guilty
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time; a look into all aspects of a guilty verdict from the burden of proof to conviction to the judge’s sentence and more.
The Real Murderer Revealed
In the heart of Washington, D.C., amid a city buzzing with politics and power plays, a gruesome murder shocked the local media. A young man named Aamir Shaikh — a freelance consultant with a history of shady deals and more enemies than allies — was found dead in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city.
By Engr. Mansoor Ahmadabout a year ago in Criminal
How One Mistake Trapped the Dark Web King
A man was sitting inside his luxurious Bangkok villa, browsing on his laptop, when suddenly, a loud crash echoed from outside. Unaware that the luxurious life he had built was moments away from its end, he left his laptop open and rushed outside.
By Chronicle of Powerabout a year ago in Criminal
The Impossible Prison Break - Alcatraz Escape
FBI officers were stunned. Even if a prisoner was left completely unguarded inside this prison, there was no way to escape. So how had three inmates slipped out right under the nose of the authorities—and not just that, but it took 10 hours for anyone to even realize they were missing?
By Chronicle of Powerabout a year ago in Criminal
Too Beautiful to Keep: The Crime of Cutting Noses in the Name of Honor
In some far-off tribal lands where mountains meet tradition, a dark chapter of history whispers through the silence. It is not written in textbooks. It is not shown in films. But it is real — and heartbreaking.
By Muhammad Adilabout a year ago in Criminal
African American Serial Killers Part 2
Legendary and late, great comedian and writer Paul Mooney almost delineated exactly what the brute Maury Travis wrote to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The comic referred to a serial killer outlining the idea of pointing out more bodies to be found. In Travis’ case, he played with the idea of letting journalists know his secret places where his victims could be located as well. While this is merely coincidental, the thought that a creative mind and a destructive one could coexist in the same country at the same time is intriguing.
By Skyler Saundersabout a year ago in Criminal
A genius robbery when determination surpasses the state. The Bank of Britain robbery.
On Sunday, 19/12, 2004, Kevin McCarlin, the branch manager of Northern Bank in Northern Ireland, was sitting at home with his wife watching TV. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and when he opened it, he was surprised by two men in police uniforms who told him: "Unfortunately, there has been an accident involving one of your family members, and you need to come with us to identify the body." But this was a lie; they were not police officers at all. As soon as he stepped outside, one of them put a gun to Kevin’s head, and the other grabbed his wife and pinned her by the knee. At the same time, just 20 miles away, a second family was being held hostage. Chris, an employee at the same bank, stood helpless as he saw his family threatened at gunpoint. They told them: "The instructions are simple: obey us, or your families will die within the next 24 hours." Kevin and Chris, under the orders of the gang, had to do things they never imagined they would do in their lives. They were required to go to work, smile at their colleagues, and participate in the biggest bank robbery in the history of the United Kingdom. They were the ones who would open the vault from which £26.5 million would disappear forever. No alarm would go off, no evidence left behind, and to this day, after 20 years, the robbers have never been caught and the money has never been recovered. Today, we will talk about the Northern Bank robbery, or as the media called it, “The Perfect Crime.” --- At the beginning, Chris Ward, an employee at Northern Bank, was sitting at home in West Belfast watching a match with his parents, brother, and girlfriend, when suddenly there was a knock on the door. Kevin went to open it and was surprised by a man standing at the entrance with a smile who said to him: "How are you, Chris? I came to talk to you about Celtic Football Club." Celtic was Chris’s favorite team, and he was an active member of the supporters’ club. Usually, people came to his house asking about tickets or events, so this seemed normal to him. But this time, the man’s visit was the biggest mistake of his life. He allowed the man to enter, and as soon as he did, two others who were hiding in the shadows behind the door followed him in. They entered the house, pulled out their weapons, and pointed them at the family. They said to him: "Chris, we are not here to talk about football; we are here to talk about your work in the cash department at Northern Bank." Chris froze, not knowing how to respond. They told him: "We know who you are and everything about you. We will take you with us for 24 hours, and your family will remain held hostage at home during this period." The first thing they asked was very simple: "Go and get your official work suit, leave the house, get into the car parked outside, don’t talk or look around, just follow instructions." Chris did as he was told, found the car ready with the door open waiting for him. They asked him to lie down on the back seat, and the driver was silent, his hand on the steering wheel and the other holding a gun. Chris got in the back, the car moved, and disappeared. Chris’s family remained hostages of the gang. --- Elsewhere, 20 miles away, Kevin McCarlin, the Northern Bank manager, was having tea with his wife Karen and watching TV. There was a knock on the door, and in front of him were two men dressed in Northern Ireland police uniforms, one holding a list of names including Kevin’s and his wife’s. They told him: "There has been an accident involving one of your family members, and you must come with us immediately to identify the body." But as mentioned before, this was a lie. As Kevin stepped outside, one of them put a gun to his head, and the other grabbed his wife and pinned her to the ground. Karen tried to resist and scream, but a third man intervened and threatened them with a weapon. They took Kevin and his wife to the guest room and forced them to stand against the wall, pointing their guns at them. They told him: "Forget your job at the bank and don’t think emotionally about your colleagues there. The only thing you should think about now is your family." They left the room, cleaned everything, erased their traces, and left no fingerprints. About an hour later, they told Karen she would be taken elsewhere and that a woman would take care of her there. They covered her eyes with adhesive tape instead of a blindfold. Kevin stood helplessly watching as his wife was dragged away, forced into a car, and disappeared. --- Kevin did not know that Chris had been taken and that their families were being held hostage at the same time. After taking Karen, they took Kevin to the same place where Chris was held. Kevin arrived to find Chris tied up with plastic cables in the kitchen. They untied Chris and took him to the living room with Kevin. They told them: "You have a simple choice: cooperate with us and your families will remain safe; make a mistake or hesitate, and the consequences will be deadly." The matter was simple: they had to rob Northern Bank. The gang gave them instructions, and everything had to be executed exactly as told; any mistake would cost their families dearly. Kevin realized the magnitude of the disaster, and that this was not just a robbery, but hostages were at the heart of the operation. --- The term "Tiger Kidnap" is known as a criminal method in Ireland during the Troubles, which lasted about 30 years, where an important person is kidnapped and forced to commit a crime on behalf of the gang. After the 1998 peace agreement, these crimes disappeared, but gangs were forced to invent clever ways to protect their money. --- Northern Bank was equipped with a strong security system, where the main vault required two keys to open, and the keys were held by Kevin and Chris. That night, they waited for instructions. A gang member gave them two phones: one for Chris marked with the letter “C,” and the other for Kevin marked with “K.” Each phone was restricted to one number only. Chris asked for a beer, and they agreed, but no one knows why to this day. --- One gang member explained the plan to them in detail, with a continuous sound of cleaning in the background during the explanation. The plan was very detailed, and the gang’s instructions were strict: any mistake meant death for the family. --- The basic plan: They had to go to work and act as if everything was normal. Take one million pounds from the vault in a bag provided by the gang. Place the bag at the bus stop, then return to the bank, activate the alarm system, and leave. They had to stay on the phone line with the gang because the other steps were very secret. --- At 11:30 AM, Kevin was driving and Chris was sitting next to him going to the bank. Despite the pressure of the Christmas season, the day was very different. At 4:30 PM, Kevin told employees there was a problem with the balances and started a comprehensive recount with Chris. After closing time, the bank was empty except for Kevin, Chris, and two security guards. --- At exactly 5 PM, the operation began. They went down to the underground cash center, used their keys to open the big door, and entered a room full of money: stacks of new and old banknotes, euros, US dollars, all piled up. They had to replace the metal seals on the boxes with fake white seals. Kevin knew blind spots in the cash center where cameras did not reach. They started packing the bag with one million pounds in 50 and 1-pound notes. --- After 15 minutes, Chris carried the bag and left the bank, went to the bus stop, and placed it there. After about three minutes, a man came and took the bag without talking to Chris. Chris returned to the bank, and the instructions were that the operation was not finished yet. --- They were asked to pack more money and had to understand how money entered and exited the bank. There was a special entrance called the “Polyembi Passage,” the only gate through which banknotes entered. Only one company, “Securra,” was allowed to use this passage to transport money. --- The plan was for a white van to come and take the boxes with replaced seals out of the bank as if they were paper waste. But entering the van through the Polyembi Passage required official ID cards. Kevin told them this was impossible; they replied: "You are the bank manager and earn a respectable salary, handle it." --- They returned to the bank and found 24 boxes, each holding between £500,000 and £1 million. They started moving the boxes on four carts, each carrying six boxes. They passed by the surveillance room which contained 27 screens recording everything. Kevin contacted Billy, the security guard, and told him a van would come to take the waste. --- Billy agreed to open the back gate. The van arrived, and two men got out and started carrying the boxes. 24 boxes were loaded, totaling £18.5 million, and the process took only 7 minutes. --- But the robbery was not over yet. They were asked to pack the remaining money in black plastic bags. This time, the money was mixed: new and used banknotes from euros and US dollars. The remaining amount was £5.1 million. --- The van returned again, carried the black bags, and entered the back passage. Billy was present and did not inspect or check the bags. --- After finishing loading all the money, they were asked to activate the alarm and leave as if nothing had happened. They got in their cars and returned home to check on their families. --- Kevin called the police after the operation and confessed his involvement in the robbery. The surprise was that the police had known about the white van they had spotted and had informed the traffic police, but the van left before the police arrived. --- A comprehensive police search campaign began, and several people were arrested in Belfast, Dublin, and Cork. But no conclusive evidence linking anyone to the robbery was found. --- Kevin McCarlin himself spent a year in jail accused of participation, but after 12 months, nothing was proven against him, and he was released. Likewise, Chris, who was just an employee, was arrested several times but no charges were proven. --- The robbery remains unsolved to this day, and the money has not been recovered. Chris and Kevin were found alive, but the families’ suffering continued. --- This was not an ordinary robbery; it was an insult to the security apparatus. £26.5 million disappeared, families held hostage, employees forced to cooperate, and the robbers vanished without a trace. The case remains open to this day. --- Could this perfect crime be solved someday? Or are there secrets we do not know? --- This is the story of the Northern Bank robbery, the biggest bank robbery in the history of Great Britain.
By Ink pulse(different angle)about a year ago in Criminal
The man who changed the ways of crime and first made the term serial killer popular.. Content Warning.
Bob Howard, a patrol officer in Salt Lake City, Utah, was sitting in his car in front of his house on Hogan Street on June 18, 1975. He had just finished his shift when a beige Volkswagen Beetle passed by without its lights on. He felt something was off. He knew his area well and knew that this car didn’t belong to anyone in the neighborhood. He decided to check it out and followed the car. The car stopped in front of his neighbor’s house, which was empty at the time; the parents were not home, and their two daughters (aged 17 and 19) were inside alone. Howard turned on his high beams to read the car’s license plate. The driver got scared and sped away, and of course, Howard chased him immediately. The driver ran through one stop sign and then another, and Howard continued following him because he sensed something was wrong. After a while, Howard managed to corner the car and stopped it at an abandoned gas station. The driver got out with his hands raised, wearing jeans, a black hoodie, and sneakers. His hair was dark and long, reaching his shoulders, and he smelled like marijuana. Howard pointed his gun at him. The man claimed he was a lost college student who had been watching a movie at an outdoor cinema but got lost on the way. However, Howard had passed by the cinema earlier, and the movie the man mentioned wasn’t playing. Howard knew he was lying and decided to search the car. Upon searching, he found something strange: the passenger seat was missing and replaced by an open bag containing very suspicious items — a ski mask, crowbar, ice pick, garbage bags, gloves, women’s underwear, rope, and wires. In the trunk, there were handcuffs. Howard told the man, “I’m going to arrest you tonight for fleeing the police, and I’ll ask the prosecutor to charge you with possession of burglary tools.” They went to the station, registered his data, and took photos. But after all procedures, there was no direct evidence linking him to a crime, so he was released on bail. Howard was very suspicious and believed this man was planning to break into his neighbors’ house where the two daughters were alone. But what Howard didn’t know at the time was that this man was no ordinary person — he was the most notorious serial killer in American history: Ted Bundy. Arresting him a second time wasn’t easy, because Ted Bundy was a monster. He didn’t scream or attack wildly; he was smart, organized, charismatic, but at the same time, he beat his victims to death. He appeared normal to everyone, but he was a serial killer inside. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ted Bundy committed kidnappings and murders of young girls. He appeared as a handsome, educated man, but he deceived everyone. He would approach his victims in public places pretending to have an injury or illness, ask for help, then hit them until they lost consciousness, and take them to isolated places where he abused and killed them. Over time, the number of missing girls increased, and the police began to notice a pattern, but they had no strong evidence. Bundy chose his victims carefully and knew how to hide his traces well. In November 1974, he committed a crime that left eyewitnesses who helped the police identify him. A girl named Carol DaRonch had been abducted but managed to escape and reported detailed information about him and his car. In 1975, Ted Bundy was arrested after a police chase, and tools indicating his intention to commit crimes were found in his possession. He was released on bail due to lack of sufficient evidence. Later, he was arrested again and put on trial. He tried to defend himself but escaped from prison twice using clever and deceptive methods. During his second escape, he committed murders in Florida, including killing women at a sorority house at the University of Florida. In February 1978, he was finally arrested after resisting a police officer. In 1979, he was sentenced to death for killing several victims. Before his execution, he confessed to killing 36 women, but it is believed that the number of his victims may exceed 100. His trial was the first to be televised nationally in the U.S., where millions watched the case details. He was executed in January 1989. Ted Bundy’s story is considered one of the most famous serial killer stories in history, teaching us the importance of caution, watching over children, and teaching them not to trust strangers, even if they seem friendly.
By Ink pulse(different angle)about a year ago in Criminal
80 Years Old Mystery of 5 Missing Kids
It was Christmas Eve, 1945. In the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia, the Sodder family was celebrating with joy and laughter. George Sodder, his wife Jenny, and their ten children filled their home with holiday cheer. The fireplace crackled, presents lay opened, and the children played happily with their new toys.
By Chronicle of Powerabout a year ago in Criminal
El Chapo's Unbelievable Prison Escape
Inside a maximum-security prison in Mexico, a man was being watched around the clock by CCTV cameras. His cell had no windows, no skylight—only a small shower stall in the corner. And yet, despite all this security, he vanished without a trace.
By Chronicle of Powerabout a year ago in Criminal
Zodiac: The Most Wanted Serial Killer of 20th Century
On the night of December 20, 1968, a young couple set out for their very first date. Seeking privacy, they drove toward Lake Herman in California. The couple—16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen and 17-year-old David Faraday—had no idea that a stranger was quietly tailing them.
By Chronicle of Powerabout a year ago in Criminal
