interview
Interviews with defense attorneys, law enforcement officials, forensic psychologists and anyone with insight into bad behavior.
The War Between the Cactus
PART ONE To first see the U.S.-Tijuana border is somewhat akin to stepping into the pages of Dante’s Inferno. It is a hellscape with a pulse, a sentient being that throbs with the immutable power of the human will each and every night in a twenty-five or so square mile microcosm between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Ojai Mountains to the east. Mobs of shadowy bodies, crouching and creeping in the night like chickens, such that they are called the Spanish name pollo, traverse the tennis-shoe hardened trails that weave in and out of the border canyons, some with sinister names like Smuggler’s Gulch, or ridiculous ones like Arnie’s Point where a border patrol agent by the same name absorbed a Mexican bullet in his ass cheek, or the Apple Turnover where a certain agent Apple rolled his SUV down ass over tea kettle a rock slide. Silver-tipped cholla cactus loom like wayward chessmen, ready to insert their fanged tubercles in the tender flesh of any fleeing corpus.. Barrel cacti lurk underfoot, and their steel ribs and fierce spines will slice right through a combat boot to skewer a whole foot. The air is heavy with the acrid smell of wild anise and burning tires, and you can’t see shit because this is a darkness you have never before experienced.. Even once you have developed the night eyes of a patrol agent, you will still hallucinate imaginary Mexicans floating past in the inky air. The skeletal remains of smugglers’ cars litter the canyons like abandoned shipwrecks,, crashed headlong into gullies, and the eight-foot landing strip that separates the countries stands ready to snag a ringed finger and filet it to the bone.. There are no cameras in canyons, just gold badges glinting in the moonlight, sensors buried in the dirt, byzantine footpaths, and the faint waft of Tijuana River stench polluting the Pacific sea air. It is here that the United States Border Patrol of the San Diego sector calls its office where the nightly ballet between hunters and hunted has been methodically playing itself out for as far back as the turn of the last century.
By L. Erin Giangiacomo3 years ago in Criminal
Who was Jack the Ripper? The legend of the most famous criminal in history
1888: Queen Victoria's England is at the height of its power. London had become the first capital of the world. But alongside the columned white marble facades of Mayfair and Kensington, the sordid slums of the East End, Whitechapel, and Spitalfield suburbs persist.
By Viorel Secareanu3 years ago in Criminal
A Voice From Prison
A Voice From Prison is a nonprofit advocating for criminal justice reform and constitutional rights. Tyler King formed the organization from inside the prison walls but soon expanded outwards to involve the entire community by raising awareness of what it means to administer justice in the United States. Tyler King has become an activist for constitutional rights and criminal justice reform. Previous military, Ivy-League educated (in law and criminal justice, as well as business), he shares his views and the truths from the other side.
By Meg Corrieri3 years ago in Criminal
What Happened To Logan Mwangi?
For a more detailed breakdown, you can watch my video on YouTube here: Logan Mwangi was a 5-year-old boy who lived with his mother, Angharad Williamson (31) his stepfather, John Cole (40) and eventually his older stepbrother, Craig Mulligan (14). In every photograph of Logan, he is a smiley, cheery curly haired little boy who seemed well loved. However, behind the photos he was found in a cruel and dark situation.
By YesItsMocha3 years ago in Criminal
The world's most mindless robber
1. A robber disguised himself as a tree to rob a bank Manchester, N.H. A MIDDLE-AGED MAN DISGUISED HIMSELF AS A TREE AND ROBBED a BANK ON July 7, 2007 IN a BIZARRE ROBBERY. The smell left by the leaves later led police to the arrest of the man.
By Na Dunshie3 years ago in Criminal
The Free-Walking Cannibal With Plans to Eat People Once More
Issei Sagawa had been planning to kill, mutilate, and devour Renée Hartevelt for 32 years when he finally did it in 1981. Sagawa was a student of comparative literature in Paris at the time of his crime. He was promptly taken into custody and given a psychiatric institution term. He was able to check himself out of a separate psychiatric institution after his extradition to Japan, however, because to a legal loophole, and he is still free today.
By Victoria Velkova3 years ago in Criminal
