The Slender Man Killings
Two Wisconsin girls (both age 12) were arrested in June 2014 for attempted murder. Both girls lured another girl...
Category: Crime
Diamond Smuggling, Nigeria’s 419 Scam and South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Organized Crime Problem
The next time you check your spam folder and see a stack of emails promising you the “kind grace...
Protesters Alert: I’m Getting Arrested App for Android
In the wake of the sickening violence in Oakland, protesters may worry they run the risk of a hell...
Deadly Russian Drug “Krokodil” Hits Germany’s Streets
It might sound like a William Gibson invention, but the street drug “Krokodil” just a toxic substance made from...
The Coming of the Bath Salts Zombies
I’m painfully aware that I’m at risk of becoming the blogosphere’s chief proponent for the re-legalization of bath salts,...
The .45 Liberator Replica: A Pricey Piece of Budget History
In the 1940s, the United States military developed an ultra-cheap, ultra-simple single-shot .45 handgun stamped out of sheet metal....