k0710 The city of Boston held its breath for nearly two decades, haunted by the specter of a killer who seemed to vanish into thin air after terrorizing women from the Back Bay to the North Shore, and even now, more than forty years after his death, the truth behind Albert DeSalvo’s chilling confession remains one … Read more
The impossible murder of Albert DeSalvo inside the supposedly impenetrable walls of Walpole State Prison has shattered the fundamental promise of maximum security corrections, leaving investigators grappling with a killing that defies every protocol designed to prevent it. Locked doors, strict protocols, and the unyielding security of a maximum security prison were supposed to make … Read more
OSSINING, N. Y. — The low hum rolled through the death house just after midnight, a sound every condemned man at Sing Sing had learned to dread. Sparks cracked behind the walls. The electric chair was being tested. Everyone knew what it meant. Albert Fish had 24 hours to live, and the governor had just … Read more
The clock struck 6 p. m. inside the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, and for Betty Lou Beets, the final 24 hours of a 59-year life had begun. The routine inside death row continued, but the atmosphere had shifted irreversibly. Her attorney would later describe her as profoundly scared, afraid of what was coming, … Read more
The automotive world has a new Cinderella story, and it involves a clapped-out Japanese sports car, a budget of just $3,400, and a crew of mechanics determined to resurrect a legend from the brink of the scrap heap. In a saga that blends equal parts risk, mechanical know-how, and sheer automotive enthusiasm, one dedicated team … Read more
Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner, in 2004. Scott Peterson has always maintained that he isn’t guilty of the 2002 murders — and he has a staunch supporter in his family. During the past two decades, a period in which Scott Peterson’s death sentence was … Read more
The clock was already ticking when Governor Jeb Bush made up his mind. Clemency denied. No reason to intervene. Thomas Harrison Provenzano would die that evening at Florida State Prison in Starke, and nothing his family said or did was going to change that. His sister Katherine had begged. In an open letter published that … Read more
Just after eight o’clock tonight, the state of Ohio carried out its first execution of a woman in history, sending convicted serial killer Anna Marie Hahn to the electric chair at Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus. The 32-year-old, described as small and blond, was strapped into the chair as a room full of silent witnesses … Read more
The final hours of Thomas J. Grasso unfolded with the quiet precision of a man who had long ago stopped fighting the clock, trading legal battles for television listings and a final meal he would describe, in his last public words, as incomplete. At 5:58 p. m. on March 19, 1995, inside the H unit … Read more
A rust-caked, engine-less Nissan S15 Silvia that had sat abandoned for 15 years has been dragged back from the dead in a marathon garage session that pushed a four-man crew to the brink of exhaustion and came within striking distance of a jaw-dropping 24-hour turnaround. The iconic Japanese drift machine, arguably the most desirable JDM … Read more