Mother gets a mere 13 years for putting her baby in the over, burning her to death

In a triumph of criminal justice efficiency, the legal system has determined that the going rate for placing a month-old infant into a preheated appliance is precisely thirteen years in a state facility. Yes, merely 13 years!

Mariah Thomas, a 28-year-old resident of Jackson County, Missouri, entered a guilty plea to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death. This modest resolution comes after prosecutors graciously dropped the original first-degree murder charge to seal a plea agreement just two weeks before a pesky jury trial might have complicated matters. Why they thought that it was reasonable to drop the charge of first degree murder is beyond my comprehension.

Presiding Judge Sarah A. Castle handed down the 13-year sentence with no possibility of probation, though credit was generously extended for time already served. To ensure complete restitution to society, the court also assessed a stern financial penalty: a $68 fee directed to Missouri’s Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund.

Official court records explicitly note that Ms. Thomas suffered from no mental disease or defect defense, leaving observers to ponder the sheer logistical feat involved in the sequence of events. 

According to initial reports from February 2024, Kansas City first responders arrived at the scene to find the infant suffering from extensive, lethal burns, with her clothing fused directly to her diaper. 

The defense’s core narrative rested on a rather unique spatial mix-up. As investigators were informed, Thomas had simply intended to put her daughter down for a nap, but "accidentally placed her in the oven instead of the crib."

A relative reiterated this startling explanation to detectives, recounting that Thomas claimed, "I thought I put [her] in her crib and I accidentally put her in the oven."

Yeah, that happens a lot.

At the time of the initial filing, then-Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker offered standard bureaucratic solemnity, remarking, "We acknowledge the gruesome nature of this tragedy, and our hearts are weighted by the loss of this precious life." Baker added, "We trust the criminal justice system to respond appropriately to these awful circumstances."

Whether a decade plus in prison constitutes an appropriate response remains a lively topic online. 

Coming on the heels of other high-profile domestic infanticide trials where accountability seemed to evaporate, digital onlookers have expressed profound confusion over how an act of such extraordinary lethality yields a prison stay shorter than the time it takes for a child to reach high school graduation. 

Nevertheless, Thomas now awaits transfer to state custody, having successfully demonstrated how a top-tier plea bargain can trim a lifetime murder charge down to a minor bump in the road.

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Holdout juror on Clancy Case says "activists" wanted "not guilty" on Day 1

The Lindsay Clancy jury has now explained itself, and the explanation is a masterpiece of civic self-regard. 

Eleven people sat through weeks of evidence that a mother strangled her five-year-old, her three-year-old, and her eight-month-old, then decided the real story was their own opportunity to improve the lot of women. 

One juror said it out loud: they understood the case as a turning point that could “change something to make it better for other women in the future.” If that doesn't disgust you, there's something wrong with you.

The three children were, in this telling, supporting characters in a policy seminar. They took an oath to apply the law to the facts. They then treated the oath the way a committee treats a mission statement—something to be recited and immediately subordinated to the larger project. 

From the first day of deliberations, according to the holdout juror they later helped identify, eight of them arrived already committed to acquittal. That is, they had already made up their minds before the trial got underway.

They spent the rest of the week converting the remaining holdouts. 

When one man declined to join the project, they complained that he was ignoring the judge’s instructions. The people who had recast a triple homicide as a chance to start a national conversation about women’s mental health were suddenly very particular about process.

The same cohort that celebrates “jury equity” when climate or Palestine protesters smash windows now discovered that equity is a one-way valve. Conscience is sacred when it produces the preferred outcome. When it produces a single vote for guilt, it becomes obstinacy, perhaps even a character defect worth leaking to the press. 

These despicable jurors wrapped themselves in the language of compassion while treating the man who would not play along as the problem to be solved. Then they expressed surprise that the public noticed the mismatch. 

This is the peculiar genius of the activist juror. 

The courtroom is no longer a place where twelve strangers decide whether this defendant did this act with this state of mind. It is a platform. The dead children become nothing more than raw material. The oath becomes optional. 

And the holdout who insists on doing the actual job is recast as the extremist. Imagine the perversion of thought to get to this point.

The system is supposed to survive this kind of improvement. It will be interesting to see how many people still believe that after watching the improvers at work.

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Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Has One Small Problem With His Trump Pardon Request

Apparently, when your client murdered her three children, the next logical step is to ask President Donald Trump to ride in on the White House horse and make the whole thing disappear. 

That appears to be the strategy of Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, who is now asking Trump to pardon his client after a Massachusetts jury managed to deadlock over whether she was criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three young children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan.

Appearing on “Good Morning America,” Reddington made his unusual appeal to Trump after the jury failed to reach a verdict in a trial that has generated a massive national debate over mental illness, criminal responsibility, and whether a person can be held accountable for horrific acts committed during an alleged psychotic episode.

“I’d like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case … Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady, [the] type of person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon,” Reddington told leftist host George Stephanopoulos.

There is, however, one tiny constitutional detail standing between Reddington and his dream of presidential intervention.

Clancy was charged under Massachusetts state law, not federal law.

Trump is president of the United States, not the governor of Massachusetts, emperor of New England, or the nation's all-purpose pardon dispenser.

The president's constitutional pardon power applies to federal offenses. It does not allow him to walk into a state criminal proceeding and announce, "You're free to go."

Even if Trump possessed the legal authority to pardon Clancy, there is another problem.

He has already condemned what happened. So if he flipped to her side, he would look like the main course at a Waffle House.

In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump described the killings as a “horrible tragedy” and indicated that he expected Clancy to face another trial.

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible tragedy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse.”

That's probably not the sort of presidential endorsement Reddington was hoping for. But my guess is that he wants to put the president in a precarious position, which he has no right to do.

In January 2023, Clancy took her three young children into the basement of their Duxbury home and strangled them one by one with exercise bands.

The defense does not dispute that she killed the children. Instead, Reddington has argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore was not criminally responsible for her actions. Unfortunately, her act and the publicity it has garnered has resulted in several copycat acts by other mothers.

That argument was apparently enough to leave a jury hopelessly divided after 38 hours of deliberation.

Trump said the case had been difficult to escape because of the enormous amount of television coverage surrounding it. He also predicted that Clancy would face consequences, whether that meant confinement in a psychiatric institution or prison. In my humble opinion, Trump should have completely stayed out of it altogether.

“There’ll be a price,” Trump said, adding that he believes prosecutors would bring the case to trial again and calling that scenario “too bad.”

Meanwhile, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday after the jury, consisting of nine women and three men, failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

“With a heavy heart, we report we cannot come to a unanimous decision,” the jurors wrote in their final note to the judge.

The most serious charges were three counts of first-degree murder, each carrying a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

For now, Clancy is expected to remain at Tewksbury State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital.

Reddington claimed he believed the jury was split 11-1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. He seemed to implicate one of the three men on the jury which has led to several tons of controversy as the country has taken sides. The Left wants to excuse Clancy and the Right wants something called justice to be served. 

Unfortunately for anyone hoping to turn that into a definitive legal fact, the actual vote remains unknown.

As of Tuesday, Reddington said he had not spoken with any jurors, and none had given media interviews.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Friday that his office remains committed to seeking justice for the three children, although he stopped short of announcing whether prosecutors would retry the case. 

Does anyone have bets that Clancy will roll free?

“Our priority has always been to fight for Cora, for Dawson, and for Callan. The noise in this case may be louder than it is for other prosecutions in our county, but we have treated it the same as any other case,” Cruz said. “Children were murdered, and it’s our job to seek justice.”

That would seem like a fairly straightforward mission statement.

Three children were murdered.

The government is supposed to seek justice.

The defense attorney, naturally, has a different vision.

Reddington said he remains optimistic that he can negotiate some sort of deal that would prevent Clancy from facing another trial. He described her almost like a member of his own family, calling her a daughter and an “incredible person” with whom he shares a “strong bond.” [Imagine if your own daughter murdered your grandchildren.]

“I’m willing to listen to Tim [Cruz]. I’ve known Tim for 30 years. He’s a very high-charging prosecutor, conservative gentleman,” Reddington told ABC. “I hope, however, after sitting through this trial and seeing the evidence that was presented from the government as well as from the defense, that he would revisit that issue and hopefully would be able to work something out that would be acceptable to both sides.”

There is, of course, nothing wrong with a defense attorney doing his job. That job is to advocate for his client.

But asking the president to pardon someone convicted, or potentially convicted, of a state crime is roughly like asking the fire department to issue you a driver's license.

And perhaps that's the most fitting conclusion to this bizarre chapter.

Three children are dead.

A jury could not agree.

A retrial may be coming, as I believe it should. 

A defense attorney wants a deal.

And somewhere along the way, somebody apparently decided the Constitution was an inconvenient barrier. 

I'd be happy to know what you guys think, so feel free to comment.

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Illinois Mother Charged With Murder After Becoming “Very Invested” in Lindsay Clancy Case

There are true-crime stories, and then there are stories so horrifying that even true crime seems at a loss for words.

Prosecutors say Corie A. Walsh had recently become “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy case before allegedly killing her 2-year-old son and attempting to take her own life. Authorities also say Walsh had made statements about harming her other children and her husband.

She's a real peach . . . allegedly. 

Walsh, 40, has now been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and remains in custody “and being held for medical treatment.”

The disturbing case unfolded in Frankfort, Illinois, an affluent suburban community about 35 miles southwest of Chicago. What should have been an ordinary Tuesday quickly turned into every parent's worst nightmare.

Police responding to the Walsh home shortly after 4 p.m. found the family's 2-year-old son, Barrett Walsh, hanging in the basement. A neighbor had discovered the child, removed him and desperately attempted CPR while calling 911.

But it was already too late.

The toddler was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Will County Coroner’s Office ruled the death an apparent homicide. Preliminary autopsy findings determined that the child died from asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck, according to prosecutors.

Walsh was found upstairs in the master-bedroom bathroom, fully dressed and lying in a bathtub “surrounded by bloody water.” She had cuts on her wrists and thighs and was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. 

And then came an explanation that sounds less like something from a courtroom filing and more like a particularly disturbing horror movie script.

Walsh allegedly told officers “she did this to her baby because he was the ‘devil’ and the ‘anti-Christ.’”

According to prosecutors, a neighbor found Walsh holding a knife and “actively harming herself.” The neighbor took the knife away and threw it into the sink, where police later recovered it as evidence.

Walsh reportedly asked why the neighbor had taken the knife, “as she was trying to kill herself.”

She then allegedly told the neighbor that “Bear,” the child's nickname, was “in the basement.”

Police have described the case as a domestic-related homicide.

But what makes the case even more disturbing is what prosecutors say happened in the hours leading up to the killing.

Walsh had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial,” prosecutors said in their petition seeking to deny her pretrial release.

Clancy, who killed her three children in January 2023, has become a national figure in one of the most disturbing criminal cases in recent memory. Her murder trial, which was being live-streamed, ended in a mistrial Friday. The Left seems to believe Clancy should not be punished for her crime, normal people disagree.

According to prosecutors, Walsh had been “actively discussing the case” with friends in group text messages until approximately 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

That was just three and a half hours before police arrived at her home.

At the time Walsh was allegedly discussing the Clancy case, the jury in that trial was deliberating.

That timeline is now one of the most disturbing elements of the investigation.

Walsh's husband was out of town when the killing occurred. An infant was also inside the home but was unharmed. Two school-age children returned home around the time Barrett was discovered and were likewise physically unharmed.

Unfortunately, prosecutors say the danger may not have ended with Barrett.

Walsh allegedly made statements about harming her other children and her husband when he returned home.

Once hospitalized, Walsh also described to officers “the manner in which she killed Barrett,” prosecutors said. Investigators say her account was consistent with the physical evidence discovered at the scene.

Walsh remains in custody while receiving medical treatment. Once she is released from the hospital, she is expected to be transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

It was not immediately clear whether she had retained an attorney.

Frankfort police described the case as a “heartbreaking tragedy,” adding, “We ask our community to keep them in their thoughts and prayers.”

And that is perhaps the only appropriate response to a case this horrific. Whatever bizarre chain of events led to the killing, an innocent 2-year-old boy is dead, a family has been shattered, and an entire community is left trying to comprehend something that should never have happened.

The boy was two years old, so this was not a case of postpartum psychosis.

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Another Mother Does The Unthinkable: Murders 2 of Her 3 Children, One Expected to Survive

A horrific case out of Mandan, North Dakota, is raising questions that should sound painfully familiar by now.

Twenty-two-year-old Kailey Erhart has been charged with murdering two of her children and attempting to murder a third. According to court documents, Erhart was captured on video holding a pistol and telling her husband, “Say goodbye to your kids,” before the unthinkable unfolded.

Police responding to the home found a scene that would haunt anyone for a lifetime. Officers say Erhart, covered in blood, was holding a knife to her own throat and demanding that police kill her. Inside the home, they found three children suffering from severe neck wounds. A 1-year-old survived after emergency surgery. A 5-month-old and a 3-year-old did not.

According to investigators, Erhart later told police she remembered placing the children on a bed after their throats had already been cut. She also reportedly said she could not remember everything that happened.

The details become even more troubling when viewed through the lens of what happened before the killings.

Court records indicate that Erhart's husband had previously contacted mental health services because she had threatened both herself and the children. She had recently been committed to a psychiatric facility and was taking medication. Despite those concerns, she had been cleared to be around her children.

That last fact should make every parent stop and think.

Whenever a tragedy like this occurs, we are immediately told that we need to have a serious conversation about mental health. Then the conversation usually lasts about fifteen minutes before everyone returns to arguing about politics on social media. Meanwhile, families are left trying to understand how someone with documented mental health struggles and prior threats against her children was nevertheless deemed safe enough to return home.

The case also arrives while Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy is standing trial for the deaths of her three children. Clancy admitted to killing the children before attempting suicide herself. Supporters have rallied around her defense, raising substantial sums of money and arguing that mental illness was the driving factor behind the murders.

The Clancy case has produced a strange cultural divide. When fathers commit acts of violence against their children, public sympathy tends to be scarce. When mothers do it, many activists immediately begin searching for systemic explanations, social failures, inadequate support networks, and medical complications.

Mental illness is real. Postpartum disorders are real. But so are dead children.

The difficult question is whether our institutions are actually getting better at identifying truly dangerous situations or whether they have become so afraid of making the wrong call that they routinely ignore glaring warning signs until it's too late.

In North Dakota, a father reportedly warned authorities. Mental health professionals were involved. Medication was prescribed. Hospitalization occurred. Yet two children are dead and another barely survived.

At some point, society has to ask whether the system's definition of "safe" bears any resemblance to reality.

Because for the families burying children, explanations offered after the fact are little comfort. The warnings existed before the tragedy. The intervention existed before the tragedy. The professionals were involved before the tragedy.

And still, the tragedy happened.

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Luigi Mangione Seeks Plea Deal, Apparently Discovering That Revolutionary Courage Has Its Limits

Luigi Mangione, the alleged cowardly assassin who became an unlikely folk hero for parts of the online left, is reportedly looking for a plea deal with federal prosecutors. 

Apparently, declaring war on capitalism from behind a gun is one thing. Facing the federal justice system is another.

Mangione, who is charged with the cowardly 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is reportedly in “serious negotiations” with federal prosecutors, according to a new report. An unexpected hearing has been scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. in Manhattan federal court, less than a month before his federal trial is scheduled to begin on September 8.

Mangione cowardly shoots Brian Thompson in the back, allegedly

According to TMZ, a potential deal could involve Mangione pleading guilty to murder in an open plea, leaving his sentence entirely up to the judge without a recommendation from prosecutors.

The federal case is going to be presided over by U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garrett, Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023, recommended by Sen. Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer (D-NY), and confirmed by the Senate on a largely party-line vote (49-46, with nearly all Democrats supporting and nearly all Republicans opposing).

the left's angry heart-throb 

Her professional background includes long service as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, roles in the New York State Attorney General’s office, and serving as New York City Department of Investigation commissioner. Federal judges are officially nonpartisan, but her appointment by a leftist vegetable of a president is the primary public indicator of association.

The state case is being presided over by Justice Gregory Carro, New York Supreme Court. He was appointed by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliana, a Republican.  

By having Judge Garnett presiding and deciding the sentence, it could give the cowardly Mangione an opportunity to present mitigating factors at sentencing, including his views about healthcare, corporate greed and whatever arguments his attorneys believe might explain how those grievances supposedly contributed to the killing.

In other words, the revolutionary who allegedly decided that society needed a violent dose of his personal ideology may now be hoping the court will consider his feelings before deciding how long he should spend in prison.

And based on how the left is adjudicating crime, he may get a medal of valor for the cowardly murder of Brian Thompson.

Such a deal could potentially result in a sentence of less than life in prison and could also raise double jeopardy issues in the state case. Mangione faces additional charges in New York and Pennsylvania. Judge Gregory Carro previously dismissed the defense's double jeopardy argument as premature.

The sudden hearing follows reports that plea negotiations took place in June before stalling. Mangione's top lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, accused federal prosecutors of attempting to “prejudice” public opinion against her client.

“This information attributed to ‘anonymous sources’ is part of a troubling, deliberate pattern by prosecutors and law enforcement to prejudice Luigi, manipulate public opinion, and violate his constitutional right to a fair trial and impartial jury. Every defendant in America is presumed innocent until proven guilty, including Luigi, who has to fight the same charges twice.”

Of course, every defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. That is precisely why civilized societies have courts, judges and juries instead of allowing angry political ideologues to decide who deserves to live or die.

Brian Thompson's family

Mangione's case has nevertheless attracted an unusual amount of attention, particularly from people who appear to regard an alleged murderer as a symbol of resistance against corporate America.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled that jurors in the trial will remain anonymous because of concerns about intimidation and harassment involving witnesses and jurors. The judge also approved an overflow room for media and spectators, with both audio and video permitted.

More than 80 news organizations are expected to attend if the trial proceeds as scheduled.

For now, the alleged revolutionary has apparently reached the stage of his grand crusade where lawyers, judges and sentencing guidelines matter quite a bit.

The man who allegedly wanted to send a message to corporate America may soon be sending one to the judge instead: Please, sir, may I have less than life?

What a coward. Do you agree?

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Charlotte Man Charged with Killing Man Hours After Release on Bond

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A convicted killer allegedly shot two men, killing one, less than two hours after he was released from a North Carolina jail on bond last week. 

This stunning timeline raises fresh questions about why the repeat violent offender was free in the first place. 

David Simpson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a felon in the July 29 shooting at an east Charlotte apartment complex. A Mecklenburg County judge on Friday ordered that he be held without bond . . . this time.

Court records obtained by WCNC (AM): A radio station on 1240 AM licensed to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, show Simpson was set free from the Mecklenburg County Jail at 12:20 a.m. after posting a $10,000 bond [probably at 10% cash] on an unrelated charge of possession of a weapon by a prisoner. Police said the shooting happened less than two hours later, around 1:45 a.m., leaving one man dead and another seriously wounded. 

Police said the shooting followed a long-running dispute over a parking space outside the apartment complex. Cops had already been called to the property twice that night after arguments broke out between the victims and residents over where they had parked. Surveillance video cited in the documents appears to show Simpson outside with his "shorty" when the victims' SUV drove past. Detectives said Simpson went inside, returned carrying what they described as a weighted black bag, and ran toward the victims. 

About 10 minutes later, problem solved, as two gunshots can be heard on the video. Roughly 30 seconds after that, Simpson is seen running back toward his apartment while handling the bag before driving away, investigators said. 

Officers recovered two spent 7.62-caliber rifle casings at the scene, where one victim had died. The second victim made it inside an apartment before collapsing and later underwent life saving surgery. 

Court records show Simpson was previously charged with first-degree murder in a 2013 fatal shooting but pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2015, Queen City News reported. He served merely five years in prison before being released on parole in 2020. 

Since then, he has been arrested several more times, including on multiple charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, WBTV reported. He also had pending charges this year for possession of a firearm by a felon, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor larceny, WCNC reported, citing court records. 

Charlotte defense attorney Tim Cannady, who is not involved in the case, questioned why Simpson remained free despite his violent history. "If you look at his history, it seems like this gentleman has picked up just about every year up to this point some kind of a violent crime," Cannady told WCNC. "So you kind of have to ask the question: Why wasn't he already in jail?" 

Former Charlotte City Council member Tariq Bokhari offered a similar criticism. "We know what these top 1% of repeat offenders are going to do, and for some reason, we just don't have the appetite to take action," Bokhari told WBTV. "It feels like 'Groundhog Day,' to be quite honest." 

Simpson refused to leave his jail cell for his first scheduled court appearance Friday morning, delaying the hearing until a judge ordered him to appear later that afternoon. His girlfriend, Shakema Scott, has also been charged with accessory after the fact. Simpson is due back in court on Aug. 21.

This is what happens when the revolving door of soft justice keeps spinning. A man with a lengthy rap sheet of violence walks free on a modest bond, and within two hours another life is lost over a parking space. The pattern is familiar, the excuses predictable, and the body count keeps climbing while the system pretends surprise.

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Bryan Kohberger Demands Do-Over After Pleading Guilty to Butchering Four Idaho Students

Convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger, who last year admitted to slaughtering four University of Idaho students in cold blood, now wants to yank his guilty plea and demand a shiny new trial, according to The New York Times. 

Kohberger, already locked up for life without parole, issued a statement from his Idaho prison cell to the paper. "My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” the murdering scumcrumpet said. 

The weird-eyed admitted killer now doubled down on an “absolute claim of innocence.” In July 2025, this aspiring criminologist pleaded guilty to murdering 21-year-olds Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin inside their off-campus rental home back in November 2022. 

Pretrial evidence piled up like unpaid student loans. 

Cops found his DNA on the sheath of the murder knife, the very same knife he ordered off Amazon months earlier. His car matched the one captured on surveillance circling the crime scene like a hungry vulture. No motive or personal link to the victims ever turned up, yet prosecutors still cut him a deal: skip the death penalty if he confessed and waved goodbye to any appeals. 

Kohberger refused to address the mountain of evidence against him, insisting the whole mess would be handled "appropriately in a trial setting." He also told the Times he drafted the challenge documents all by himself, noting that plenty of his defense lawyers recalled how he always griped about the plea deal and the evidence. 

"Unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of discovery unsealed," Kohberger said in his statement. Apparently, he doesn't like the idea of living in prison for the rest of his life, and his biggest worry is what might happen to him if he drops the soap in the shower.

Steve Goncalves, father of murdered Kaylee Goncalves, declined comment, saying he first needed to talk it over with his family. Smart move when the man who butchered your daughter suddenly rediscovers his "truth."

After more than a month with zero suspects, Pennsylvania state police and the FBI finally nabbed Kohberger in a dawn raid at his parents’ home near the Poconos. At the time he was a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. 

Former professors and classmates described him as "obsessed" with serial killers, criminal behavior, and the psychology of antisocial types during his classes. 

If anything is true here, it's that Kohberger is an “expert on crime” because he committed one, a really big one.

Legal experts note that convicts usually get one year from judgment to attack a conviction over major constitutional defects or incompetent counsel. Whether this late-blooming innocence claim earns him a second shot remains anybody’s guess.

It's possible, if he gets a new trial and is convicted, that he gets the death sentence, proving justice moves in mysterious ways.

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Joshua Kerry Charged With Brutally Murdering Ann Widdecombe; Leftists Already Blaming Society Instead Of The Monster Who Did It

"If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death." Immanuel Kant [The Metaphysics of Morals, 1797]

British prosecutors charged a leftist cretin, Joshua Kerry, 28, with the murder of ex-politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe. I don't often write about UK news, but this one is no different than the incidents we are seeing in the United States and all over Western nations.

"We have charged Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old British national, of Burley Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire," officials announced after the former lift company [they call elevators 'lifts' in merry old England] worker drove more than 260 miles to the elderly conservative icon's home in Devon, drooling into his crotch the entire journey.

Court details revealed Kerry allegedly arrived in a red Vauxhall Corsa on July 8 and proceeded to attack Widdecombe while she ate lunch. Prosecutors told the court she was hit on the head repeatedly with a hammer, with reports specifying as many as 21 strikes.

The suspect, described as a white British national [which is incredibly more accurate in description than UK news describes Muslim perpetrators as "Asians"] living alone in a council house in Rotherham, was initially held on suspicion of murder before additional charges related to the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism were considered.

Counter-terrorism police confirmed the investigation into his motivations continues, but he is, after all, a leftist and we all know how violent they've become when people have different opinions.

The real outrage is not just the crime but the predictable circus that follows. Here is a man who apparently could not build a life worth living, so he chose to destroy one instead.

A 78-year-old woman, a former government minister known for her unapologetic conservative views and plain speaking, targeted in her own kitchen. Kerry did not debate her because he doesn't have the capacity to do so. He did not write a strongly worded letter because writing is for losers. Instead, he picked up a hammer and used it like a coward who had run out of arguments and ideas if he even ever had one of those things.

Progressive voices will no doubt rush to blame "toxic masculinity," "austerity," "Brexit trauma," or whatever flavor of societal excuse is trending this week in the UK. They will demand we "understand his pain" and "address root causes."

Meanwhile, the actual root cause sits in custody: a grown man who traveled across England specifically to cave in the skull of a defenseless grandmother because he could not handle the fact that she existed and disagreed with him.

Ann Widdecombe spent decades fighting for traditional values, exposing nonsense, and refusing to bow to the cultural mob. Joshua Kerry spent his time likely picking his nose while apparently plotting the perfect hammer-based solution to political disagreement. One built a career. The other destroyed a life and now faces the consequences.

Sadly, there is no death sentence in the UK as it has been totally abolished.

The quotes remain unchanged because the facts do not need softening. Kerry is charged with murder. The victim was hit repeatedly with a hammer as she ate lunch. No amount of hand-wringing about "mental health" or "systemic failures" erases the simple truth that one man chose evil and acted on it.May justice be swift.

And may the rest of the left stop pretending every act of barbarism is society's fault instead of the fault of the barbarian who committed it.

Woke/leftism, is a mental illness.


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BREAKING: Jury reached a verdict in the Karmelo Anthony murder trial

Anthony is now facing life in prison.

A Collin County, Texas jury on Tuesday found 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony guilty of murdering 17-year-old high school athlete Austin Metcalf, bringing an end to one of the most closely watched murder trials in the country.

Anthony, who was 17 at the time of the killing, was tried as an adult. He now faces anywhere from five years to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder.

Just before the verdict was read, CBS reporter J.D. Miles noted that more than two dozen deputies had been stationed outside the courtroom as tensions mounted. A crowd gathered outside the courthouse chanting, “Free Karmelo.”

The case exploded into the national spotlight after Anthony, who is black, fatally stabbed Metcalf, who was white, during a track event in Frisco, Texas in April 2025. The story gained traction not only because of the circumstances surrounding the killing, but because much of the corporate press seemed strangely uninterested in covering it. Had the racial dynamics been reversed, everyone knows the media cycle would have looked very different.

The trial itself moved quickly. Jury selection began June 1 and the proceedings wrapped in just nine days. Throughout the trial, prosecutors presented video footage and witness testimony showing Anthony initiated the confrontation with Metcalf and that deadly force was not justified. Even testimony from defense witnesses undercut the self-defense narrative pushed by Anthony’s legal team.

Anthony notably declined to testify in his own defense.

The racial narrative promoted by Anthony’s family also fell apart once witnesses took the stand. Several black teenage witnesses called by the prosecution testified that Anthony was in the wrong and described Metcalf as a respected friend and leader.

One of the most emotional moments came when a young male witness who knew both teens broke down in tears while describing the killing.

“That was my brother, that was my brother that got stabbed,” he said.

Investigative journalist Sarah Fields, who attended the trial, reported that the witness was directly asked whether the case was about race.

“No,” the teen responded. “Austin was a leader and he protected us.”

Video evidence further dismantled claims that Anthony had been cornered or threatened by a mob. Footage showed Metcalf confronting Anthony alone. According to witness testimony, Metcalf explicitly told Anthony he was not going to fight him.

Meanwhile, supporters of Anthony have maintained a presence outside the courthouse since the start of the trial, with some making inflammatory racial remarks and publicly attacking the victim. Authorities increased security around the courthouse early Tuesday morning amid concerns about possible unrest following the verdict.

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REPORT: Mohammed Odeh, responsible for the 10/7 murder, kidnapping, and injury of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers dead

Israel announced on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces had carried out a strike in Gaza targeting Mohammed Odeh, [the surname 'h' is pronounced as an 'r'] whom officials identified as the new leader of Hamas’s military wing and a senior figure involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.

An Israeli official told Kan News that Odeh was killed in the strike, though his death has not yet been officially confirmed.

In a joint statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that the operation had been conducted under their direction and had targeted Odeh, “one of the architects of the Oct. 7 massacre.”

According to the statement, Odeh had served as head of Hamas intelligence staff during the October 7 attack and had been appointed only about a week earlier to replace Izz al-Din al-Haddad.

Odeh “was responsible for the murder, abduction, and injury of many Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the statement said.

Israeli officials reported that al-Haddad himself had been killed in an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip some two weeks earlier. Al-Haddad had been the head of Hamas’s military wing, one of the central planners behind numerous terror attacks, and among the last remaining senior figures involved in orchestrating the October 7 massacre. He had belonged to Hamas for roughly three decades and was regarded by Israel as a major threat to both civilians and soldiers alike.

Netanyahu and Katz praised the Israeli military and security services for the precision of the strike.

“Congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet for their ongoing efforts to eliminate our enemies,” the statement said, repeating Israel’s solemn pledge to continue targeting those connected to October 7.

“We will continue to pursue everyone who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre. Sooner or later, Israel will reach all of them,” the statement said.

The announcement identified Odeh as merely the latest senior Hamas figure to assume a leadership role in the group’s military wing, only to meet the same fate as his predecessors following recent Israeli operations in Gaza. In this grim but necessary accounting, the architects of that day of slaughter find no refuge.

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IDF captures Palestinian who murdered his son, burned his body, and infiltrated Israel

A Palestinian man suspected of murdering his 12-year-old son and burning his body was found in Israel after infiltrating the country, the IDF said on Sunday.

According to Palestinian sources that spoke with KAN News, the man had taken his son to the Palestinian village of Beit Ur, near Ramallah in the West Bank, and stabbed him near an agricultural area of the town.

He then burned the body, fled the scene, and infiltrated Israel near the Hashmo Bnaim checkpoint, evading the Palestinian Authority security forces in the process.

The PA contacted the IDF after being unable to locate the man. The military found him inside Israel near the checkpoint to leave the West Bank.

The IDF interrogated the suspect and then handed him over to the PA.

"IDF forces operating last night at the Hashmonaim checkpoint in the Central Command detained a Palestinian suspect for questioning. Initial questioning at the checkpoint revealed that the suspect murdered his son in the Ramallah area and fled the scene," the military statement read.

Last week, the military and the Israel Police announced that they had arrested and indicted seven members of the Hariri crime organization for extortion, threats, and the planting of explosive devices.

The filing of indictments and prosecutors’ statements followed a series of raids conducted in Arab villages and the West Bank on April 12, during which 11 suspects were arrested. Multiple vehicles and a large amount of cash were also seized during the raids.

The investigation and raids were the product of collaboration between multiple bodies, including the Israel Police, Border Police, dog squad units, and the IDF.

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Former Biden staffer charged with murdering his girlfriend

Either he's a complete fool, or it wasn't an accident.

A former staffer to former alleged President Joe Biden shot and killed his girlfriend on March 24 in San Francisco. He was arrested the following day. Police arrived around 10:45 pm to discover that Samantha Emge, 22, was suffering from a gunshot wound. She died at the hospital. 

Nation Wood, 25, claims he was dry-firing a firearm, which led to the shooting. He has been charged with involuntary manslaughter (via Fox KTVU):

KTVU has learned that the man charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his girlfriend in San Francisco's Sunset District last week told police he was "dry-firing" a gun that went off and shot her while she was showering.

The suspect, Nation Wood, 25, is out on bail after San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged him in the March 24 shooting at 22nd Avenue and Santiago Street. A Superior Court judge set Wood's bail at $300,000. Wood pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday.Dry firing a gun is when you pull the trigger of an unloaded firearm. But in this case, the firearm was primed when Samantha Emge, 22, a recent San Francisco State University graduate, was shot and killed.

When the story of the shooting first broke, District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong, a mayoral appointee, had said the discharge of the gun may have been unintentional.

Emge had worked in interior design, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Wood, who had also studied at San Francisco State University, worked in security, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was scheduled to leave San Francisco soon to serve in the National Guard.

He is now out on bail.

A week after the fatal shooting of his 22-year-old girlfriend, Samantha Emge, at their San Francisco Sunset District home, 25-year-old Nation Wood was in court on Wednesday.

"He is on electronic monitoring. His family posted bail. No weapons consent to warrant search and work with pre-trial services. All that he is going to do," said Paula Canny, Wood's attorney.Emge's parents and Nation Wood's dad were present. Wood appeared on Zoom from a hospital mental health unit. His attorney said he was admitted after posting $300,000 bail and is currently under psychiatric evaluation.

"We don't want to further compound this horrible tragedy by him ending his own life, which is what I think he wants to do now," said Canny.

This seems like a tragic accident, but we need more details. Did he forget to check his firearm? Where the hell was he doing this dry-firing exercise? Even if Wood checked and knew it was unloaded, you should not point it in any direction where someone could get shot. 

This is firearm safety 101, which anyone who owns a firearm, or knows anything about firearm safety already knows. Always treat a firearm as if it's loaded. The fact that he dry-fired it and pointed it at his showering girlfriend is just too convenient an excuse. 

I don't believe him . . . do you?

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Venezuelan national busted after allegedly killing 18-year-old Chicago student

A 25-year-old Venezuelan national, Jose Medina-Medina ,who entered the United States illegally has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman. Gorman was reportedly walking with friends along the Tobey Prinz Beach pier, near campus, when a masked man opened fire, violently, and senselessly shooting her in the head. 

The young lady was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a statement to ABC7, Gorman’s family said that she had gone to the pier to look at the Northern Lights, emphasizing that “there was nothing reckless about her actions” at the time, suggesting further that this was a completely random attack.

“Sheridan was our daughter, our sister, and the heart of our family. She was full of life, full of kindness, and full of a love that she gave freely to everyone around her,” the family said in a statement.

Medina-Medina was arrested-arrested on Friday night and was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. This was delayed, however, as he has since been hospitalized for tuberculosis, according to prosecutors who spoke to the Chicago Tribune. At this point, no official motive has been identified for the crime.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer against Medina. The department noted that Medina had been released twice in 2023 under the Biden administration's policies, including a release following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago.

“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” said Lauren Bis, DHS acting assistant secretary, in the statement.

“We are calling on Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods,” she added.Responding to news of the arrest, the Gorman family issued a statement through ABC7, ultimately describing the tragedy as a “violent and preventable act.”

“We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime. When systems fail, whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act, the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.”

“This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention. Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten,” they continued.

Miss Gorman was an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University Chicago, though originally from Yorktown, New York. A business major and active member of the Christian campus organization Cru, she was described by friends and family as a compassionate, joyful, and kind person who was deeply involved in her campus community despite only being in her first year. 

The fatal incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. at the Tobey Prinz Beach pier in Rogers Park while Gorman was walking with a group of friends, having gone to the lakefront specifically to try to view the Northern Lights. According to investigators, the masked man approached the group from behind a lighthouse and opened fire as they attempted to flee. Gorman was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported among her friends.

A memorial and scholarship fund are being established in Gorman’s honor in her hometown of Yorktown.

This is the sort of story that should shame a nation. A young woman, full of promise and untouched by any recklessness or provocation, steps out on a clear night simply to witness a rare natural wonder, the Northern Lights dancing above Lake Michigan. In that innocent moment she is executed at point-blank range by a man who had no right to be in the country at all, a man released not once but twice by the very authorities charged with protecting American citizens.

The family’s grief is raw and dignified. They insist there was “nothing reckless about her actions,” as if even the faintest suggestion of fault must be extinguished before it can be whispered. They are right to do so. For this was not a tragic encounter between rival gang members or the unhappy result of some personal dispute. It was, by every available account, a random slaughter, the sort that occurs when the state has decided that its own laws on entry and removal are optional, when sanctuary policies matter more than the safety of its own people, and when the consequences of those decisions are borne not by politicians in their guarded offices but by freshmen walking along a pier.

Consider the sequence. The killer, a Venezuelan an illegal alien, had already been arrested for shoplifting in Chicago. Under the policies of the Biden administration he was released. Later he was encountered again and released once more. 

Now an American teenager lies dead, her skull shattered by his bullet, while he sits in hospital with tuberculosis, the court appearance postponed. The Department of Homeland Security has at last lodged a detainer, as though such paperwork could resurrect the dead or undo the years of deliberate negligence that placed the murderer on that pier in the first place.

The family sees it clearly. “We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime,” they say. “When systems fail, whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act, the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent.”

There is a terrible eloquence in those words. Permanent. That is what open-border ideology and sanctuary-city dogma have delivered to Sheridan Gorman and her family: a permanent absence, a life cut short at eighteen, a future of studies and friendships and quiet Christian witness erased in a single act of casual savagery.

Politicians will speak of  “comprehensive reform” and “root causes” in the days ahead, as they always do. They will treat this as one more data point in an argument rather than as the human catastrophe it is. But the family will not let it fade. “This cannot be just another case that fades from public attention,” they declare. “Sheridan’s life mattered. What happened to her matters. And we will make sure she is not forgotten.”

They should not have to fight alone for that remembrance. The rest of us, those still fortunate enough to live under laws that are actually enforced, have a duty to ensure that Sheridan Gorman is not remembered merely as another statistic in the long ledger of migrant crime, but as the precise and foreseeable cost of a governing philosophy that values ideological purity over the elementary obligation to keep citizens safe in their own streets and on their own shores. 

A scholarship and a memorial in Yorktown will be established, small consolations for an irreparable loss. Yet the true memorial must be larger: a national reckoning with the reality that when a country stops controlling its borders, it stops controlling its fate, and the first to pay are the young, the innocent, and the hopeful, walking out one autumn night to see the lights in the sky.

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Judge rules on defense's attempt to disqualify prosecutors in Charlie Kirk murder case

In the Fourth District Court in Provo, Utah, Judge Tony Graf presided over yet another hearing in the grim aftermath of what can only be described as a political assassination. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk, appeared remotely from his jail cell on September 16, 2025, a detail that underscores the gravity and the spectacle of the proceedings.

A Utah judge has now firmly rejected the defense's attempt to disqualify the prosecutors in the case against Tyler Robinson, the young man charged with the killing of Charlie Kirk.

On Tuesday, having considered the arguments aired at a hearing on February 3, Judge Tony Graf ruled decisively for the prosecution. He stated that the court was unpersuaded that a prosecutor’s relationship with his daughter, who had been present at the event, had improperly influenced the decision to pursue the death penalty against Robinson.

The defense had pressed their case with considerable vigor. They insisted that because Chad Grunander's daughter had attended the Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, the very scene where Kirk was fatally shot, the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office ought to be removed from the prosecution. This familial connection, they maintained, created at least the appearance of impropriety, and that alone was sufficient to warrant disqualifying the whole office from the matter.

The county attorney’s office countered with clarity and restraint. Neither the office nor the deputy attorney in question labored under any conflict of interest, they argued, because AC (the adult child present at the college event) “did not see Charlie get shot” and “did not see anyone [in the crowd or elsewhere] with a gun.” Moreover, “nearly everything [AC] knows about the actual homicide is hearsay,” according to filings submitted by the office.

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Robinson’s preliminary hearing is now set to commence on May 18 and is anticipated to span three days. Only upon its conclusion will he face arraignment, and he has yet to enter a plea.One cannot help but observe the deeper irony here. In an age when political violence has become a grotesque currency, the attempt to recuse an entire prosecutorial office on grounds so tenuous speaks volumes about the lengths to which some will go to muddy the waters of justice. Yet the judge, in his measured ruling, has reminded us that the rule of law demands more than mere appearances or speculative bias; it requires actual evidence of impropriety. The prosecution may proceed, and the grim business of determining guilt in this assassination will continue unimpeded.

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