#trump is having a really bad week.

SO many federal judges are standing up to him, including #scotus who said they aren't going to listen to his appeals, and that the #usa is essentially lawless if he does not listen.

Judge Xinas is currently setting up a second contempt of court case, after judge Boasburg already started contempt proceedings.

This will allow them to start arresting people.

I want anyone complicit with Trump in JAIL.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10U4ZRBe?ctype=native_video&nid=3968825606842&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1745005262&actBtn=null

We have a first in American history.

#trump and his administration have been found in contempt of court, opening a door for criminal prosecution against Trump, and anyone involved in the #crime of kidnapping #kilmarabregogarcia and then refusing to facilitate his return.

It's a constitutional crisis and it will be an interesting point in #history to witness.

Our president is literally a criminal. He was before he was elected.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10RF2QoQ?ctype=native_video&nid=3966013326707&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1744847241&actBtn=null

#trump is going FULL DICTATOR, by defying #scotus and judge Xinas, ordering them to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Trump also announced his plans to send "home grown" US criminals to El Salvador.

He whispered under his breath to their president that he needs to build more prisons, and it leaked.

They're illegally kidnapping legal immigrants, then slandering them.

There is nothing stopping them from doing that to innocent citizens.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10PTrhuV?ctype=native_video&nid=3964261815328&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1744753131&actBtn=null

There is a high likelihood that #trump executed the biggest Insider trading event in #history by manipulating/crashing the entire American stock market.

Except it's still crashing unlike what he planned, so now even his billionaires are suffering, and made the wrong gamble.

Trump couldn't possibly be dumber, and didn't anticipate the entire world still hating us afterwards.

#maga got SWINDLED, and took sane people with them.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10JyxGjZ?ctype=native_video&nid=3958796930291&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1744387930&actBtn=null

I have a bad feeling about the #kilmarabregogarcia situation.

The #trump administration has stated after court orders again, that it is impossible to bring him home from El Salvador, after being wrongfully deported to a prison that is basically a concentration camp, where people regularly get beaten to death.

I wonder if they know he is dead, and they don't want another scandal. It isn't so unlikely.

I hope not, but contempt of court is looming, or another scandal.

There is an awful trend of "prank" streamers going to other countries, breaking laws, and then getting thrown in #prison as they are narcissistic lunatics with a death wish.

People like a streamer named #johnnysomali who is facing 15 years in #southkorea and Vitali, a washed up YouTube prankster facing 8 years in the #phillipines.

Many others too.

I find it #funny how they act so tough, then turn into begging children when facing real crimes.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10CpQlYf?ctype=native_video&nid=3951699968642&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1743980078&actBtn=videoShare

I am so shocked I dunno what else to say about this, I just want people to know because it was horrifying to me-

A woman in #georgia was arrested for having a #miscarriage that was no fault of her own after disposing of the fetus in a dumpster.

Guess we are going back to biblical times in the #usa and #liberals saw this coming.

I literally cried.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-woman-who-suffered-miscarriage-charged-after-fetus-found-dumpster/RBVG2CBSEZEGFLTSAC3LAWXP4M/

December 2023: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts 4 Russians for war crimes in #Ukraine

September 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts Russian cryptocurrency money launderer / cybercriminal #SergeyIvanov

November 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber accuses Virginia based companies of running "three different schemes to illegally transship sensitive American technology to Russia," including sending equipment to a Russian telecommunications company linked to the #Kremlin and Russia's notorious #FSB security agency.

March 2025: Former US District Attorney Jessica Aber found dead at age 43

More: https://www.newsweek.com/jessica-aber-death-2049234

Have you seen this series? I thought this dramatization of the Kim Wall case was really well done.

Gruesome subject, presented without undue visual sensation or spectacle.

"The sensationalized nature of the case is exactly what initially deterred Tobias Lindholm from any interest in dramatizing the case.

"But Tobias Lindholm changed his mind when he met Jens Moller, the lead investigator in Kim Wall’s case."
—from the article

The acting was subtle and riveting, the procedure well paced over six episodes.

Amazing tenacity on the part of the investigators, on land and sea.

The marine setting was interesting, and you even get a glimpse or two of the Øresund bridge.

A good film, and thorough.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35368170/kim-wall-the-investigation-hbo-series-true-story-death/

SCOTLAND YARD: A HISTORY OF THE LONDON POLICE FORCE'S MOST INFAMOUS MURDER CASES, by Simon Read, is an entertaining history of the London police agency, covering a lot of ground with very clear historical exposition. It begins with the Ratcliffe Highway Murders in 1811, before London had a police force at all, and began to push the government toward creating such an agency, which was founded in 1829.

Each chapter then describes a case or two and the ensuing investigation, some successful and some not. It turns out I've already read entire books about a bunch of these cases, in books such as THE ITALIAN BOY by Sarah Wise and THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER by Kate Summerscale. Luckily I read those books over a decade ago so revisiting the investigations here wasn't a problem.

Crimes rose and fell in frequency over time. The 19th century had a lot of murders committed as part of a theft or con job, though the Ripper murders were a startling break. Trains gave more mobility to criminals, who could attack a passenger or escape by train to a different city. Boy, there sure were a lot of trunk murders in the 1920s and 1930s!

In the late 19th and 20th centuries the Metropolitan Police began adopted new scientific techniques: fingerprinting, chemical analysis to identify bloodstains and poisons, forensic medicine, and ballistic analysis.

Overall I thought this was an enjoyable historical-crime book that was factual while staying pretty light.

I am stating this for my protection -

There is something insane going on where I live.

If I suddenly stop posting, the guy's name was Eric.

Will edit later when I know his last name.

He was scamming and selling drugs to disabled people in a facilityfor #healing from #addiction and #mentalhealth HURTING people with several others.

I became their "friend" and #recorded everything they did with audio to protect people, and me.

He had my number. Is sending me death threats and ran.

I've thought long and hard about this.

I built a #socialmedia presence to protect myself.

To seek #justice and speak out about what my father did to our #family and #poverty.

He #abused a woman with #tourettes into insanity, abused me into insanity and we were never the same.

Kidnapped me. Drove me to #idaho after I busted my hip and was staying with him in #seattle and was delusional, couldn't consent.

Jesse Hires - He works for #microsoft as a build engineer.

This sounds like an extraordinary memoir!

As a teenager, Tanya Smith stole bank reserves over the phone to help friends and neighbors pay off overdue utility bills. When the F.B.I. derided her, saying Black people "don’t have the brains" to pull off complex heists, she taught herself to hack computers and went on to steal tens of millions from banks and casinos in a multi-year crime spree

@bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c6fd7e99-e74c-4e1b-b769-9a84bf520f29

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True crime has been a ratings winner for podcast and TV producers since shows like "Serial" and "The Jinx" hit airways in 2014 and 2015. A new documentary, "Zodiac Killer Project," by Charlie Shackleton, seeks to send up and critique the form for its "slick amorality and its increasing laziness," says Sam Adams for Slate.

Here's his conversation with Shackleton, who discusses his movie, how the genre has evolved, and who's to blame for the proliferation of shows. "As time goes on, it’s felt more and more to me that the thing that’s really driving true crime’s endless expansion is how reproducible the formula is," he says. "That counts for more than any theorizing about audience appetite for lurid tales of the macabre, just quite how easy it is to do this stuff on a production line."

We want to know: What's your attitude to true crime shows? Tell us in the comments what's worth watching and listening to.

https://flip.it/j5cyDa

I guess Luigi Mangione isn’t the hero of the working class

https://realcrime.net/2024/12/10/i-guess-luigi-mangione-isnt-the-hero-of-the-working-class/

On December 1, 1946, sophomore Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden vanished. Her disappearance remains an unsolved mystery. Today it feels especially important to say her name.

I'm currently working on a book project that involves the Welden case. I'll post more soon, but for a (very brief!) preview, here's a video of my talk “Missing Students and Their Fictional Afterlives: #TrueCrime, #CrimeFiction, and #DarkAcademia," which I gave earlier this year at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining #Crime in #PopularCulture” conference.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q221yilebjot8zb6yn8a1/Missing-Students-and-Their-Fictional-Afterlives-presentation.mp4?rlkey=ege0jrqbwkfnv268ao6s6t2ze&st=9vi72sbm&dl=0

Much of the science used to convict Russell Maze of killing his baby is considered questionable. The evidence points so much toward innocence that the DA’s office called for his release.

He still might spend the rest of his life in prison.

https://propub.li/49k7XID

In a home invasion case BFU phone data led to the identification and conviction of the intruder. #TrueCrime #HomeInvasion #CriminalJustice #Forensics #PhoneEvidence #DigitalForensics #DFIR #MobileForensics

Unser Mitglied Lydia Benecke und Sarah Koldehoff besprechen in der aktuellen Folge ihres Podcasts "der Fall" die Taten eines vermeintlichen Wunderheilers und zeigen auf, wie gefährlich Pseudomedizin werden kann. (CN: sexualisierte Gewalt)

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/der-fall/missbrauch-beim-wunderheiler-der-fall/funk/13895621/