Murder

An Australian mother convicted of killing her children claimed a "victory for science" on Tuesday after an unexpected research breakthrough helped win her freedom after 20 years in prison. Kathleen Folbigg was jailed in 2003 after she was convicted of killing her four infant children, who died separately without explanation between 1989 and 1999. She was found guilty despite a lack of forensic evidence linking her…

via MGM There isn’t much in the world of cinema that can be designated as a guaranteed box office success, but for the most part, history has shown that an action thriller starring Denzel Washington in the lead role is about as bulletproof as it gets. The two-time Academy Award winner is one of the most bankable names in the business, but as Out of Time showed 20 years ago, even he isn’t immune from the odd flop on occasion. The murder mystery thriller came bearing a talented cast, intriguing concept, and a…

“There’s a lot of people from the tech community who would either come to voyeur, just to sort of see it in a state of shock,” says Stefanos Tiziano, who organises BDSM events in the city, and which he says draws a different crowd to the swinging scene (BDSM is an umbrella term that covers bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism).“There were folks from some of the big companies that are still there that I partied with, and a lot of them knew each other.” Tiziano says his events are particularly popular when big tech…

A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, indicted a man suspected of killing rapper Takeoff on a murder charge on Thursday. Patrick Xavier Clark is accused of shooting and killing the Migos member, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, on Nov. 1 outside a Houston bowling alley, the grand jury said, according to court documents reviewed by The Times.Clark, a 33-year-old DJ and nightclub promoter, was arrested by Houston police in December and has been out on a $1-million bond, court records said. He is under house…

The man accused of stalking an idyllic Malibu park, peppering motorists and campers with gunfire that ended in the shooting death of a father of two, was convicted of murder and three counts of attempted murder Friday.Anthony Rauda, 46, will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison after jurors convicted him of gunning down 35-year-old pharmaceutical scientist Tristan Beaudette, who was killed inside of a tent he was sharing with his daughters in June 2018. Rauda was also convicted of multiple burglaries and…

I have been agnostic about Justine Triet’s work in the past, but her courtroom drama murder mystery in this year’s Cannes competition, with its ambiguous title and ambiguous dénouement, is very intriguing. It reminded me at various stages of Billy Wilder’s Agatha Christie adaptation Witness for the Prosecution or Steven Bochco’s underrated, under-remembered 90s TV drama Murder One.Sandra Hüller plays Sandra, a successful and fashionable author (that staple figure of French cinema), German by birth, but now living in a…

Netflix It’s official. The new movie The Mother from real-life mother Jennifer Lopez about being a mother, which released on Mother’s Day, is a hit. The new movie, which premiered on Netflix, drew in almost 3 million viewers. According to viewer data shared by Deadline, 2.8 million households at least started watching the movie. It was a big hit with non-white households as well, per the data; 33% of households that watched the movie were Black, and 25% were from Hispanic households. The movie beat out two…

SAN FRANCISCO—In certain wealthy tech circles it is known as “The Lifestyle,” an underground party scene featuring recreational drug use and casual sex.A successful tech executive named Bob Lee liked to hang out with that crowd, according to people who also participated. So, too, did Khazar Momeni, the wife of a prominent plastic surgeon, these people said.What's NewsSee MoreWhat's News SAN FRANCISCO—In certain wealthy tech circles it is known as “The Lifestyle,” an underground party scene featuring recreational drug…

As Bruno Schulz, the Jewish writer and artist who is the subject of Benjamin Balint’s new biographical study, once wrote: “urge to sad whimpering to understand in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with the feeling of homelessness”.Well, not quite. These are Schulz’s words – sort of – but translated from the Polish in which he wrote them into English, and I’ve chosen them at random from the strange and extraordinary book Tree of Codes, produced in 2010 by the American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. It consists of the…

An 18-year-old man who was charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of Pop Smoke has confessed to killing the rapper during a home invasion in Hollywood Hills.The Los Angeles Times reports the suspect, who was 15 years old at the time of Pop Smoke’s murder, admitted this week to a first-degree murder charge stemming from the killing of the Brooklyn rapper (born Bashar Barakah Jackson). Jackson was fatally shot on Feb. 19, 2020 at the age of 20. A group of attackers broke into an Airbnb where Pop was staying, shooting and…