Top Stories
Stories in Criminal that you'll love, handpicked by our team.
If it looks too good to be true – it probably is. Top Story - August 2022.
We all live in trying times. Epidemic hit hard the world’s economy and everyone personally. Inflation, volatile energy prices, supply chain disruptions, rising interest rates…There were numerous surveys conducted and predictions made on what could we expect in the nearest future: would it become better? Or worse? But a prognosis is not something that is carved in stone or a definite plan to act upon.
By Natalia Grin4 years ago in Criminal
Capital Punishment versus Life Imprisonment . Top Story - July 2022.
Gandhi once said, “an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind” (Dogra, 2019) and others like Martin Luther King and the Bible have reiterated this, however society today lives without the ladder. Revenge has always been apart of society including in constitutions. Capital punishment also known as the death penalty is an extremely controversial issue reflecting that society may never let go of the revenge mind set. Capital punishment may not be the justice that victims are searching for, life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is effective of taking away the perpetrator’s life and freedoms. Capital punishment is also an immense financial burden in comparison to LWOP as well as the moral burden of the death penalty. Capital Punishment and a life sentence are both taking away a life, however a life sentence is morally superior and easier to accept in society.
By Brynn Pearson4 years ago in Criminal
The Story Of The "Toy Box Killer". Top Story - July 2022.
Cynthia Vigil, then 22 years old, was hooking in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, parking lot on March 19, 1999, when a man posing as an undercover police officer told her she was being arrested for soliciting sex work and put her in the back of his car.
By Victoria Velkova4 years ago in Criminal
Saying Goodbye (For Now) To My Morbid Hobby Turned Obsession. Top Story - May 2022.
In recent years, I’ve taken up a, more often than not, rather morbid hobby; one that millions of Americans indulge in every day. As a nation and as a global society, our obsession with this particular genre of information has inspired TV shows, movies, books, and entire societies/communities; both digital and not.
By Soha Sherwani4 years ago in Criminal
Emmett Till & Trayvon Martin. Top Story - May 2022.
Two young teenage African American boys from different states and different time eras. Fifteen-year-old Emmett Till was staying with his relatives in Mississippi until two white men abducted him in the middle of the night, tortured and lynched him at the Tallahatchie River, and Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was staying at his father's place in Sanford, Florida. At night, he was going to the store when he was about to return home when he was followed by a neighborhood watchman. These two teenage boys' murders sparked a lot of attention in the black communities and sparked movements. From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter Movement. These are the stories of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin.
By Gladys W. Muturi4 years ago in Criminal
"Telling a Lie" - Does it Work as the Main Plot Device of a Story?. Top Story - April 2022.
I love reading and I want to love everything that I read. But, alas, I do not end up enjoying every story. There are some that I admire immensely and there are others that fail to impress me. In this blog, I would like to talk about two stories, viz., "Anything You Do Say" and "The Lying Game", that just could not hold my attention because of their main plot device - "characters lying to one another".
By Kaumudi Singh5 years ago in Criminal
The Unsolved Case of Kayla May Berg. Top Story - March 2022.
Article first published on Medium LOST AND FOUND, and LOST AGAIN On August 10th, 2009, two worried mothers made the decision to go to the police department for help. Their two daughters, Kayla and Natasha, failed to return home from the previous evening’s event. Each mother was told the night before that their daughter was staying at the other girl’s home for the night—not true, and not an uncommon teenage shenanigan. This time, what they sold as an innocent sleepover was actually a pretext to get away from their respective houses for the night to attend an outdoor bonfire party.
By J. Nathaniel Lee5 years ago in Criminal
How A Fake Heiress Scammed New York's Elite Out Of $275,000. Top Story - March 2022.
Picture the scene, a young woman exits a black chauffeur-driven Bentley. She’s dressed head-to-toe in couture, her hair is professionally blow-dried and you observe her walking purposefully towards the entrance of an upscale boutique hotel.
By Eleanor Graysun5 years ago in Criminal
