You Just Can’t Make This Shit Up!

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Natalie Garza hasn’t given up hope for her son — or for the authorities who have searched for him.
But frustration with the pace of searching and the continued mystery of what happened to 19-year-old Nicholas have caused her to take matters into her own hands.
Garza, who has been living at Middlebury College […]

MADISON, Conn. — A Madison man has avoided prison in a drunken driving death because a town police officer who investigated the case was recently fired in a scandal.
Neal Gobrogge hosted a party last year after which 19-year-old Kirsten Meyer was killed in a crash caused by drunken driving.
Gobrogge faced three years in prison if […]

LAPORTE, Ind. — Asle Helgelien didn’t believe Belle Gunness’ claims that his brother, missing for months after answering the widow’s lonely hearts ad, had left her northern Indiana farm for Chicago or maybe their native Norway.
Suspicious after a bank said his brother, Andrew, had cashed a $3,000 check — a large sum in 1908 […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Police say a 7-year-old Florida boy faces grand theft auto charges after taking his grandmother’s sport utility vehicle for a joyride. The eight minute trek left a swath of damage in his Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood Friday. The boy smashed mailboxes, hit parked cars and signposts. He was unhurt.
Police […]

VIENNA, Austria — A woman has told police that she was held prisoner in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered her seven children.
Lower Austria police said in a statement that the 42-year-old woman, identified as Elisabeth F., had been missing since Aug. 29, 1984 and […]

EASLEY, S.C. — An 18-year-old man gunned down his father, stepmother and two siblings at the home they shared in suburban South Carolina, authorities said.
Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested Saturday evening at a home in Belton about 20 miles from where the bodies of his family members were found, Anderson County Sheriff’s spokeswoman […]