Seven Sisters college was assaulted last Christmas. The most shocking part? The accused is her colleague.
The premise is exactly what it sounds like: Home renovators fix up houses where people were killed.
There's finally an explanation to the seemingly incomprehensible viral video.
Through a life of crime that spanned five decades, Linda Calvey's husbands and lovers kept turning up dead. Now she's out of prison, turning 72 today, and determined to clear her name.
How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in one of America's richest communities?
Deliberately coughing on food in a grocery store could very well result in being charged with an act of terrorism.
Zoom, the videoconferencing app, has become a target for harassment and abuse coordinated in private off-platform chats.
It is up to us to raise money, space, and resources for survivors of domestic violence.
Bob Dylan's epic new song isn't just about the assassination of JFK. It's about how an event takes on meaning beyond itself, and the role of spirit in the national life.
"Tweaker tries to siphon gas while smoking, accidentally gives my Camry a Viking funeral," Tom McLennan laments.
Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as "Zoombombing," in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography. It's a phenomenon so alarming that the FBI has issued a warning about using Zoom.
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister spoke to us about the Netflix documentary series "Tiger King," Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Don Lewis and the open murder case.
Scammers are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic by sending emails claiming to be from the WHO. How are they doing this?
How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss helped legalize pot, took kickbacks and ended up in prison.
On Monday, a Dutch museum announced that a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was missing after thieves broke into the building in an early-morning raid. Lentetuin, painted by Van Gogh in the spring of 1884, was on loan to the Singer Laren museum, which closed its doors earlier this month due to the risks of COVID-19.
We are on the verge of catastrophe — for incarcerated persons, staff, and their families, obviously, but also for the general public.
The US government is offering a $15 million award for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
Brenton Tarrant had previously denied culpability; his altered plea caught many victims' families by surprise.
Some Londoners aren't taking the lockdown order as seriously as others.
PG&E pleads guilty to criminal charges in the deadly 2018 fire and will pay about $3.5m in fines.
Hackers targeted an adult film star. A white hat hacker decided to help.
Patchwork social service departments are scrambling to address the fallout of coronavirus restrictions, and social workers say vast numbers of at-risk, elderly, sick and disabled Americans will be imperiled. "We are going to see some deaths."
Orange County deputies have arrested a man for allegedly stealing 66 rolls of toilet paper from an Orlando hotel.
This person, who wishes to remain anonymous, is serving a 15-year sentence at a federal penitentiary in a southern US state. The facility in which he is housed operates beyond capacity and has scarce medical care.
In 1978, an eighth grader from a prominent Austin family killed his teacher. More than four decades later, his classmates are still haunted by what happened that terrible day and after.
Body cam footage obtained by The Intercept apparently caught a police officer in Staten Island planting drug paraphernalia inside a car during a traffic stop.
A coronavirus outbreak in jails or prisons could make the pandemic worse everywhere else.
For a few years, Inigo Philbrick and I were inseparable. And then it turned out he was running a con.
