Weird News
The Weird News topic gives corrections officers a place to get articles covering the bizarre, including strange crimes, wacky courtroom appearances, and oddball encounters COs have on a daily basis. The job is deadly serious, but there are dozens of moments in corrections that leave officers shaking their heads and laughing as they make their rounds.
The prisoner told others that he intended to “either eat or drink” his victim’s mutilated body parts after the murder
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, the writer of mysteries such as “The Wrong Husband,” was arrested on Sept. 5
When deputies called the man after he didn’t return, he answered the phone and told them where he was
Authorities in western New York say a 20-year-old man thought he was sleeping on his friend’s couch when state troopers woke him up
Man nearly made off with $100,000 but got stuck in an air duct and had to be cut out hours later
Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family’s basement laundry room
Police say a drug dealer mistakenly sent messages to a police officer in an attempt to sell methamphetamines
An officer has fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown expressway off-ramp
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who is serving life in prison for sending deadly mail bombs, bragged about his sentences
Man is in jail after he filmed himself revealing his name, showing his face and admitting he stole the video camera he was using at that moment
Gerald McNeal had taken a plastic toy gun away from his little brother and put it in his bookbag
Man is wanted in the stabbing death of his wife just after their wedding
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the 43-year-old was stopped for further inspection at the Nogales port Sunday after an officer noticed something peculiar about the cushion
A registered sex offender has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating a 12-year-old New York boy with a pool cue
In a jailhouse interview, Leslie Sandoval told reporters he remembers where he put the victim’s missing left foot
Obama received 59 percent of the vote to inmate Keith Judd’s 41 percent in a presidential primary
Man was arrested Sunday and sent to a hospital psychiatric ward for evaluation
A witness called police Monday evening after seeing a man and woman strap the kids to the car in a liquor store parking lot
The retired teacher told authorities she knew the helium kits were intended to be used to kill themselves but she said she thought they would be used by the terminally ill
Herman Ray Landers was booked into the Shawnee County Jail
The wolf dog hybrid named Chief will become a guard dog
Man claimed the firearm was a pellet gun
Jessalyn Stierwalt allegedly had two male acquaintances stab her so she could get out of going to a probation appointment
Cops saw the Facebook photos and arrested 20-year-old Michael Baker and charged him with theft by unlawful taking
Police were able to track down a suspected robber thanks to a ringing cellphone
Utica police tell local media outlets that Lawrence Deptola went into city bank Thursday afternoon and threatened a teller with the plunger
Michael Calvert was arrested at gunpoint by deputies while he lathered up in the shower
The judge says he finds it disrespectful and a disruption when people wear pants below their waistline in his chambers
Jessica Vega has been indicted on charges of fraud and grand larceny for getting her “dream wedding” by falsely claiming she was dying of leukemia
Man is suspected of trying to steal a shopping cart full of toothpaste from a western Massachusetts grocery store
Sergey Mamonov told police he beat his roommate to death during a fight and carved up his body