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  • Colorado man sentenced for killing longtime friend and burying his remains in crawl space

    AURORA, Colo. (TCN) — A 40-year-old man will spend three decades behind bars for killing his friend and burying his body in a crawl space with help from his girlfriend.

    According to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Haskel Crawford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with Karl Beaman Jr.’s death. A judge sentenced him on April 17 to 30 years in prison. The term will be served consecutively to a 16-year sentence Crawford is already serving for a separate aggravated robbery case out of Jefferson County.

    Beaman’s mother called the Aurora Police Department to report her son missing after she last heard from him in May 2022. She reportedly began working to find her son on her own and started a Facebook page.

    According to prosecutors, a tipster sent a private message to the page, claiming Beaman was “buried in an apartment crawl space underneath concrete.” The tipster reportedly said Casie Bock and her boyfriend, Crawford, killed the victim “because they believed he was a ‘police informant’ in a pending criminal case.” The district attorney’s office noted that the defendant and victim had been friends for a long time.

    Police searched Bock’s apartment and found Beaman’s decomposed body in a crawl space through her bedroom. Bock later admitted that she helped the defendant place the victim into the crawl space after Crawford killed him. She pleaded guilty to being an accessory to a crime and received a deferred judgement in 2023.

    During Crawford’s sentencing hearing, Beaman’s mother said, “He murdered my only child. This plea agreement means my son’s loved ones, our family, and my husband and I are spared from having to listen to the horrific details or seeing graphic images of the brutality that took place. We may never know all the details, but the defendant does. I hope it haunts him every day for the rest of his life like it does me.”

    Deputy District Attorney Michele Fuller added, “Mr. Beaman died in the hands of someone he considered his best friend and brother of nearly two decades. We are pleased with the judge’s decision to sentence the defendant to the maximum prison sentence outlined in the plea agreement.”

    • Aurora man sentenced for killing friend, burying remains in apartment complex crawl space – 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
    • Grave Found of Missing Man, 4/5/2023 – Aurora Police Department
    • Colo. woman arrested after missing man found dead in the ‘crawl space of her condo,’ 4/6/2023 – TCN

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Easter: Police recover bus with arms in Onitsha

    Easter: Police recover bus with arms in Onitsha

    By Ovat Abeng

    Police operatives attached to Fegge Divisional Headquarters in Onitsha, Anambra State have recovered a bus with arms concealed inside a rice bag.

    The State Police Public Relations Officer SP Tochukwu Ikenga who disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Saturday said the operatives at about 1.30 pm on 17th April 2025, while on patrol, intercepted a bus parked suspiciously along Port Harcourt Road, Upper Iweka, Onitsha, during a search of the bus, they found a bag of rice containing five pump action guns, eight live cartridges and two handcuffs neatly concealed in it.

    The arms and the bus were recovered, and investigations are still ongoing to unmask the culprits.

    Furthermore, the Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad/Anti- kidnapping Unit acting on credible information on 17th April 2025 by 1.27 pm arrested one Israel Akachukwu ‘m’ aged 25 years, recovered two pump action guns, two live cartridges, one cutlass, one yellow axe and a dagger in his apartment at Ezeigwe Street Nkpor, Idemili North LGA.

    Read Also: NDLEA intercepts cocaine in Saudi-bound religious books, arrests bandits’ supplier with drugs in private part

    The suspect confessed to being a member of the Viking’s Confraternity and is already working with the Operatives to arrest other gang members.

    “To this end, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, while encouraging the people to be law-abiding, vigilant and security conscious at all times noted that the operation is part of Command’s commitment to ensure that residents/visitors feel safe and to nip to the bud any untoward situation during the 2025 Easter celebration in the state.

    The CP also advocates for the emulation of Christ’s humility and selfless lifestyle and urged the people to used the period of the festivity to pray for the peace and security of the State and the country at large.

  • Man dies several days after being attacked with hatchet while sitting at bus stop with wife

    TUCSON, Ariz. (TCN) — A 32-year-old Alabama man passed away almost two weeks after he was violently attacked by a stranger with a hatchet while he and his wife waited at a bus stop.

    On April 5 at approximately 10 a.m., Tucson Police Department officers responded to an assault call on East Broadway Boulevard and South 6th Avenue, where they found Jacob Couch with sharp-force injuries. Witnesses and bystanders reportedly rendered aid before police and fire showed up. Paramedics transported Couch to Banner University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

    Officers searched for the suspect, Daniel Michael, in the area, but did not locate him.

    Investigators learned Michael allegedly approached Couch and his wife at the bus stop and “initiated a confrontation with the couple.” During the confrontation, Michael reportedly pulled out a hatchet and struck Couch in the neck. Michael left the scene and boarded a streetcar.

    Michael was arrested April 8 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with serious injury.

    KOLD-TV reports Couch died Thursday, April 17, just before 9 p.m. when his heart gave out. Couch’s sister-in-law told the news station, “The injury cut the artery in the back of his neck in half. It went so deep that it hit his skull.”

    Tucson Police said they have amended the charges against Michael to first-degree murder.

    Couch and his wife were heading back to their home state of Alabama after spending several months in California, where they went to start over when their son was stillborn in May 2024, according to KOLD.

    According to Arizona Republic, detectives reportedly located a hatchet and clothing at Michael’s apartment that matched witnesses’ descriptions. Michael allegedly initially claimed he didn’t attack Couch, then later said he was drunk and didn’t remember what happened.

    Michael reportedly said he thought Couch was using drugs, and at one point, he reached into his pocket. When he did that, Michael took out a hatchet from his jacket and attacked Couch.

    Michael is in custody at the Pima County Jail with bond set at $1 million.

    • Homicide Investigation – Tucson Police Department
    • Charges upgraded for suspect in Tucson hatchet attack after victim dies – KOLD
    • ‘Life is so precious’: Hatchet attack at Tucson bus stop leaves husband on life support – Arizona Republic

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Man convicted of fatally strangling his estranged wife after their separation in 1988

    WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (TCN) — An elderly man has been convicted of fatally strangling his estranged wife whose body was found in a trunk nearly 37 years ago.

    On April 17, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office said a jury found 70-year-old Robert Atrops guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the 1988 death of Deborah Atrops. Robert Atrops will be sentenced on May 20.

    According to prosecutors, around the time of her slaying, Deborah Atrops and the defendant experienced marital problems, including alleged physical abuse, and they separated. The victim, who had recently adopted an infant daughter with Robert Atrops, reportedly planned to divorce him.

    Co-workers and friends allegedly witnessed “concerning domestic violence behavior” between Deborah Atrops and the defendant shortly before the victim died. Deborah Atrops had also reportedly began a relationship with a co-worker, which the defendant had confronted her about. The victim allegedly feared that Robert Atrops would kill her.

    On Nov. 29, 1988, Deborah Atrops left her job for a hair appointment and then planned to pick up her daughter from her estranged husband’s residence. That night, the defendant reportedly called friends, family, and law enforcement to report the victim’s disappearance. According to prosecutors, Robert Atrops said he made the calls from his home phone, but investigators believe he made them from somewhere else.

    Police responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle at a remote construction site days later, on Dec. 1, 1988. The vehicle’s window was open with the keys inside, but it didn’t have any plates. Authorities determined the car belonged to Deborah Atrops, and they found her body inside the trunk. She was reportedly wearing mud-covered clothes, and there was also mud smeared on the hood, steering wheel, gear shift, and a tire. An autopsy later revealed Deborah Atrops died by manual strangulation.

    According to prosecutors, Robert Atrops told police that he didn’t see his estranged wife that night, but investigators weren’t able to confirm his statement. No arrests were made at the time, and the case went cold for decades.

    The case was reopened in 2020, and authorities submitted the victim’s clothing and soil samples for testing. A break came when investigators found the defendant’s DNA on a coat Deborah Atrops was wearing when she died. Prosecutors said the mud found at the scene also matched mud from the defendant’s home. Investigators learned Robert Atrops sold roofing materials at construction sites near where his estranged wife’s body was located.

    In 2022, a detective interviewed Robert Atrops and noticed “significant discrepancies from his version of events in 1988.”

    • Robert Atrops Found Guilty in the 1988 Cold Case Homicide of Deborah Atrops – Washington County District Attorney’s Office
    • Man arrested more than 3 decades after his estranged wife’s body was found in trunk, 3/3/2023 – TCN

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Colo. man convicted of posing as wife’s ex, stalking, and fatally stabbing her in the heart

    BROOMFIELD, Colo. (TCN) — A jury found a 44-year-old man guilty of multiple charges, including murder, for posing as his wife’s ex-boyfriend, stalking her, then beating and stabbing her to death in their home.

    On Dec. 14, 2023, Broomfield Police Department officers went to a home on the 3100 block of Promontory Loop for a welfare check and found 43-year-old Kristil Krug deceased inside. Four days later, investigators arrested her husband, Daniel Krug, on one count of first-degree murder. The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office formally charged him on Dec. 21, 2023, with first-degree murder, two counts of stalking, and one count of criminal impersonation.

    According to the district attorney’s office, starting around October 2023, Krug reportedly began stalking his estranged wife and “carried out an elaborate scheme to impersonate a fictitious stalker, attempting to frame an ex-boyfriend of Kristil’s who lived in Utah.” The ex-boyfriend, however, had a “verifiable alibi” and police did not find any proof that he traveled to Colorado.

    Daniel Krug reportedly bought burner phones, created fake email addresses, harassed her online, and “terrorized Kristil under the false identity.” Krug reportedly shared a photo from the fake account of him showing up to work “to support the illusion that someone was stalking both of them.” Kristil Krug became scared for her safety due to the stalking, so she started carrying a gun and taking firearm safety classes. Her kids knew about the stalker, and undercover police got involved to help figure out the person’s identity.

    On Dec. 14, 2023, just before 8 a.m., Kristil Krug came home from dropping her kids off at school and entered her garage. Daniel Krug was reportedly “lying in wait,” where he “ambushed Kristil from behind, striking her in the head multiple times with a blunt object before fatally stabbing her in the heart.”

    Daniel Krug reportedly tried to mislead detectives by sending texts from Kristil Krug’s phone to her brother and to a Broomfield Police detective about how she had been unfaithful. Those claims, however, were false. Daniel Krug used her phone to turn off the home security system and then covered the doorbell camera with tape.

    Video footage showed Krug leaving the house at 8:24 a.m., which was about 30 minutes later than the time he typically left. He deactivated his car’s dashcam, then bought coffee before driving to work at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He called and texted Kristil Krug at around noon, then called police and requested a welfare check. Officers arrived at their home at 12:28 p.m., and she was declared dead at 12:43 p.m.

    The district attorney’s office said the evidence “pointed directly to Daniel,” including a phone being at the exact locations as his personal phone several times, as well as one of the fake email addresses being created on his work network. He reportedly Google searched on Dec. 13, 2023, “How hard would you have to hit someone in the head to make them unconscious?” and “How long can you be unconscious without brain damage?”

    Krug’s trial lasted two weeks, and on Thursday, April 17, a jury found him guilty of all charges. The murder conviction has a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

    • Broomfield Defendant Convicted of Murdering, Stalking Wife Following Multi-Week Trial – 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
    • Promontory Loop Homicide Arrest, 12/18/2023 – Broomfield Police Department
    • 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Files First-Degree Murder Charge Against Daniel Krug, 12/23/2023 – 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Biden WH Cover-Up Exposed

    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of Nashville School Shooter “Manifesto” Records
    White House Revisions to Biden Special Counsel Interview Transcript Revealed
    Did Democrat Arizona AG Announce Trump ‘Investigation’ to Sway Election?
    Public Pre-K-8 “Inclusivity” Books Push Gender Transitioning, Drag Queens
    Happy Easter!

     

    Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of Nashville School Shooter “Manifesto” Records

    We just received 112 pages of documents of the “manifesto” of the March 27, 2023, shooter at The Covenant School in Tennessee. The records were an interim release in response to our FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01483)).

    The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on the Covenant School, and transgender-related distress. The records show she considered an attack on a mall but did not pursue it because of the facility’s security measures.

    The Covenant School killer’s ‘manifesto’ records are exceedingly disturbing but should have been released long ago. We appreciate the Trump administration’s transparency. These records may help Americans understand and perhaps better prevent and protect their schools and other targets from mass shooters.

    Separately, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (Hammond et al. v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al. (No. 23-0538-III)). The lawsuit is on appeal after a lower court upheld efforts to keep all the records secret.

     

    White House Revisions to Biden Special Counsel Interview Transcript Revealed

    Joe Biden’s handlers, including his White House lawyers, bent over backwards to prevent the American people from learning that he wasn’t up to the job.

    We’re adding to the evidence.

    Judicial Watch received 52 pages of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice showing White House staffers suggesting edits to transcripts of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding his handling of secret documents.

    We received the documents thanks to our FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of communication between the agency and White House regarding the altered transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s October 2023 interviews of President Biden in the criminal investigation into Biden’s theft and disclosure of classified records (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-02176)).

    In a separate lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to declare whether it intends to continue denying Judicial Watch’s request for the full audio of former President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Trump Justice Department has until May 20, 2025, to report its position on the release of the videotape.   (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-00700))

    Also, previously in that lawsuit, we forced the Biden administration to confess that the transcripts of the audio recordings have been altered and are not accurate.

    The new documents provided in this case include a chart of suggested changes by Biden White House and personal lawyers to the transcript. Also included are emails that detail Biden lawyer Bob Bauer’s requesting access to interview exhibits and a meeting with the special counsel to discuss the case. Justice Department official Marc Krickbaum confirmed most White House revisions to the transcript were accepted, including minor clarifications and changes potentially masking Biden’s confusion, such as correcting who said “Yeah” or altering references to Biden’s Delaware garage and President Biden’s seeming inability to recall the name of the Defense Secretary.

    These documents provide an extraordinary insight into a cover-up of the White House of Biden’s cognitive challenges. The Bondi Justice Department should follow up with the full release of the actual audio of President Biden’s disastrous interview with the special counsel on his document theft and mishandling.

    On October 12, 2023, Bob Bauer, personal attorney to Biden and White House Counsel for President Obama, writes to Marc Krickbaum, then-Deputy Special Counsel, and others, including several White House staffers:

    Gentlemen:

    Now that the interviews of the President have concluded, we would like to discuss with you the written presentations that we are preparing to aid in the resolution of this matter, as well as the schedule for their timely submission. To this end, we request a meeting for the purpose of hearing from you where matters stand in the case, which would enable us to focus our presentations on the issues it would be most helpful for us to address. The meeting would include both personal and White House Counsel.

    ***

    As you know, we also have an outstanding request for copies of the exhibits you provided in your interview of the President. We have noted that these exhibits would be necessary in our review of the transcripts of the interviews to check for any omissions or inaccuracies. We believe it is fair that we have access to this material at least for this purpose. This is one of the issues we would like to resolve at the meeting, along with an understanding for our planning purposes of when the interview transcript may be available for review in both audio and video form.

    In a follow-up email, he corrects himself: “…the reference to ‘video’ can, of course, be disregarded.”

    On December 21, 2023, Krickbaum writes to Rachel F. Cotton, Deputy Counsel to the President in the Office of the White House Counsel, and others showing the court reporter rejected some of the proposed edits to the Biden transcript

    Dick and Rachel,

    We had the court reporter who prepared the transcript review your suggested revisions. She accepted most of them. This table lists your revisions and then describes whether we did or did not make changes.

    We may have to send the transcript itself on the high side [classified] next week. I will let you know when we do.

    Thank you.

    Marc

    Some proposed transcript edits detailed in a chart produced by the Justice Department suggest that the Biden White House changes to the transcript might be considered an effort to cover up Biden’s mental confusion. White House suggests:

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: The date is 4-20-09. Was I still Vice President? I was, wasn’t I? Yeah. Yeah.

    Mr. Bauer: Yeah.

    President Biden: Yeah.

    On this entry, the White House attaches a note: “Audio indicates that ‘Yeah’ was said twice in succession by President Biden. Mr. Bauer did not say ‘Yeah.’

    The court reporter records:

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: The date is 4-20-09. Was I still Vice President? I was, wasn’t I? Yeah. Yeah.

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

    PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yeah.

    Other changes also seem significant. One seems to refer to Biden’s garage at his Delaware home, where secret documents were found.

    The White House proposed this change:

    were delivered my the garage

    The court reporter records:

    were delivered to the – my garage.

    At another point, Bien might have been confused about the name of the Secretary of Defense. The White House proposedthis change:

    Secretary of Defense? Gates

    UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Gates.

    A White House entry on that notes states: According to the audio, President Biden says “Gates” prior to the unidentified male speaker.

    The court reporter records:

                Secretary of Defense? Gates?

                UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Gates.

    The White House responds:

    The court reporter inserted a question mark that is unsupported by the audio recording. It is clear that the President said “Gates” as a statement rather than a question. We ask that the question mark be replaced with a period …

    Regarding that last entry and another, on January 3, 2024, Amish [probably Amish Shah, Senior Associate Counsel in the White house Counsel’s Office], emails Krickbaum:

    Thank you for sending. We have reviewed and are fine with almost all of the court reporter’s responses. However, we ask the SCO to reconsider the attached two corrections on Day 2. Both corrections are supported by the audio recording of the interview.

    On January 22, 2024, Krickbaum replies:

    We will send a revised transcript of the President’s interview on yellow [higher security], and attached is a revised list of edits. For the two revisions you suggested in your last email, the court reporter adopted the second and adopted a slightly modified version of the first.

    On February 28, 2024, an Executive Officer in the Special Counsel’s Office emails Free State Reporting:

    Good evening. Would you be able to come back (hopefully, the last time) on Friday, 3/1 or Monday, 3/4 (the sooner, the better? There are more edits to the President’s transcript. I’ll have an exact number tomorrow. I’m getting the computer back so it will be blank when you arrive so it will need your software on it again. It got wiped when I thought everything was finished. I’ll meet you out front with a new parking pass. My apologies for the inconvenience.

    It’s not clear what these last-minute changes were.

    We have several ongoing FOIA lawsuits about Biden’s document scandals and the related unprecedented partisan prosecutorial and judicial abuses of former President Donald J. Trump.  I will have updates for you as events warrant!

     

    Did Democrat Arizona AG Announce Trump ‘Investigation’ to Sway Election?

    Here is yet another example of “lawfare” abuse targeting Donald Trump.

    Our open records lawsuit reveals that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes seems to have used her office for political purposes in threatening a prosecution of President Trump on the eve of the 2024 presidential election (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Kris Mayes et al (No. CV 2025 00675)). Only one document was found (and kept secret) relating to a criminal investigation, while dozens of media-related documents were revealed.

    In an October 31, 2024, interview with Tucker Carlson at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Trump said of Liz Cheney: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ “

    On November 1, 2024, Mayes, a Democrat, said during the taping of the Channel 12 “Sunday Square-Off” news show: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.” She conducted multiple media interviews within days of the election.

    Mayes’ office provided comments to CBS, NBC, CNN, AZ Family, Forbes, Fox, News Nation, Sky View Networks, Law and Crime News Network, Newsweek, and Reuters in what appears to be an attempt to paint Donald Trump as a criminal shortly before the election.

    The records show the threatened “investigation” of President Trump was merely an oral request from the Arizona General Mayes to a top staffer to evaluate the Liz Cheney statement.  The only record of the investigation that exists is a 3-page memo from the Attorney General’s criminal division chief back to Mayes, which the Court reviewed in camera and determined was protected attorney work product and therefore can be withheld.  Presumably (and probably from media sources) the memo declined to open a more substantial investigation or initiate a prosecution.

    The lack of records further supports our theory that the investigation—purportedly launched on the Friday before the 2024 presidential election and dropped shortly thereafter—was a sham to try to influence the outcome of the election in an important swing state.

    Mayes ended the “investigation” on November 13, 2024, telling the Arizona Republic that Trump’s comment “very likely may have been an effort to intimidate Cheney” but the investigation showed there was “no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump’s statements. We think it’s equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war.”

    We filed our lawsuit in the Superior Court for the State of Arizona, Maricopa County, this past January after Mayes’ office failed to comply with a November 12, 2024, Arizona Public Records Act request for records regarding Mayes’ office and/or the criminal division chief analyzing Trump’s statement as qualifying as a death threat; the determination whether the statement was analyzed to be a violation of Arizona and/or federal law; the costs to carry out the investigation; and any documents in which Mayes addresses the limits of free speech as addressed in the First Amendment.

    (Additionally, we asked for records regarding the dismissal of criminal charges against Arizona citizen Rebekah Massie, who was arrested during an August 20, 2024, Surprise City Council meeting after she criticized a proposed pay increase for the city attorney.

    Maricopa County Judge Gerald Williams dismissed with prejudice the trespassing charge against Massie, writing: “No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech. In this case, the government did so in a manner that was objectively outrageous.”)

     

    Public Pre-K-8 “Inclusivity” Books Push Gender Transitioning, Drag Queens

    Public schools in Maryland, right next door to the nation’s capital, are definitely promoting left-wing extremist and anti-American ideas to children as young as pre-kindergarten. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the details.

    Leftwing activism has run amok in two Maryland public school districts with “inclusivity” books for elementary students that champion gender transitioning, drag queens and children’s pronoun preferences and a high school student suspended for questioning why all his classrooms do not have an American flag as state law requires. The taxpayer-funded districts are situated about an hour apart but practice the same woke ideology that has gripped academic institutions throughout the United States, a leftist conditioning that President Trump has vowed to abolish. An executive order issued in late January states that federal funding and support will be eliminated for indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology and that parental rights will be protected. “Young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed,” Trump’s order reads. “These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.”

    The order’s language is especially relevant to the first case, which involves Maryland’s largest school district,Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), with about 160,000 students in 210 campuses located a short distance from Washington D.C. In 2022 the Montgomery County Board of Education announced that students in pre-K through eighth grade would use over 20 new “inclusivity” books that promote gay pride parades, gender transitioning and pronoun preferences for kids. One book directs three and four-year-olds to search for images from a list of words that includes intersex flag, drag queen and underwear as well as the name of a celebrated LGBTQ sex worker turned activist. Other books promote gender transitioning for children, stating that it does not have to make sense and that doctors only guess when identifying a newborn’s gender. When education officials announced the district would use the pride storybooks, it assured concerned parents they would be notified so they could opt out their children. A year later the policy changed, so parents would no longer be warned.

    A group of Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian parents sued, and a federal district court and a court of appeals ruled against them so they petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed earlier this year to hear their case. A Washington D.C. nonprofit dedicated to protecting the free expression of all faiths represents the concerned parents and will argue before the nation’s highest court on April 22. Upholding parental rights meant that children would not be subjected to age-inappropriate instruction against their parents’ wishes, but the policy change denies parents the right to decide when their elementary-aged children are exposed to books promoting transgender and queer ideology, attorneys for the group say. “The Board cannot refuse parents who want to opt their children out of instruction that violates their religious beliefs on sensitive matters,” the nonprofit representing the parents further points out, adding that it is “unlawfully coming between parents and their kids and targeting them because of their religious beliefs about gender and sexuality.” That violates both Maryland law and the school board’s own policies as well as the U.S. Constitution, the religious freedom charity asserts.

    In the other case, a high school student about an hour away in Baltimore County was suspended for seven days over his patriotism. The 18-year-old, Parker Jensen, who has enlisted in the military, is a senior at Towson High School and got punished for questioning why all the classrooms in his campus do not have an American flag even though Maryland law says every classroom must have one. When school administrators failed to provide an explanation, Jensen drove to the Baltimore County Board of Education headquarters to ask about the flag violation and district officials called the police on him, according to a local news report. The high school senior was subsequently suspended for seven days. This month Jensen filed a lawsuit against Baltimore County Public Schools claiming that the district violated his Constitutional rights when it suspended him for inquiring about missing American flags in public school classrooms. “He was summarily suspended without any due process whatsoever, which every student in Baltimore County and Maryland has the right to and they stripped him of that within five seconds,” said Jensen’s attorney, who assures the student’s Constitutional rights were violated.

     

    Happy Easter!

    “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.” ~ Clarence W. Hall

    In this season, Christians around the world are celebrating the resurrection of Christ. There are no more powerful symbols of hope than the cross and the empty tomb. From me and mine, I wish you and yours all the joy of Easter! For those celebrating Passover, I wish you a Happy Passover, as well!

    Until next week,

    Source: Judicial Watch

  • Coach accused of luring teen to locker room for community service hours and making sexual comments

    POLK COUNTY, Fla. (TCN) — A high school football coach faces charges after allegedly making inappropriate sexual comments to teens, including to one victim he lured into a locker room under the guise of community service.

    According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, on April 2, a parent reported “inappropriate conversations” Tyler Eden reportedly had with their daughter when she met with Eden for community service hours. Upon further investigation, detectives learned Eden allegedly asked a 16-year-old student to help him sort football helmets in the locker room.

    Authorities allege Eden talked to the student about a “teacher who wanted to have sex with him in the locker room,” and the victim said she “didn’t want to talk about that.” According to the sheriff’s office, the victim told officials Eden continued the conversation anyway and said he was married but “still wanted to engage in sexual activity with the teacher.”

    The student reportedly helped perform community service tasks again the following day. Authorities allege that while she was breaking down boxes, the zipper on her hoodie broke, but all she had on was a bra underneath. The student reportedly asked Eden for a T-shirt to cover up. Eden allegedly reached out and completely unzipped her jacket, and the student said she felt uncomfortable.

    Eden tried to help fix the zipper and eventually gave the victim a shirt, so she went into a different locker area to change. Sheriff Grady Judd alleges Eden watched her and commented on how “pretty” her bra was. Eden allegedly kept saying there were no cameras in the locker room. Investigators said Eden told the student not to report the interaction, but she later told her parents and school staff about the incident.

    According to the sheriff’s office, Eden told school administrators that he “only provided the student with a shirt.” When school staff said they were going to place him on administrative leave, Eden allegedly admitted that he tried to fix the student’s zipper at her request.

    Detective discovered there were two other alleged victims, both female students. One of them reportedly said that Eden “told her there were no cameras in the locker rooms and how it would be ‘easy to do certain things in there.’” Eden also allegedly made comments to the victim about his popularity and how another teacher wanted to engage in sexual activity with him in the locker room.

    The third victim reportedly told authorities Eden asked her what she wanted to do after graduation, and she said she wanted to become a gynecologist. Eden allegedly said that he would make a good gynecologist “because he liked to perform oral sex on women.” When Eden asked her if she wanted to earn community service hours, she turned him down.

    In a press conference, Judd said investigators believe there are other victims out there, and the sheriff suspects Eden “wanted to have sex with these children.” He added, “This guy is a total creep, and now he’s going to jail. We are not going to tolerate school teachers and coaches preying on our children.”

    Eden was booked into the Polk County Jail on charges of lewd offense against a student by an authority figure, lewd and lascivious touching of a minor, and voyeurism.

    Eden reportedly started working at Bartow High School in 2019 and has been the school’s head football coach since 2023.

    • PCSO arrests Bartow High teacher for inappropriate behavior and voyeurism – Polk County Sheriff’s Office
    • Arrest of BHS teacher/coach Tyler Eden – Polk County Sheriff’s Office

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Man who escaped custody sentenced for killing woman while she was housesitting for relatives

    LAPEER, Mich. (TCN) — A man who escaped from custody while being transported from Montana to Michigan will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a woman at her relatives’ home.

    The Michigan Attorney General’s Office announced that a judge sentenced 44-year-old Chadwick Mobley on April 15 to life in prison without the possibility of parole in connection with the death of Andrea Eilber. Mobley previously pleaded no contest in February to first-degree murder, felony murder, and felony firearm.

    According to prosecutors, in 2011, Mobley shot Eilber in the head. WJRT-TV reports that the victim was housesitting for her aunt and uncle at the time. Eilber’s boyfriend, Kenneth Grondin, was reportedly convicted of first-degree murder, but the case was reopened in 2022. With the help of advanced DNA testing, prosecutors said investigators linked Mobley to the crime.

    The court of appeals reportedly overturned Grondin’s conviction due to a form error, and he is awaiting a new trial. Mobley allegedly has no connection to Grondin.

    According to the attorney general’s office, Mobley, who was living in Utah, fled his home after Michigan State Police questioned him. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department later arrested him in Montana.

    The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office said that on July 9, 2023, while officials transported Mobley from Montana to Michigan, he escaped his handcuffs and ankle shackles when they stopped at a Plains Town Pump gas station. The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office told residents in the area to lock their doors and cars and to be on the lookout for Mobley. The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office and Plains Police later located and apprehended him.

    At the defendant’s sentencing, Eilber’s aunt reportedly said, “At least this plea will hopefully get you out of society so you can never hurt anyone else’s loved one.”

    According to WJRT, Mobley apologized and said he had “no words that could bring them solace.”

    In a statement, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said, “My thoughts remain with Andrea’s family, friends, and community. I hope this outcome brings some measure of solace and healing to those who loved her.”

    • Chadwick Mobley Sentenced to Lifetime Imprisonment for the 2011 Lapeer County Murder of Andrea Eilber, 4/16/2025 – Michigan Attorney General’s Office
    • Man wanted in Michigan cold case murder captured after he escapes from custody in Montana, 7/11/2023 – TCN
    • In Custody, 7/9/2023 – Sanders County Sheriff’s Office
    • Attention! In Custody, 7/10/2023 – Sanders County Sheriff’s Office
    • 44-year-old sentenced to life in prison for 2011 death of Andrea Eilber – WJRT

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Judicial Watch: FBI Releases Nashville Shooter Manifesto

    (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 112 pages of documents that make up the “manifesto” of the March 27, 2023, shooter at The Covenant School in Tennessee. The records were an interim release in response to a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01483)).

    The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on the Covenant School, and transgender-related distress. The records show she considered an attack on a mall but did not pursue it because of the facility’s security measures.

    “The Covenant School killer’s ‘manifesto’ records are exceedingly disturbing but should have been released long ago. We appreciate the Trump administration’s transparency. These records may help Americans understand and perhaps better prevent and protect their schools and other targets from mass shooters,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

    Separately, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on behalf of retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (Hammond et al. v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al. (No. 23-0538-III)). The lawsuit is on appeal after a lower court upheld efforts to keep all the records secret.

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    Source: Judicial Watch

  • Dad leaves Manson-style messages after killing family; New mom disappears | Full Episode

    In this episode of “True Crime News,” Chris Coleman had a busy job as the bodyguard for a famous televangelist, but it turns out he committed more than one sin — including murder. Plus, a new mom goes missing and is presumed dead after she tried to get away from her controlling boyfriend.

    Source: True Crime Daily