True Crime Reality

What’s in a name? Apparently everything to President Trump, who has been changing the names of buildings, mountains and bodies of water. His latest executive order has renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America and one mapping company has refused to follow suit. Mapquest did not follow Google and Apple Maps, and instead tweeted that it would not change the name. That has led to hundreds of thousands of downloads and renewed interest in the 3 decades old company.
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A horrific story out of an affluent Chicago suburb has the country stunned by the similarities between Lindsay Clancy and 38-year-old mother of four, Corie Walshe. Walshe’s older two kids made the unimaginable discovery of their 2-year-old baby brother, Barrett, hanging from the basement rafters after they came home from school. Their mom was in the bathtub, reportedly trying to kill herself. Hours earlier she had been in a group chat with friends talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and police say Walshe told them she killed her toddler because he was the “anti-Christ.” Thankfully an infant was found unharmed in the home, but now Walshe is charged with first degree murder, leaving family, friends and the entire community in shock.
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Sony Pictures has officially fired longtime announcer Jim Thornton from “Wheel Of Fortune” after photos show Thornton on a known pedophile chatroom while on an American Airlines flight back in May. Now, TMZ has released new photos from the passenger who documented Thornton’s online activities, showing what he did after the flight attendant confronted him and told him to close his laptop. Thornton was looking for advice from AI about being digitally linked to the pedophile chatroom, even suggesting he was panicked. TMZ also identified Thornton’s chatroom handle, which exposes exactly what he was saying on the chatroom while in flight. We want to warn you, the messages are extremely disturbing. Thornton’s attorneys initially offered a flimsy explanation of accidentally clicking a link, but are no longer commenting, following his firing
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Five women. Five Hooters restaurants. Five shocking murders.
Jennifer Fessler sits down with The Hooters Murders: Deadly Shift showrunner Kevin Brennecke to uncover the disturbing connections between the cases and the warning signs that may have been missed. From workplace vulnerabilities to questions of safety and accountability, the documentary explores what happened to these women and why some former Hooters employees are still afraid to speak publicly.
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A one hour delay, turned into a three hour ordeal, that ultimately ended in a mistrial. After a judge from the Massachusetts Supreme Court denied the defense’s last-ditch effort for an emergency stay, Judge Sullivan officially declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial. There was no emotion on the faces of Lindsay Clancy, her family, or any of the jurors after the announcement was made, following 40 hours of deliberations and a grueling 5 week trial. There is already a status hearing on the books to prepare for a possible retrial, which the DA has not committed to as of yet, set for the end of the month.
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