Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was the focus of the first season on the extremely popular “Serial” podcast, has moved closer to a new trial. But it’s not necessarily a done deal. On Thursday, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, by a 2-1 ruling, ordered a new trial for Syed on all charges. It upheld a […]
Inmates at Wisconsin’s scandal-ravaged teen prison made more than 600 phone calls on a cellphone they stole from a manager over two weeks before prison staff got on top of the situation, state records show. Prisoners at Lincoln Hills School for Boys snatched the phone and its charger from the office of Rick Peterson on […]
Attorneys for the Busby man convicted of beating and burning a Crow Agency woman alive in 2016 filed a request Wednesday to reschedule his sentencing hearing for a later date as they consider new information about a cell phone that may contain a calendar entry relevant to the case. Dimarzio Sanchez, 20, was convicted at […]
This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site. While scanning the information Facebook had stored about his contacts, Dylan McKay discovered something distressing: Facebook also had about two years’ worth of phone call metadata from his […]
In June 2010, Bill Ewasko traveled alone from his home in suburban Atlanta to Joshua Tree National Park, where he planned to hike for several days. Ewasko, 66, was an avid jogger, a Vietnam vet and a longtime fan of the desert West. A family photo of Ewasko standing at the summit of Mount San Jacinto, […]
