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Trailer Park, Unhitched: With Killer Joe, Friedkin Continues His Slow Descent...
Hirsch and McConaughey in Killer Joe. Director William Friedkin has always been attracted to lurid movie material. From the gruesome, overcooked The Exorcist to the vile and unhinged Cruising, he...
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Sons of Anarchy Actor Johnny Lewis Dies After Deadly Attack on Elderly Landlady
Johnny Lewis. (Getty Images) Johnny Lewis, a 28-year-old actor known for his role as Kip "Half Sack" Epps on FX's Sons of Anarchy, has died. Los Angeles authorities tell TMZ that Mr. Lewis is also...
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Pedro Hernandez Charged With Second Degree Murder in Death of Etan Patz
Julie Patz, on the Today show, two years after her son Etan's disappearance. A New York grand jury has indicted Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 death of Etan Patz. Mr. Hernandez, a...
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NYPD Stats Show that Brooklyn is Still Bloodiest Borough
Though Brooklyn may seem like a happy hipster haven populated by vintage clothing stores and indie music venues, the borough remains New York’s bloodiest. According to an annual NYPD report released...
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NYPD Officer Shoots 1-Year-Old Son and Boyfriend in Brooklyn Murder-Suicide
This morning, an off-duty police officer shot and killed her boyfriend and her one-year-old-son before turning the gun on herself, according to police. At around 8.30 a.m. today, emergency officials...
View ArticlePhotos: Thousands March in Memorial of Hate Crime Victim
(Photos via Getty Images) Last night, New Yorkers came together to mourn the death of 32-year-old Mark Carson, a gay man who was shot in the head this weekend in Greenwich Village; the victim of an...
View ArticleBloomberg Vows to Appeal Stop-and-Frisk Ruling in Fiery Press Conference
At a press conference littered with grisly imagery, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ripped apart a federal court ruling today that found current stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. “This is a very...
View ArticleNo Turning Back on Crime
According to official statistics compiled by The Observer this week, there were 8,340 murders and “non-negligent manslaughter” cases during David Dinkins’s four years as mayor (1990-1993). There were...
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Celebrated Iranian Band Members Killed in Bushwick by ‘Enraged Musician’
The Yellow Dogs A tragic scene was discovered early Monday morning: Two members of the Iranian band The Yellow Dogs were found dead in their Brooklyn home after a fellow musician allegedly shot the...
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My Uncle Vinny: Coping With the Murder of a Beloved Relative
The author, right, with his uncle Vince Pravata in the early 1990s. (Photo courtesy of Bill Janovitz) On Oct. 16, 2009, James Arauz stabbed my uncle Vincent Pravata more than 20 times in his own home....
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