Justice Story
The case of the $1 counterfeit
Posted on 2011-04-02 14:00:00
Clearly, no criminal mastermind had produced this dollar. It was printed on a piece of cheap paper, available at stationery stories all over. At best, the artwork was crude, childish even. A black splotch served as Washington's left eye, his right was almond shaped. Letters and numbers were poorly formed, illegible, or uneven.Read More
A 'ninja' in Jersey Kills banker, goes postal
Posted on 2011-03-05 13:45:00
Marv Vandenberg of Montville, N.J., was walking his dogs around 11 p.m. on Nov. 15, 1988, when screams shattered the peace of this usual placid neighborhood.Read More
A floozy's regrets-- Hijinks end as cop shot down
Posted on 2011-01-01 14:30:00
After a rollicking tour of Manhattan's tope-and-grope saloons and social calls to a few unfamiliar beds, Lucille Brooks came down with a case of floozy's regret.Read More
Oklahoma and New York battle over the life of killer
Posted on 2010-12-25 13:05:00
Thomas Grasso of Tulsa, Okla., celebrated Christmas 1990 by strangling his neighbor, Hilda Johnson, 87. His weapon was a string of lights from her tree, and he finished her off by bashing her skull with an iron. He got her TV, $8 from her purse, and $4 in pennies.Read More
Father of the bride 'Big Fellow' kills son-in-law
Posted on 2010-12-18 12:50:00
On a summer day nearly a century ago, a teenager left his apartment on W. 158th St. in Manhattan on a daunting excursion to do the right thing.Read More
Don't mess with mama She guns down son's killer
Posted on 2010-12-11 12:50:00
This was just another one of those slum murders; one young hothead offended another and it ended with bullets and blood.Read More
His lawyer did him in -- Millionaire in battle of wills
Posted on 2010-12-04 14:50:00
William Marsh Rice, who made his fortune in Texas, lived the final years of his life scowling and alone inside a Madison Ave. apartment.Read More
Housewife grips city as bobbed hair bandit
Posted on 2010-11-27 14:30:00
There was a time when a woman's hair, long curls cascading down her back or piled high in a mass of upswept waves, was her glory.Read More
Old World revenge 'Only a pig would marry you'
Posted on 2010-11-20 14:05:00
As she walked home from work in the fall of 1893, a seamstress named Maria Barbella developed a habit of dawdling as she passed a shoeshine booth at Canal and Lafayette Sts. in Manhattan's Little Italy.Read More
Freedom dries 'Weeping Willow' killer's tears
Posted on 2010-11-13 14:20:00
Blond, blue-eyed Vera Stretz ended her affair with four bullets. And she freely admitted it to the first person who asked.Read More
Jersey Shore 'Thrill Killer' accused of killing five in early '80s
Posted on 2010-10-30 14:00:00
When Maria Ciallella, 17, set out on the evening of Oct. 31, 1981, it was likely she was going to run into all manner of ghosts, goblins and ghouls, all in the spirit of Halloween. But Ciallella never dreamed that she was also about to encounter a real-life monster.Read More
True Crime Story: From thug to war hero
Posted on 2010-10-16 14:20:00
At four o'clock in the morning of Dec. 26, 1920, a man stumbled out of an all-night bar on the lower East Side. A gunman waiting in the shadows shot him five times at point-blank rangeRead More
The killer 'cowboy' -- Horses & love lead to death
Posted on 2010-10-09 14:20:00
For Howard (Buddy) Jacobson, everything was about speed - fast horses, fast money, fast women. It would all put him on a fast track to murder.Read More
Justice stands on its head after Bronx massacre in 1986
Posted on 2010-10-02 15:55:00
Twenty-four years ago this month, cops padded carefully around a ghastly crime scene in a Southern Blvd. apartment in the South Bronx. Four Latino men lay dead, executed with gunshots to the head.Read More
