Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Byron Griffy, 76, was found shot inside his Fowler, Colo. farmhouse on Oct. 12, 2012 with no signs of forced entryFellow morticians Anthony Wright and Charles Giebler were later tied to the case — and were outed to the community at large as romantic partners in the subsequent investigationGriffy had recently handed the pair tens of thousands of dollars in cash and coins amid fallout from a 2012 sex assault conviction A quiet farming town was upended when a beloved mortician turned up shot inside his home — a killing later bound to secret romantic ties and…

A judge’s determination last week that Delaware’s permit-to-purchase law is constitutional and can take effect has raised the ire of many within the gun-rights community, including the leader of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). Delaware passed the permit-to-purchase scheme back in 2024, requiring citizens to first obtain a “handgun qualified purchaser permit” from the State Bureau of Identification before they can purchase a handgun. That means an eight-hour training class, live-fire qualification (about 100 rounds), fingerprinting and a state and federal background check before they ever get to the gun retail counter. The National Rifle Association quickly filed a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Many of the hundreds of children kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria were as young as 5 years old, according to a nun who also described how 50 of the students escaped over the weekend.Mary Barron, the Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA), described many of the 303 children kidnapped from St. Mary’s School in Nigeria’s Papiri community on Friday as “tiny,” the BBC reported.”In this part of the world where there’s no education available, people send their children to boarding school from…

NEED TO KNOW Vice President Nelson Rockefeller’s son, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared in New Guinea in November 1961Rockefeller’s boat capsized while on an excursion, and he decided to try to swim to shoreThe anthropology enthusiast was never seen again, and many believe that he either drowned or was killed Michael Rockefeller went missing over 60 years ago, and his body has never been found. The son of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and an heir to the Rockefeller fortune, the 23-year-old Harvard graduate was on an expedition to New Guinea when he disappeared. A lifelong lover of art, Rockefeller had joined a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Violent crime in Charlotte, North Carolina, has ignited a political storm, with Republican lawmakers pointing to the city’s rising homicide rate as evidence that Mayor Vi Lyles’ leadership has faltered.”When you are in charge of a city, it’s your job to put the best possible foot forward and create as best of a perception as you can. Now, that perception may or may not match reality. In the case of Charlotte, the perception does not match the reality,” Addul Ali, North Carolina District 12 GOP chairperson, told Fox News Digital.Recent federal immigration…

NEED TO KNOW Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times by her friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, in 2014Geyser and Weier both claimed that they were told to murder Leutner by the mythical horror figure, the Slender ManLeutner survived the attack and has gone on to attend high school and college to pursue a career in the medical field Payton Leutner was just 12 years old when she was brutally stabbed by her close friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. On May 31, 2014, Geyser and Weier lured Leutner into the woods in Waukesha, Wisc., and stabbed her 19 times.…

NEED TO KNOW Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo was taken into custody in April 2018During his interrogation, DeAngelo muttered that an alter ego named Jerry made him commit his crimesDeAngelo, who was caught via DNA testing and genetic genealogy, pleaded guilty to 13 murders and other crimes in June 2020 On April 24, 2018, Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo was taken into custody accused of a spate of killings and rapes that terrorized Californians in the 1970s and ’80s.   After his arrest — at his home in Citrus Heights, Calif. — DeAngelo, a former police officer and mechanic, was…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of a Texas college freshman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from allegations that fraternity hazing drove him into a mental health crisis that led him to take his own life.Sawyer Updike, an 18-year-old from Pearland, accepted a bid to pledge the Sigma Chi fraternity through the University of Texas at Austin’s Alpha Nu Chapter in August 2023, according to FOX 7. Throughout his time as a member of the chapter’s pledge class, Updike was allegedly subjected to months of “horrific hazing” that ultimately drove him to suicide, the lawsuit…

NEED TO KNOW Mohamud Bulle was convicted of raping Melissa Zimmerman in 2013, CBS Minnesota reportedThe case was solved when DNA from a 2024 attempted-murder probe matched her long-untested rape kit, according to the outletCourt documents obtained by PEOPLE said police initially closed the 2013 case after noting the victim did not want to proceed, an assertion that Zimmerman denied in court A Minneapolis, Minn., man will spend nearly 20 years in prison for raping a woman more than a decade ago — a crime solved when DNA from a newer case matched evidence collected years earlier. The Hennepin County…

NEED TO KNOW The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death of a 22-year-old singer who was shot and killed during a reported ambushAuthorities have identified the victim as singer Maria De La Rosa, who released music under the name DELAROSAPolice have not shared a motive or made any arrests, but are investigating the crime A 22-year-old woman was shot and killed during a reported “ambush” style murder.  Singer Maria De La Rosa, who released music under the name DELAROSA, was identified as one of three victims involved in the fatal incident, which occurred on Saturday, Nov. 22, the…