Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sarah Jo Johnson clutched a handgun, holed up for hours in a car and surrounded by a SWAT team and local officers. The Associated Press reports that Johnson fatally shot herself instead of surrendering after she and another man were wanted by the FBI for allegedly robbing a Montana coin shop and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did he jump? Was it an accident? The FBI is investigating how a 26-year-old man ended up overboard as a cruise ship sailed to Puerto Rico, UPI reports. According to a Coast Guard statement, Tien Phuoc Nguyen intentionally jumped off the Royal Caribbean ship Adventure of the Seas on Saturday. Nguyen was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Ariel Castro hanged himself in his jail cell earlier this week, he left behind many questions. How was he able to avoid arrest for abducting and raping women? Why did he do it? Some of the answers can be found in recently obtained FBI video of the convicted kidnapper, who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Israel Keyes took the easy way out. After the serial killer accused of murdering at least 11 people committed suicide in his Anchorage jail cell in early December, the FBI compiled a list of Keyes’ likely victims, Reuters reports. Keyes was waiting trial for the murder of an Anchorage barista. The FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI released blood-soaked, handwritten prose found beneath the body of an admitted serial killer in Alaska. While the writings don’t shed more light on his crimes, they open a window into the mind of an obsessed murderer, CNN reports. Israel Keyes, who killed himself in jail in December, said he killed…
By Jonathan Allen Politico WASHINGTON –– A member of the president’s Secret Service protective detail, who was being investigated for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement sources. The official cause of Rafael Prieto’s death is still pending. The investigation had…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An unarmed Canadian border guard shot in the neck while monitoring the crossing north of Seattle is expected to fully recover, the Associated Press reports. In the meantime, investigators are trying to determine why Andrew Michael Crews, a 32-year-old tattoo artist from Seattle, shot the guard and then committed suicide by turning…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A little more than a month on the job, ATF agent Jeff Ryan was helping arrest a man with a history of impersonating police officers when all hell broke loose on Aug. 31, 2001, the Syracuse Post-Standard wrote in a report about the incident. Crouched behind a car, Ryan watched L.A. Deputy…
