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The Bridgewater Four are four men who were tried and found guilty of killing 13-year-old paperboy Carl Bridgewater, who was shot in the head at close range near Stourbridge, England, in 1978. In February 1997, after almost two decades of imprisonment, their convictions were overturned and the three surviving defendants were released; the fourth ...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) service call for this alert—the latest in over a dozen similar calls from the previous twelve months at this location—was likewise dismissed as a false alarm. [1] Three additional service calls were triggered beginning at 4:30 am the following morning, which corresponded with Easter Sunday.
A wealthy California businesswoman was gunned down in front of a restaurant in broad daylight in what initially seemed like an armed robbery. Now, authorities claim the brazen Jan. 10 shooting of ...
On June 14, 1995, Phillips and Mătăsăreanu ambushed a Brink's armored car in Winnetka, Los Angeles, killing one guard, Herman Cook, and seriously wounding another. [21] In May 1996, they robbed two branches of Bank of America in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, stealing approximately US$1.5 million.
On Sept. 12, 1997, $18.9 million was stolen from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street in Los Angeles. The robbers were eventually caught, the Los Angeles Times reported ...
LOS ANGELES, Ca. (KTLA) -- A 70-year-old retired Los Angeles Police Department detective was identified Thursday as the "Snowbird Bandit," who robbed five Orange County banks between March and ...
Johnny Madison "The Shootist" Williams Jr. (born January 19, 1951) is one of the most successful bank robbers in American history. After his arrest on July 9, 1994, Williams confessed to 56 bank robberies across the states of California, Texas, and Washington state over an eight-year period, beginning in 1986, usually with the help of his wife, Carolyn, usually known as Carol.
Chilling video shows a wealthy California businesswoman being chased around her car and then gunned down in a parking lot — in what cops call a “murder-for-hire scheme” orchestrated by her ...