A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

A woman was forced to work as a slave on a remote Alpine farm for more than 40 years. picked by Franz6 11 months ago

An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!

The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. picked by funkfrost 8 months ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Former NHL player Rob Ramage was sentenced to four years in prison for a 2003 crash that killed ex-Chicago Blackhawks player Keith Magnuson. picked by punthe 2 years ago

A Chinese woman's 64-year-old headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War Two. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 4 weeks ago

The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A woman documented her image year after year and stored the pics in a makeup bag. Then someone bought the bag at a flea market and voila! a post for moi. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006. picked by muppet 2 years ago

A 29-year-old Illinois man who admitted to driving from his home near Chicago to Sterling Heights for a planned sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 10 years in prison in federal court today.
10 years ? I can think of a much better sentence.... picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

Doctors say that cannot explain how or why this happens to her based on what they know of persistent vegetative states. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Pretty amazing story... woman in South Korea uses internet phone service to call 911 as she is being strangled. Because she failed to tell the phone company (Vonage) that she left the country, her 911 call gets routed to Illinois... and the 911 operator STILL manages to get help to her! -- Link includes news article and video report. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

A judge today sentenced a woman to 25 years in jail for beating an elderly man to death with his own cane - and in front of his terminally ill wife - after the man confronted her about missing money. picked by suebe 3 months ago

TWO men and a woman employed by a Canadian mining company were jailed for 20 years each for forcing a 13-year-old girl to have sex with a dog. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

One can spend a long time in jail in the U.S. without ever being charged with a crime.

It happened to H. Beatty Chadwick, a former Philadelphia-area lawyer, who has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

A woman who was drunk when the golf cart she was driving with six children aboard tipped over, injuring five of the children, was sentenced Friday to six months in jail -- to be served on weekend work release -- and three years probation. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 2 years ago