Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Brittany Locklear was taken from her bus stop in Hoke County, N.C., in 1998Her body was found the next day in a drainage ditch three miles awayPolice believe her killer drove a full-size pickup truck On the morning of January 7, 1998, Brittany Locklear, 5, waited for the school bus outside her house in rural Hoke County, N.C. The kindergartner who loved Pocahontas and going to McDonald’s never made it to school.  Authorities believe a man driving a brown pickup truck abducted her and then raped and killed her. After an extensive search, her body was found…

NEED TO KNOW The 2022 Lifetime movie The Suitcase Killer was based on the real-life murder of Bill McGuireHis wife, Melanie, was convicted of killing him and dismembering his body in 2004 While the film stays largely true to the case, several details were altered for dramatic effect The Suitcase Killer may have all the makings of an over-the-top Lifetime movie, but the case that inspired it was disturbingly real. In 2004, Bill McGuire’s partial remains were found among three suitcases that had been dumped into the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary bordered by Maryland and Virginia. His wife, a fertility…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Finneas O’Connell, a Grammy Award-winning producer and brother of Billie Eilish, blasted conservatives on social media over what he considered to be a hypocritical response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal agent.O’Connell told conservatives to “shut the f— up” three times in an Instagram reel shared Sunday to his nearly 5 million followers.His remarks followed the fatal shooting of Pretti, 37, by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis on Saturday. The incident marked the second fatal shooting involving a federal officer this month.JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM ‘DESTROYING…

NEED TO KNOW Amanda Knox was sentenced to years in an Italian prison for murdering her roommate in 2007Since her exoneration in March 2015, she has worked as a criminal justice advocate and welcomed two kids with her husband, Christopher RobinsonIn 2026, Robinson and Knox collaborated on a Hulu documentary titled Mouth of the Wolf, which chronicled her return to the city in Italy where she studied abroad Amanda Knox has accomplished a lot in the decade since she was exonerated of murder. Using the high-profile 2007 case — in which she and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of…

NEED TO KNOW A Hollywood biographer set out to dispel misconceptions about the woman known as the Black DahliaAccording to his new book, Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, Elizabeth Short was not an aspiring actress or promiscuous woman lurking in Hollywood’s shadows — but rather a curious young person who wanted to explore the worldShort’s macabre death overshadowed who she really was, William J. Mann writes Solving one of the most infamous unsolved murder cases of all time was not what Hollywood biographer and true crime writer William J. Mann intended when he set out to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California mother was arrested on felony child abuse charges after a viral video showed her 19-month-old child falling from a moving SUV at a busy Fullerton intersection, police said Monday.The Fullerton Police Department said it became aware of the video, which shows a black SUV turning at an intersection when a passenger-side door suddenly opens. A small child then falls out of the vehicle and onto the roadway.The SUV immediately stops, and a car following behind narrowly avoids colliding with it. The car stops just short of the child on the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former CIA operative says that a recent alleged “sham marriage” scandal involving U.S. Navy sailors marrying Chinese citizens exposes a “targeted” national security threat focused on a major U.S. Naval base, potentially opening the door to foreign spies.According to court documents, Jacinth Bailey and Morgan Chambers, both Navy sailors based in Jacksonville, Florida, were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud after they allegedly accepted thousands of dollars from Chinese nationals in order to enter sham marriages.Both Bailey and Chambers allegedly took part in a plot where American…

NEED TO KNOW A 35-year-old mother was arrested after her 19-month-old child flew out of the passenger seat of her vehicle and narrowly avoided being run overThe Fullerton Police Department identified the woman as Jacqueline Hernandez of La Habra, Calif.Police said the child is expected to make a full recovery A California woman has been arrested after video footage showed her infant flying from a moving vehicle and narrowly avoiding being run over by her SUV.  Jacqueline Hernandez, 35, of La Habra, was arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse after her 19-month-old fell “from the passenger side of a…

NEED TO KNOW A man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing an openly gay University of Mississippi student — a crime prosecutors claimed was committed to hide a romantic relationship between the twoThe sentencing comes after Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of 20-year-old Jimmie “Jay” LeeLee was last seen in July 2022 but his remains weren’t found until February 2025 A man will spend decades in prison for killing an openly gay University of Mississippi student, in what prosecutors claimed was an…

NEED TO KNOW Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot point-blank by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 24The day he was killed, his parents, Michael and Susan Pretti, said that they last spoke to their son a couple of days before his deathThe parents also issued a formal statement that day, saying, “We are heartbroken but also very angry” The parents of Alex Pretti shared insights into who their son was before he was shot by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Pretti was a 37-year-old ICU nurse who was shot point-blank…