Browsing: Crime

A Brief History The once wildly popular Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert airing at 11 PM and 11:30 PM (Eastern Time) on weeknights on Comedy Central have flopped miserably with the replacement hosts. Digging Deeper Trevor Noah took over the Daily Show from Jon Stewart on September 28, 2015 and Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show replaced The Colbert Report on January 19, 2015. Since losing Stephen Colbert to network television as the host of CBS’s The Late Show, Wilmore has seen ratings in that time frame drop by a whopping 55% (as of…

A Brief History On May 14, 1988, Larry Mahoney, a convicted drunk driver, was driving on I-71 near Carrolton, Kentucky, a route to a cruel fate for 27 people riding in a church bus.  Mahoney had a prior DUI conviction and was sailing along in the wrong direction with a blood alcohol content of .24%, more than double Kentucky’s legal limit at the time. Digging Deeper The pick up truck driven by the drunk Mahoney struck the 1977 Ford/Superior former school bus nearly head on at a closing speed of over 100 mph, driving suspension components into the gas tank…

A Brief History On May 12, 1932, the lifeless body of Charles Lindbergh Jr. was found, about 6 weeks after he had been kidnapped from his crib. The kidnapping and murder of the child of “Lucky Lindy,” the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop was called at the time “The Crime of The Century.” (Remember, at that time Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls had not yet been made!) History has been marked by abductions of famous people and by famous abductions of people. Here we list 10 of the most notable kidnappings. Digging Deeper 10. Adolf…

A Brief History On May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover, only 29 years old, was appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation, the agency that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  He remained in that post until he died in 1972 when he was 77 years old. Digging Deeper Hoover made the FBI famous through high standards of hiring and rigorous training of its agents, and by striving to stay on the cutting edge of scientific crime fighting.  Through the carefully planned use of publicity, he kept the FBI and himself at the front of the public’s attention, and the…

A Brief History On May 10, 1865, President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, was captured by Federal troops in Georgia. Many Americans in the North consider Jeff Davis to be the worst kind of traitor, while many Americans in the old Confederacy drive around with bumper stickers that read “My President is Jeff Davis.” Whether someone is a freedom fighter or a traitor is relative depending on the perspective of the observer, which is why JD does not make the list. Others have been accused and even executed as traitors, such as Mata Hari, who turned out…