Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Colleen Stan was abducted 48 years ago while hitchhikingHer captors, Cameron and Janice Hooker, kept her in a box for seven years giving her kidnapping the moniker ‘Girl in the Box’Stan finally escaped and has gone on to tell her story The harrowing story of Colleen Stan’s “Girl in the Box” kidnapping captivated the country in the 1980s when she escaped and named her abductors, Cameron and Janice Hooker. On May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen was hitchhiking on the way from her Eugene, Ore., home to a friend’s birthday party when she was picked up by a…

It has been 20 years since Mary Kay Letourneau married her former student, Vili Fualaau, on May 20, 2005, less than a year after her release from prison. In 1997, it was revealed that Letourneau had raped one of her students, Fualaau, who was 12 years old at the time. “The incident was a late night, and it didn’t stop with a kiss,” Letourneau recounted in a 2015 sit-down interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20. “And I thought that it would, and it didn’t.” The story of Letourneau’s sexual abuse drew more than just the ire of the millions who…

FIRST ON FOX: In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital at the annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler responded to a Washington Post report that claimed President Donald Trump threatened to abandon Israel unless the war ended as “fake news.” “That sounds like fake news to me,” he said. “I think the president has maintained a very high degree of support for Israel.” He added, “He may be saying, ‘Hey, listen, let’s try to end the war,’ he might speak strongly, but I think American president, in particular, this president’s support, President…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to put the kibosh on President Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. military to accept a Boeing airplane from Qatar to be used as Air Force One.The Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit utilizing Defense Department funding to procure, modify, restore, or maintain an aircraft for presidential flight if that aircraft was previously owned by a foreign government, foreign government-controlled entity, or foreign government representative.”None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2025 or fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Defense may…

The parole hearing for the Menendez brothers has been rescheduled for August, according to California officials.Lyle and Erik Menendez are now scheduled to appear for their parole hearing on August 21 and 22, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to Fox News Digital.The hearing was originally set for June 13.MENENDEZ BROTHERS’ JUNE HEARING CONVERTED FROM CLEMENCY TO PAROLE AS DECISION LOOMS FOR GOV. NEWSOM Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the brothers’ clemency hearing was being converted into a parole hearing after the governor withdrew his request for a clemency investigation.While the…

NEED TO KNOW Elizabeth Chambers hosts the new Investigation Discovery series ToxicIn an interview with PEOPLE, Chambers shares the biggest red flags she learned from reporting on the cases covered in season 1Toxic is streaming on Max, and new episodes air Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery In the process of uncovering dangerously toxic relationships, Elizabeth Chambers has pinpointed the biggest red flags everyone should know about. As host of Toxic, the new true-crime docuseries from Investigation Discovery, Chambers, 42, goes back to her journalism roots to report on harrowing cases of domestic violence and the legal systems that…

A former FBI agent who spent 10 years hunting fugitives says employees of the Orleans Parish Jail almost certainly knew about and assisted the massive 10-person escape last Friday. Scott Duffey spent 22 years in the FBI, including a decade hunting fugitives, before retiring as a supervisory special agent. He is now the director of the Wilmington University Criminal Justice Institute in Delaware. He said it would be nearly impossible for 10 people to escape from a jail without help from the inside, or at least without people on the inside knowing about a planned escape. “If 10 people did it, that…

NEED TO KNOW Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk, England, found that a book on their office shelf was bound in the skin of William Corder, a 19th-century murdererMaria Marten’s remains were discovered nearly a year after she vanished, following a dream her stepmother had about her deathCorder confessed and was executed in front of a crowd of thousands It was a skin-crawling revelation. Staff at a museum in Suffolk, England, recently learned that an unassuming old book sitting in their office was actually made from human skin — believed to be that of a 19th-century murderer who was…

A retired Border Patrol chief tapped to advise on immigration issues related to unaccompanied minors and refugees for the Trump administration’s first 100 days said about 70% of sponsors’ applications were fraudulent.Chris Clem, who spent almost three decades with Customs and Border Protection, says the Trump team is working to resolve the many problems created by nearly 470,000 unaccompanied children crossing into the United States over the last four years, “overwhelming a system that was really put in place to protect the well-being and welfare of children.””It actually pretty much did the opposite with so many because the system was…

A Florida man was arrested for allegedly shooting his neighbor’s pregnant cow several times after it wandered onto his property, making good on his threat to shoot any animals that entered, according to deputies.Hung Trinh, 54, was charged with animal cruelty and grand theft of a commercial farm animal after he allegedly shot the two-year-old cow five times in its gut, chest and rear leg, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office wrote on social media.Deputies were called to a North Fort Myers home on May 13 and found the animal alive but struggling to stand or walk. The neighbor had reported…