And the rapist who prowled in her bedroom for 11 months was not a lone man, but an entire government, the government of Cuba.
—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
Fresno man murdered children during police standoff Mass murderer and child rapist Marcus Wesson murdered nine of his children in 2004 during a custody dispute that led to a police standoff in Fresno.
Crucial events morphed into massive set pieces, like Louis hunting down Claudia’s killers by setting their theater on fire, exploding the motorcycles of the vampires who fled the inferno, and eventually bursting out of a manhole to behead Claudia’s main tormenter.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
Pedro Báez joined the Los Angeles pen in 2014 and assumed the role of Goldschmidt’s primary tormentor.
The animal pads beside her, companion and protector, its golden eyes scanning the landscape around them for predators or potential dangers, as it has been trained to do.
—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
The fossil record rarely preserves direct evidence of predator-prey interactions.
—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Incredibly, one of Schiller's torturers, Jorge Delgado - the Sun Gym member who had first told Lugo about Schiller and his millions - ended up helping the federal government make their case.
—
Troy Roberts,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
His torturers shattered his hands and paraded him around the stadium, taunting him to try to play his guitar.
The show is inspired by the true story of the man who became known as ‘Ireland’s most polite bank robber,’ and The Irish Independent podcast of the same name.
—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
17 May 2026
An alleged bank robber was taken into custody in Allegheny County thanks to a third grader's homework assignment, authorities said.
The only danger was that theriac was thought to heat the body and thus could supposedly render an individual more susceptible to corruption by the plague.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
Declining enrollment and rising labor costs plague school districts across the Bay Area and California, but Contra Costa County schools’ financial problems long predate its current crises.
—
East Bay Times editorial board,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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