Killings

• Broderick zat een levenslange straf uit in Californië voor de moorden en werd vorige maand overgeplaatst naar een medisch centrum. • Betty Broderick, die berucht werd door de moorden op haar ex-man en zijn nieuwe vrouw in 1989 — een zaak die het land schokte en inspireerde tot films en boeken — is overleden op 78-jarige leeftijd terwijl zij nog haar levenslange straf uitzat. • Vertegenwoordigers van de California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation bevestigden aan NBC News dat Elizabeth A. Broderick op 18 april werd overgeplaatst van de Californische gevangenis naar een medisch centrum. Zij overleed de daaropvolgende vrijdag.

Stanley Burkhardt, convicted abuser and ex-investigator of sex crimes against children, gives deposition in civil caseConvicted child molester Stanley Burkhardt – a former investigator of sex crimes against children who has been in and out of prison for decades – invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more than 700 times while being questioned under oath recently, including when asked whether he committed a series of unsolved murders of youths in his orbit.Burkhardt’s decision to remain silent came when faced with questions about the killings during a deposition in a civil lawsuit by an alleged sexual abuse victim of his – a case aimed at him and the New Orleans police department (NOPD) which used to employ him. Continue reading...

Without offering details or evidence, US Southern Command described the people killed as ‘narco-terrorists’The US military said on Tuesday it struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people, in the latest such attack that rights groups label as “extrajudicial killings” and Washington describes as targeting “narco-terrorists”.US Southern Command posted about the strike on social media Tuesday evening, alleging that the vessel struck on Tuesday was operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” that it did not identify. Continue reading...