murder

Technology is all-pervasive.

Wherever you look, someone has their nose in their smartphone, searching for something to love, someone to love, or someone to love them. This seems to be the case even in prison.

Fox 23 of Oklahoma recently happened upon the progressive use of technology enjoyed by Justin Walker. Walker is a convicted murderer. And, for some time, he enjoyed the medium-security luxury of Granite City prison.

However, the Granite City facility appears to be not as secure as one might expect, as Walker was able to upload images of the entertainment available on the inside to his … Read more

If we want to find out what the world thinks about us, we google. There, we find every reference to our delicate beings. Well, every reference that we can't find on Facebook.

Please imagine, then, the mental entertainment that played itself out behind Zachary Garcia's forehead, when he googled himself and happened to notice that he was being accused of murder.

No, he was not being accused by some crazy former lover or fellow University of Florida student attempting to enter the Prankdom Hall of Fame.

It was the Polk County Sheriff's Office, which reportedly mistakenly released … Read more

Whenever Google sends its Street View cameras to a new country, there is always more revealed than was anticipated.

And so is the case with the launch of Google Street View in Brazil.

Just a day after the service launched, up popped a couple of corpses. One, on the Avenida Presidente Vargas in Rio, the other in Belo Horizonte.

The images, which first reportedly surfaced on Gizmodo Brazil are disturbing because of their apparent normality. They are not in deserted areas, but in places where people and cars can be seen, places where city life just goes on.

Google moved … Read more

The former medical student accused of being the "Craigslist killer" has been found dead in his Boston jail cell, according to an Associated Press report.

Philip H. Markoff, 24, was found unresponsive Sunday morning and pronounced dead, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said in an e-mailed statement to the AP.

"Markoff was alone in his cell, and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life," the statement said.

Markoff, a former student at Boston University, was arrested in April 2009 and charged with the slaying of a woman he met … Read more

This might incite an emotion or two. So I'll keep it simple. Or at least try.

The state of Utah believes it is an appropriate punishment for a convicted murderer to be executed. And Mark Shurtleff, Utah's attorney general, believes it is appropriate to announce the murderer's execution on Twitter.

At Twitter.com/MarkShurtleff, he offered his more than 7,000 followers tweets as to the progress of the state's most recent execution.

Thursday he tweeted: "A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme … Read more

The detective story is one of literature's most popular and versatile genres, with sleuths ranging from the mild-mannered Miss Marple to hard-boiled private eyes like Sam Spade. Jim Novak, the reluctant hero of the "Hollywood Murders" by Michael Zerbo, is the latter type, a 1950s style gumshoe straight out of Central Casting. The case involves a scandalous murder and the usual array of slinky dames, shady characters, and assorted thugs and snitches typical of film noir mysteries. It features photo-realistic graphics, sound effects, and an Infocom-style parser.

The software aspect of The Hollywood Murders is easy to … Read more

Jameg Blake and Kwame Dancy were neighbors in Harlem.

Now Blake is being accused of murdering Dancy. And, according to the New York Daily News, tweets sent between the two will be presented as important evidence in the murder trial.

The Daily News is suggesting a dispute between the two men started on Twitter and allegedly ended in Dancy being shot fatally in the neck on December 1 in Harlem.

Dancy is said to have sent a tweet, hours before the shooting, that read: ""N-----s is lookin for u don't think I won't give up ya … Read more

Caroline Wimmer was found strangled to death with a hair dryer cord in her apartment March 30.

Mark Musarella was allegedly one of the EMTs who arrived at the scene of the crime.

According to FOX 5 in New York, Musarella decided to take a photograph of Ms. Wimmer's body. He then posted it to his Facebook page.

Richmond University Medical Center officials saw the posting and fired Musarella, but refused to give reasons for his dismissal. However, the Staten Island DA is investigating the matter, according to Fox 5.

Wimmer's family believe that she was murdered (Calvin … Read more

Not one member of his family even came to support him in court.

David Heiss, an online gamer, was found guilty Monday of murdering fellow gamer Matthew Pyke, whom he had met on the Advanced Wars online chat forum WarCentral.com.

Heiss had become obsessed with Pyke's girlfriend, Joanna Witton, who was also an online gamer.

Last September, Heiss traveled from his home in Germany to Nottingham, England, where he stabbed Pyke 86 times in an attack that was frenzied, remorseless, and cold-blooded. As Pyke was dying, he tried to write the killer's name on the side of … Read more