Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two men were arrested Monday on charges of conspiracy to kidnap, torture, rape and kill woman and children in an elaborate, twisted plot, the FBI announced. Charged were Richard Meltz, chief of police for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Bedford, Massachusetts Veteran Affairs Medical Center, and Robert Christopher Asch,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As a hostage standoff reaches a fourth day in Alabama, authorities are hoping the kidnapper grows tired and surrenders as a FBI hostage negotiator talks with the suspect through plastic ventilation pipes, CNN reports. On Tuesday afternoon the suspect boarded a bus stop, killed the bus driver and grabbed two children. One…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Details continue to roll in about the kidnapping-murder-suicide of Adam Mayes, who had just been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Mayes in April had abducted a mother and her three daughters. The mother, Jo Ann Bain and the eldest daughter were found dead. The FBI says that the two…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A missing 9-year-old girl has been found dead, the Associated Press reports, and the girl’s babysitter was arrested on murder charges Monday night. The FBI had been helping in the search. Aliahna Lemmon’s body was found in northeast Indiana, near her family’s mobile home park, investigators say. They aren’t releasing where…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Seeking the public’s help, the FBI in Albuquerque has released hundreds of images of items collected during the investigation of suspected serial killer David Parker Ray. Ray died in 2002 while serving more than 223-years in a state prison in connection with the kidnapping of two women who said he sexually…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com It was February, 1980 in Detroit. I was assigned to the FBI surveillance squad (with apologies to Jack Webb and his introductions to “Dragnet”). It was very cold in the back of the van. We hadn’t yet installed a heater that would work when the van wasn’t running. I had been…
