Crime Stories

A recent X post from @interesting_aIl has pulled an old police photo back into circulation: a hulking, roughly finished five-shot revolver sitting next to bright red 12-gauge shells. The caption claims Brazilian officers recovered the homemade weapon during a 2011 drug arrest in São José, Santa Catarina. The image looks more like a movie prop than anything carried on a duty belt, which is...

Tennessee is preparing to carry out the scheduled execution of Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row. Pike, now 50, faces lethal injection at 10 a.m. CDT on September 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. The Tennessee Supreme Court set the date last year. If the execution proceeds, she would become the first woman put to death by...