The boundaries of the judicial process and who can and cannot serve as a witness in a criminal case are being tested in a recent murder trial where a parrot named Bud could serve as a murder witness. When the dead body of 45-year-old Martin Duram was originally discovered in Michigan last spring, his wife, Glenna Duram (who […]
Over the last 15 months, true crime has seen a surge in popularity and attention amongst a widening audience thanks to the Serial podcast, Netflix’s 10-part docuseries Making A Murderer, and, to a lesser degree, HBO’s The Jinx, which have sought to elevate the genre from cheesy reenactment-filled fluff to high-brow non-fiction storytelling. All briefly […]
In Touch magazine has an exclusive story in their current issue featuring interviews with multiple jurors from Steven Avery’s 2006 murder trial sharing their current thoughts on the guilty verdict that has been called into question by the new Netflix docu-series, Making A Murderer. This comes on the heels of one anonymous juror allegedly telling the […]
Did you guys see this crazy picture of rabid Miami Heat fan Filomena “Phyllis” Tobias flipping off Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah? It’s pretty crazy, right? Well not nearly as crazy as Phyllis’s back story. See, in 2008, she was accused of murdering her husband. Family members of her husband, Seth Tobias, believe that he […]
I spent the holidays as many people across this great nation did — binge-watching the epically addictive and totally depressing Netflix docu-series, Making A Murderer. Twice. The 10-part documentary takes a hard look at the case of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who was falsely convicted in 1985 for rape and attempted murder — thanks, in part, […]
Hawaii’s Andrea Flegle was perturbed by the fact that the puppy she’d purchased for her daughter kept trying to sniff her daughter’s crotch. Not bothering to use common sense, or understand animals, or realize that this is basically a Thing That Dogs Do, Flegle did the only logical thing in her mind and slit the […]
