The U.S. Justice Department said it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms it alleges had been used in the campaign, which also targeted the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The U.S. Justice Department said it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms it alleges had been used in the campaign, which also targeted the U.S. Federal Reserve.
A 24-year-old man from Gambia remains in custody after police arrested him in connection with a rapid series of alleged sexual attacks on three women in Heidelberg. During the incidents, he allegedly attempted to rape the three women in short succession by dragging them into a cornfield.
Authorities say the incidents unfolded within roughly half an hour on Tuesday morning, Aug. 18, 2026, in an open field area beside the Pfaffengrund cemetery.
According to statements from the Mannheim police headquarters and the Heidelberg public prosecutor’s office, the suspect was walking in the fields around 10:00 a.m. when he approached a woman who was out with her dog. He is accused of grabbing her by the chest and attempting to pull her into a nearby cornfield. The woman shouted and fought back, managing to break free and run away, according to German newspaper Wochenblatt.
Minutes later, between approximately 10:25 and 10:30 a.m., the same man allegedly targeted two other female walkers separately. In each case he seized their hands or wrists and tried to force them toward the cornfield. Both women resisted vigorously, and he eventually released them without succeeding.
Witnesses who saw the confrontations contacted emergency services. Officers launched an immediate search and detained the suspect a short time later. During the arrest, he is further accused of grabbing a female police officer’s crotch.
The following day, the 24-year-old appeared before an investigating judge at the Heidelberg District Court. At the prosecutor’s request the judge issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of multiple counts of attempted sexual assault, sexual harassment, and additional related offenses. He was then transferred to a correctional facility.
Investigators have indicated they are examining possible other incidents linked to the same individual. The joint probe by the Heidelberg public prosecutor’s office and the criminal police continues.
Around 80.5 percent of asylum seekers from North African countries were accused of one or more offenses in Switzerland, underlining the massive amount of criminality present in this foreign population. The data comes from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).
For asylum seekers as a whole, the rate of criminality is much lower, with only 12.5 percent having been accused of one or more offenses. Nationals from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are therefore extremely overrepresented compared to other asylum seeker groups.
North Africans also have little chance of having their asylum applications accepted by Swiss authorities, with 99 percent of all applications rejected, according to Swiss newspaper Blick.
In 2024, a “24-hour” rule was introduced for accelerated asylum procedures for North African countries, which enables Swiss authorities to process asylum claims with a low chance of success more quickly. Applicants can still appeal the decisions, which can significantly increase delay in reaching a final decision.
“Criminals must leave Switzerland quickly. This is a priority of the asylum strategy,” said SEM spokesperson Daniel Bach.
However, the process is often delayed by the actions of asylum seekers, including refusing to provide fingerprints and failing to show up for deportation appointments.
Many applicants also obstruct the accelerated procedure: they refuse to provide their fingerprints, do not show up for appointments or quickly leave Switzerland. In these cases, their request can be filed without formalities.
Authorities are now working to implement new measures to quickly deport asylum seekers, including the “systematic use of coercive measures against the perpetrators of repeated offenses.” Authorities are also planning to introduce stricter rules for administrative detention.
The SEM also wants to increase cooperation with North African countries and recently signed an agreement with Morocco to accelerate the of asylum seekers ordered to be deported and help facilitate their return.
Mohamed L. is being released in France after just 4 years in detention, the same man who brutally murdered 40-year-old military doctor and father Alban Gervaise in front of his young children in 2022.
“It’s news that we’re trying to prepare for this early release after the murder, barely four years later. It’s news that is really hard to hear, that makes us really go back to our work of mourning for the children and me,” said Christelle Gervaise, the wife of Alban, in an interview with Legend TV.
“It’s true that it’s hard to imagine being able to be in the same city as him. It’s true that it’s quite unbearable for us.”
Mohamed L. is being released in France after just 4 years in detention, the same man who brutally murdered 40-year-old military doctor and father Alban Gervaise in front of his young children.
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Alban was stabbed to death while waiting outside his children’s Catholic school to pick up his two sons, aged 3 and 7, while his 20-month-old daughter was inside his car, in Marseille in May 2022.
Now, the killer will enjoy partial release during evenings and weekends “at liberty.”
The mother, Christelle, is terrified, and the courts so far have refused to listen to her pleas to block Mohamed L. from being in the same city as her and her children.
“I find that it is an additional concern in our lives that we didn’t really need. And I had to announce to my children this early release. There is necessarily a feeling of injustice. How can he leave prison so early after the murder of their father? And then, yes, there is a great concern on the part of my children. That’s for sure.”
This clip is a condensed version of her full interview, but it showcases the horror a French family is facing, both from the murderer and from the French judicial system.
In the interview, Christelle describes the moment of disbelief and grief when she first learned her husband had been stabbed.
“This is not possible, this is not possible, what is happening,” she told herself.
But it did happen, just as it has happened to countless Europeans year after year. Upon arriving on scene, she is greeted with an empty car and no sign of her children.
“And in fact, I’m going to see a first policeman who is going to accompany me to see the principal this time, who reassures me, my children are safe inside the school, all three of them, but I learn from a policeman who comes that my husband is between life and death and has been transferred to the hospital for resuscitation,” she said.
Alban spent 17 days in a coma, where she tried to tell him over and over again that the children were not harmed and that they needed their father.
“And during those 17 days, I talked to him a lot and he … I hope he heard me. I will never know…. I kept repeating several times to Alban that our daughter is fine, that she is okay, that nothing happened at all. Because I imagine that as a father, for him, it was terrible to be attacked like that with a knife. And then to see that he was going to lose his consciousness. He must have felt it and imagined his daughter in danger.”
“I also tell him that he can’t leave, he can’t leave us. Our children are very small, and I need him, the children need him.”
Then, she describes the moment when she had to tell her young children that their father is gone.
“The death announcement to the children is something that I will never forget and I think it’s the hardest moment of my life, really.”
She was forced to sit her children down and let them know what happened to their father.
“So I told them that I had terrible news to tell them, but that unfortunately, their father had died the night before,” said Christelle.
Now, after the terrible ordeal of losing a father and a husband, the French court system is releasing their father’s killer with zero restrictions on him entering the same city as the family. While there is a direct contact ban, there is no guarantee they do not run into Mohamed L. on the street.
Mohamed L. never even faced a trial. Why? He smoked too much cannabis and had a “psychotic break.” The court experts confirmed this, and just like that, authorities deemed he could not be held criminally responsible. No trial and freedom after just four years.
“The fact that he is not imprisoned like a murderer for 15, 20 years in prison. It’s terrible for us. It’s terrible to know the violence Alban has suffered. And in addition, we must accept that after four years, his murderer is outside on evenings and weekends.”
“I am very worried, first of all, about the risk of recidivism. And then I find that for us, it is also a concern, since this person has the right to come to Marseille.”
She said that the authorities involved in the decision say Mohamed L. “must be able to benefit from it, he must have the necessary care.”
The murder already led the children to be forced from their own school. Now, they may have to leave their own city.
“My children have already had to change schools since it happened. They had to change friends. If, in addition, I tell them that we are leaving the city completely because the murderer and their father have the right to go where they want, I think that it is difficult to understand for them. I can’t help but say to myself, I don’t know where he is, I don’t know what he’s doing,” Christelle said.
She is fighting desperately with her lawyer to ensure this killer is no longer allowed in her city.
“The goal is that, is to have a measure that makes it forbidden for him to go to Marseille.”
“It is something that we carry on our shoulders with the children and that we will carry for a very long time.”
After his arrest, while held at Baumettes prison, he attempted to assault a guard, which contributed to his transfer to a psychiatric unit for difficult patients (UMD). This occurred after the murder and presumably, cannabis was not a factor in this assault.
Shockingly, during the trial, one of the psychiatrists openly said that they cannot predict whether the murderer will “relapse.”
“The question of the risk of a relapse. One of the psychiatrists had answered that it was a bit like predicting a plane crash, that it was impossible to predict. Psychiatrists who take care of this type of patient do not have a crystal ball to be sure that there will be no relapse. And this risk is still to be taken into account in the decisions to allow this person to be in the street today,” she said.
In other words, psychiatric experts admit Mohamed L. may murder again, yet, he is being allowed out on evenings and weekends anyway.
Christelle still has questions about how the man was deemed psychologically unfit to stand trial.
She said that after passersby tackled Mohamed L., he screamed: “In the name of Allah, I gave him 30 stab wounds!”
In response, Christelle said: “I always ask myself the question of something that was more premeditated than what you want to make me believe… We are talking about someone who can kill someone in the street. My husband only lasted a few moments. It’s not a fight, it’s a murder.”
“You think he’s going to go to prison. It doesn’t happen as planned. In relation to the trajectory of the murder of my husband,” she added.
“What is complicated, in fact, with this decision, is that we have no idea of the deadline. We don’t know how long he’s going to stay at the hospital in a closed unit. We don’t know how to answer this question. And despite everything, we can still hear that it is difficult to announce to his children that the murder of their father is not condemned to prison, but will have care for an undetermined duration. I also felt deprived of answers to certain questions,” she said.
Regardless, three children are now missing a loving father, with Alban’s wife describing a happy home life before his murder: “We had a life with Alban who was quite classic and very happy. We met in 2009. I was a medical student and he was an intern. We got engaged and then we got married. We had three children. We moved several times because Alban was a military doctor. So we met in Lorraine. Then we went to Paris for his work. Then to Marseille in July 2021. And we really had a very happy family life because Alban was a very loving husband, very loved and a father really present for his children and very invested in his role as a father.”
David Kushner first met Anthony Curcio nearly two decades ago, to tell the story of how Curcio masterminded a $400,000 bank robbery and escaped on an inner tube. His latest on Curcio is every bit as outlandish: After his release from federal prison, Curcio waded deep into the trading card industry, dealing in top-rated Michael Jordan and Nolan Ryan cards and coming under scrutiny for suspected fraud. Curcio contends that the real villain is Collectors Holdings, a private company that owns Professional Sports Authenticator, which evaluates and assigns value to trading cards. A thrilling piece of reporting about authenticity—as an idea, a value, and maybe even a front.
Three months later, on the early morning of May 23, 2024, Curcio was walking through his neighborhood in Redmond. It was quiet — what he called “raccoon hours.” Then he heard cars coming up behind him. FBI agents stormed him, guns drawn; he counted around 20. “What the fuck is this about?” he said. “You’re here for sports cards?” He told them about the judgment he’d just won against Captain Ticket. They said they knew all about it.
Forget masked robbers, getaway cars, and elaborate bank vaults. Some of the biggest heists of the modern era have required little more than laptops, stolen credentials, clever code, and an understanding of systems holding billions of dollars in digital assets. Cryptocurrency has created a new kind of crime story. Hackers have stolen fortunes without ever […]
Two different sexual assault targeting young female minors occurred nearly at the same time on Saturday in swimming pools in close proximity to one another, with one of the suspects still on the run.
At around 3:45 p.m., a dark-skinned male was arrested for sexually assaulting two 11-year-old girls at an outdoor swimming pool in the German city of Untersteinbach. The man allegedly touched their thighs and legs in the water, with pool staff moving in to detain the man until police arrived.
Police have not released the man’s nationality, but he was described in the police report as 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds. Furthermore, they said the man was a 37-year-old with dark skin and was 1.83 meters tall, or 6 feet tall. He has black, curly hair and a “high forehead,” according to the Tag24 news outlet, according to Tag24 news outlet.
Authorities are still searching for witnesses and do not rule out that other victims could come forward.
A German woman says "it's a disaster" for women in swimming pools across Germany. She now dreams of her childhood before a certain "clientele" made German swimming pools "just awful."
Almost at the exact same time, a similar sexual assault at yet another German swimming pool occurred at the outdoor swimming pool at Rendelstraße in Öhringen. There, a “tan-skinned” perpetrator sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl, groping her buttocks and grabbing her stomach three separate times in the water.
She told police the suspect had “tan” skin, short black hair, dark eyes, tall, is between 40 and 50 years old, and had a face with distinct wrinkles. He was dressed in black with a black bathing suit.
The man was with a group of five to six other men at the time.
An Indian employee of a catering firm in the Val-d’Oise department of France, located near Paris, has been indicted on charges of raping two vulnerable migrant colleagues but will continue to remain free on the street under judicial supervision. The decision stands after the prosecution’s appeal was dismissed for having been filed beyond the statutory deadline, a legal technicality.
According to details reported by French newspaper Le Parisien, the case began on April 17 when an undocumented worker of Sri Lankan origin employed by the same caterer in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône went to the police to accuse a 34-year-old Indian colleague of rape. She alleged that he had exploited her precarious migration status to rape her, counting on her silence out of fear that she would lose both her job and any chance of being legalized to stay in France.
A short time later, a second female employee of the company lodged a complaint of rape against the same man, describing circumstances that were essentially identical. Both women said the man raped them and then blackmailed them due to their illegal status to win their silence.
In early July, the man was arrested at his home in Pontoise. He had worked for the catering firm since 2015, is the father of three children and had no prior criminal record.
Placed in custody, he firmly denied the allegations during questioning and claimed he was the victim of a plot hatched by the women.
Despite his claims, he was subsequently indicted for the rape of vulnerable persons. However, the judge ordered his release under judicial supervision, requiring him to live in Normandy and forbidding any contact with the two migrant women he allegedly raped.
The public prosecutor’s office, persuaded that pre-trial detention was necessary, lodged an appeal against the release order. A procedural failure inside the services of the Versailles Court of Appeal, however, meant the file could not be examined within the legal fifteen-day period. Consequently the investigating chamber had no option but to record the missed deadline and uphold the judicial supervision already imposed on the indicted man.
The suspect’s employer, which operates sites in both Paris and the Val-d’Oise, quickly terminated the man’s employment.
Following a trial, a 29-year-old Palestinian has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on a bus in the French city of Toulouse. The girl, named Clara to protect her identity, openly sobbed in court while sitting next to her mother.
On June 18, the young girl was riding the L11 bus in the city when the Palestinian migrant, Ahmed, sat next to her. Ahmed spoke in court through a translator, claiming he thought he saw the teenager give “a sign” to him that she wanted to get to know him. Ahmed said he was attracted to Clara “at first sight.”
After Ahmed got on the bus, he went to sit next to the victim, at which point he began to rub her shoulders before he grabbed her transport card, which she had been holding between her legs, according to French news outlet La Depeche. He then grabbed her thighs before moving his hands to her chest. The Palestinian was then arrested after a criminal complaint.
In court, after recounting that he was attracted to Clara, he apologized for his sexual assault in criminal court, saying: “I thought carefully. I would like to apologize. I have trouble behaving around girls. That day, I was elsewhere, I behaved badly.”
“Do you realize that she is traumatized?” the judge responded.
Ahmed fled Gaza and arrived in France in March 2025. He said he has had a difficult existence in France living on the street and in squats. He also says he has been actively consuming cocaine and alcohol “to suffer less psychologically.”
He was then given taxpayer-funded social support and offered accommodations in Cugnaux.
Ahmed told the court that he experienced war and violence during his childhood and adolescence.
The court found Ahmed guilty and sentenced him to six months in prison with continued detention. He is also being banned from French territory for two years and is no longer allowed to participate in any activity involving minors. He will also be a registered sex offender.
A civil case may also rule on further damages related to the 15-year-old girl he targeted.
This is far from the only incident in Toulouse. Last year, Remix News reported on a 54-year-old Senegalese migrant who committed serial sexual assaults on the city’s bus lines over the course of three years, with the man targeting multiple women at different times.
In 2025, Remix News reported that sexual assaults on French public transport had risen 86 percent over the preceding ten years.
French authorities have launched a murder investigation after an agricultural worker discovered the partially charred, naked body of a woman in a vineyard last week near Nîmes. While official identification remains pending, the victim is believed to be 29-year-old Sonia Bellina, a popular social media influencer who went missing on Aug. 10.
Bellina, who lived between Paris and Nîmes, built a following of nearly 380,000 users across two TikTok accounts and 13,000 followers on Instagram.
JUST IN: The body of 29-year-old French TikToker Sonia Bellina has been discovered naked and charred in vineyards in Saint-Gilles.
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The Nîmes public prosecutor’s office opened the homicide inquiry following the Aug. 12 discovery in Saint-Gilles, located roughly 12 miles outside Nîmes. The investigation has been assigned to the Gard gendarmerie group and the Nîmes gendarmerie research section.
Speaking to reporters, a woman identifying herself as the victim’s older sister, Mia, said Bellina vanished after leaving for a date the night before the body was found, according to French news outlet Le Dauphine.
“She told us she was going out one evening, she never came back,” Mia said, adding that her sister was scheduled to meet someone she had been seeing. “She ran into the wrong guy at the wrong time.”
La jeune influenceuse gardoise, Sonia Bellina disparue le 10 août, retrouvée carbonisée à Saint-Gilles le 12 août. Sa famille, convaincue de son identité, dénonce le harcèlement en ligne et les commentaires haineux qui persistent même après sa mort.#SoniaBellina#meurtre… https://t.co/UPEklp591xpic.twitter.com/Bjqcy8OkKY
Family members have pushed back against online speculation regarding Bellina’s personal life and background, pleading for privacy as the investigation unfolds.
No arrests have been announced, and French authorities have not officially named a suspect in the ongoing investigation. The family is pleading for witnesses or people with information about the murder to come forward.
The Nîmes prosecutor’s office assigned a dedicated criminal task force of up to 40 gendarmes to comb the vineyards for microscopic forensic evidence and map out her final movements.
The house with the red-brick exterior, huge old-growth maple, and sprawling back patio on Castle Frank Crescent in Toronto’s pricy Rosedale neighborhood seemed like the perfect symbol of generational wealth and respectability. As Malcolm Johnston reports for Toronto Life, the occupants, Chakib Mansouri and Majdouline Alouah, might have appeared to be upwardly mobile, driving fancy cars and “dripping” with designer couture. In reality, they funded all their luxuries with a life of crime.
By the fall of 2023, Mansouri and Alouah were so engrossed in their lives of leisure that neither picked up on the vehicles tailing them, day after day. Nor did they notice the plainclothes officers posted up on street corners, in condo lobbies and at cafés, collecting evidence that would expose the couple’s part in an audacious scam that stole more than $185 million from victims in Toronto, across Canada and around the world.
A 108-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed in the French city of Lyon on Aug. 7, 2026, in the Villeurbanne suburb of the city.
Around 10:30 a.m., a home caregiver arrived at the 108-year-old woman’s apartment to provide care. The caregiver found the elderly woman partially naked, in a state of shock, and sitting on her sofa. The victim was unable to explain what had happened. Reports note that, given her age and condition, she was a priori not able to undress herself alone.
Emergency services were alerted about the woman’s condition. She was taken to the hospital for examination and medical analyses, according to French news outlet CNews.
Investigators determined that a burglary had taken place. Several individuals allegedly forced open a kitchen window to enter the apartment. Several rooms were searched and ransacked, and bottles of perfume were stolen.
The Lyon prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for burglary by breaking and entering and sexual assault. The sexual assault qualification was retained specifically “given her state of nudity at the time of discovery.” No other details were provided about the woman’s condition.
There have been no announced arrests or identifications of suspects, who remain on the run.
No specific descriptions of the perpetrators, additional stolen items, forensic results, or precise circumstances of the undressing beyond the initial findings have been made public. The investigation is ongoing.
A police union spokesperson, Benjamin Camboulives of Alternative Police (CFDT), commented publicly that “the delinquents no longer have any limits,” but this added no new factual information about the case itself.
A shocking new case has come to light, which involves three Syrians gang raping a 10-year-old girl, with the men also urinating on her and smearing her with feces. Incredibly, there are no public news reports about this incident. The case was only revealed due to prominent national victim advocate Michael Kyrath, who disclosed he is actively working with the victim as part of his victim outreach efforts.
Kyrath described the details of the case during an appearance on ServusTV during a debate with a number of speakers on immigration, crime, and politics. which was published yesterday,
3 Syrians gang raped and urinated on a 10-year-old girl in Germany.
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“We are currently caring for over 1,000 victim families. We are currently supporting 36 young women who have become victims of sexual violence, including so-called gang rapes, which didn’t exist here at all 10 or 15 years ago. The youngest victim I am supporting was raped over several hours by three Syrians. They urinated on her, smeared her with feces, beat her, and kicked her. This girl is 10 years old. 10 years old!” said Michael Kyrath during his appearance.
He continues by saying: “These perpetrators cannot be rehabilitated through therapy, if only because the training of our therapists is tailored to Central European socialization… That means we aren’t even capable of rehabilitating these people.”
There is no public record of this case, which may have to do with the age of the victim. However, similar cases have also come to light in recent years, including the recent trial involving two Iraqis who raped a 7-year-old child in Essen. In that case as well, there was extremely limited coverage, with the case only coming to light once the trial started, with only one news outlet reporting on the details with an incredibly short news clip.
It raises the question of how many cases are not being publicized by the news media regarding young victims being raped in Germany by immigrants. While the issue of foreigners raping Europeans has proven politically explosive, children being raped is a step even further. With each such case coming to light, it could shift public sentiment even further towards the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which may also be a political factor regarding why these cases are being suppressed.
Kyrath’s own daughter, 17-year-old Ann-Marie, was stabbed to death dozens of times by a Palestinian migrant, along with her 19-year-old boyfriend Danny. Kyrath now works as a tireless advocate for families and victims of migrant violence, making frequent appearances on debate panels on major television networks.
During the interview, he also discussed the role of immigration and crime in the country.
“It’s always the same perpetrator profile, it’s almost always the same weapon, it’s virtually the same sequence of events, it’s the same motives, and for 11 years, it’s been the same empty phrases from responsible politicians that we’ve been hearing ever since—that it’s not that bad, you have to differentiate, you have to be careful, we must not play into the hands of the right, and all the other things we hear. People are dying every day, children are dying every day. And here we are, debating right versus left,” he said.
He further addressed the state of Germany and the so-called “fight against the right,” a theme that dominates the public media networks.
“We can go on, we can completely open up this topic. If you come to Germany: our schools are crumbling, the healthcare system is broken, internal security is eroded, trains don’t run on time, planes don’t run on time. But the main thing is: the fight against the right. Do you think any citizen whose children are beaten up at school because they eat pork cares about the fight against the right, or the right and the left? That doesn’t interest any citizen anymore. I am terribly sorry, but they are far removed from reality and what citizens see out there.”
Kyrath notes that in his work as a master craftsman, every step is documented and regulated, and yet, migration involving hundreds of thousands of foreigners remains a black hole for German authorities, who often do not know which country these individuals are from, or even the real name or birth date of tens of thousands of migrants.
“We don’t know how many illegal people are in this country, where they are, what their goals are, what their views are, or if they are willing to respect our way of life. Instead, we put them in container villages, give them a few euros every month, and call that successful integration. That is a completely false example from certain people living in a prosperity-decayed bubble, applauding themselves for how great they are. In reality, that has nothing to do with humanity or Christianity,” he said.
Claims that migrants are a boon to the job market are also sharply squashed by Kyrath.
“And here we come to the topic of skilled workers, as you mentioned earlier. As a master craftsman, I can tell you what requirements we have to meet today just to hire or employ someone, with all the documentation duties. I am terribly sorry, but 90 percent of the people coming here cannot be employed by us because we are simply not allowed to, because they don’t meet the requirements. They don’t have the schooling, the training, or the security checks,” he stated.
He even touched on a growing theme that Remix News has published on extensively, which is the fact that artificial intelligence and automation are in the process of rendering mass immigration pointless. As Asia increasingly shows, migration is not necessary for successful economies. In fact, it may even be an impediment, as cheap labor hinders capital investment in automation. Countries like South Korea, Japan, and China — all nearly zero immigration countries — are pulling ahead of Europe in countless areas, including renewable energy, AI, robotics, and the automotive sector, all while embracing science over ideology.
While addressing a point made about Spain and its inability to integrate migrants into the workforce and education system, Kyrath stated: “That also touches on a philosophical question: what will things look like in 10 to 15 years? With AI-supported technology, do we even need humans for these jobs in the future? Today, you don’t need a doctor when you have an Apple Watch, you don’t need taxi drivers, garbage collectors, or even teachers. Where are all these people supposed to go in 10 to 15 years? How will they be employed?”
Regarding the murder of his daughter Ann-Marie, the host said: “The perpetrator had multiple previous convictions, had stabbed another man in the neck the year before, had no right of residence, and moved from state to state. Have you received any answers from politicians regarding how such a person was still in the country?”
To which Kyrath answered, “On a state level, politicians listened to us and took our concerns seriously. But at the federal level, very few engage with the topic. We invited the Federal President, the Chancellor, and all 16 state premiers to an event in Frankfurt, and we received unanimous rejections, claiming they couldn’t attend every small association event.”
When Jessica Black was 16 years old, she told a story to North Carolina police detectives that helped convict five friends of murder. Decades later, she’s still trying to correct the record. Matthew Bremner’s feature for Financial Times is a brisk tick-tock of efforts by Black and her incarcerated friends to overturn criminal convictions they claim were built on disturbing intimidation tactics.
The investigators do not accept these firm denials. To them, they seem likely to be the initial stories of a group of boys who know more than they are saying. As officers move in and out of interview rooms, carrying information from one interrogation to the next, the pressure intensifies. They tell the teenagers that their friends are already telling their side of it, that they should too. Under North Carolina law in 2002, police are permitted to exaggerate, even to suggest they have evidence they do not possess. There is no rule requiring a parent or other adult to be present while 14- and 15-year-olds are questioned. For most of their time in these rooms, the five boys are alone. When I interviewed him in late 2025, Tolliver told me that a detective asked him to hold out his arm. “That’s the vein,” he told him. “This is where the lethal injection would go.”
In the late 18th century, no man in Edinburgh seemed more respectable than William Brodie. By day, he was a successful cabinetmaker, a member of the city council, and a deacon of the Incorporation of Wrights and Masons, one of the most prestigious tradesmen's guilds in Scotland. But by night, Brodie led a secret life as a burglar and thief, moving through the dark streets of the city with the same keys and skills that had earned him the trust of its wealthiest citizens.
His extraordinary double life eventually ended at the gallows. A century later, Brodie’s life inspired one of literature's most famous tales of dual identity: Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
On November 9, 1963, two investigators from France’s Central Office for Counterfeit Currency Control (OCRFM) arrived at the post office on Rue Turgot in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. Five days earlier, a customer had purchased 1,000 francs’ worth of Treasury bonds there using a stack of crisp 100-franc notes bearing the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte. At first glance, nothing seemed unusual. The notes looked authentic, felt authentic, and even carried convincing watermarks. But they were counterfeit.
A 'Bonaparte' 100 Franc notes that Ceslaw Bojarski forged. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
When Leslie Buck was discovered dead in her home in 2002, Mystic, Connecticut, went into shock. What had happened to the grade school teacher and who had wanted her to die? For journalist Brenna Ehrlich, this one was personal; Buck had been her teacher in grade one. In her latest for Rolling Stone, Ehrlich returns to Mystic to learn more about who Leslie Buck was and why she was murdered.
And Anna Greene, my second-grade teacher, told me about the poems she found in Leslie’s desk after she died — that she read at the funeral. There’s one about the kids who are different, “who don’t fit,” who “dance to a different drum.” For some reason, that hit me harder than police reports or autopsies. More than the horrors that true-crime often focuses on. I still can’t read it without crying. Maybe because I definitely was one of those kids, or maybe it’s just because it shows that she truly saw her students — all of them. Or maybe it’s a much-needed reminder that Leslie Buck isn’t a story, a case to be solved. She was a person. And she deserves to be remembered.
When Steven Judy was executed for rape and murder in 1981, he was little more to the public than a monster. To Traci and Randy Carr, he was something else: a hero and a protector. After all, he was their foster brother. For The Guardian, Masha Hamilton—who covered the Judy trial as a young reporter more than 45 years ago—returns to Indiana to meet the Carrs, and to take the measure of the hole rent in their lives by Judy’s actions and disappearance.
Her mother has begun appearing again in her sleep: Mary holding her, comforting. Almost as if speaking aloud what had been buried for decades had called her mother back.
“Everyone hated Steve, and we were told we should too,” Traci says. “For a long time, I thought we did something wrong, and I was ashamed. People treated us like we had raised a murderer. It’s still how people remember us. I don’t think Mom ever got to grieve properly. I don’t think any of us did.”
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Mohamed L. is being released in France after just 4 years in detention, the same man who brutally murdered 40-year-old military doctor and father Alban Gervaise in front of his young children.
