Author: Cassy Fiano

How evil does someone need to be in order to be willing to imprison, torture, rape, and murder an elderly couple before taking off with their possessions? It’s hard to fathom, but that’s the depth of the evil lurking in convicted killer Tyrone Woodfork. Prosecutors said in court he first set his sights on Nancy […]

Some stories, you read them and wonder how someone can be so evil — others, you read them and wonder how someone can be so insane. The case of Ryeeah Hatcher is a case of the latter. When Ryeeah Christine Hatcher reached into a neighbor’s backyard, grabbed a puppy, and stuffed it in a backpack, […]

It’s a little sickening how men are usually convicted so harshly after killing their children, but if a mother does it, then she’s often given a light sentence because, well, any mother who would kill her children must be mentally ill. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case for Narjes Modarresi, sentenced to life in prison yesterday […]

There is much attention paid to crimes committed by illegal immigrants, but not as much notice is given to the fact that illegal immigrants are also at a high risk for being the victims of a crime, and especially women. They make good victims, after all — their fear of deportation almost guarantees that they […]

There’s no doubting the fact that kids today are coddled and babied, and that discipline seems to have gone the way of independence in childhood. But one Arizona woman took the idea of discipline way too far, when she punished her boyfriend’s daughter by forcing her to eat her own feces. An Arizona woman was […]

There aren’t many people who would argue that the saggy pants trend, most prominent in hip hop culture and among urban youth, is a good thing, especially considering that the look originated in prisons. But does that mean that people should be fined for wearing their pants too low? Pikeville, Tennessee has joined several other […]

Julie Schenecker, married to Army Col. Parker Schenecker, stunned the nation when she shot her teenaged son and daughter in cold blood in 2011. Her defense team tried to avoid responsibility for her crimes by claiming she was insane at the time of the killings, but the jury didn’t buy it, sentencing Schenecker to life […]

You’d think people who were engaging in criminal behavior would eventually learn that posting evidence of it on social media is just never a good idea. One couple, along with a teenager, did just that — posted a video of the teenager kicking a little boy in the head multiple times — and then promptly […]