ANTHONY GARCIA'S DUMB TATTOO GETS HIM 65 YEARS

STUPID TONY

 THEY call him "Stupid Tony." A California gang member was hammered with a 65-year prison sentence for killing a rival in 2004. But Anthony Garcia, 25, went one step further with the heinous crime: he had the whole event of murdering John Juarez, 23, in downtown Los Angeles tattooed on his chest. Then, after years a cops spotted the Stupid Tony's stupid tattoo. Game, set and match for the cops. 

COPS SEEK CLOSURE IN 1972 COLD CASE MURDER

RONALD Thaisen always had an adventurous spirit.  The 25-year-old marine had decided to embark on more great adventure before he retired from the military in the next couple of months.  In the summer of 1972 he planned an epic cross-country drive – taking in all the sights as he went from the West coast of the United States to the East.  However, Thaisen never made it to the other side.
Instead, Albuquerque detectives discovered Thaisen’s battered body in the back of his old Dodge van.  Thaisen had a reputation as being a trusting, friendly guy.  According to his wife Karen Larson, he’d regularly pick up hitchhikers, and this trip was no different.  He picked up three hitchhikers just short of the Arizona-New Mexico border.  Soon after Thaisen called his brother and told

AMANDA KNOX SOBS TO ITALIAN COURT: 'I'M INNOCENT'

THE NOTORIOUS Amanda Knox, AKA Foxy Knoxy told an Italian court Saturday she is innocent. DNA experts looking at the case have been given extra time. Foxy Knoxy was sentenced in December 2009 to 26 years in prison for the brutal slaying of British student Meredith Kercher. The two shared a house in Perugia.  Cops believed the murder was triggered by a drug-fuelled sex game that turned violent. MORE ON FOXY KNOXY

FOLSOM PRISON BLUES: RACE RIOT AT INFAMOUS JAIL

JOHNNY Cash would not be happy. A violent riot has broken Folsom Prison which he made famous with his infamous record in which two inmates were stabbed multiple times.
More than 150 inmates smashed up the maximum security jail and guards were forced to fire a warning shot and used pepper spray to break up the fight.  
The condition of the two inmates who were stabbed was not immediately known, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Several other inmates were taken to outside hospitals, while others were treated at the prison for minor injuries, she said.

MICROWAVE MOM ARNOLD SPARED DEATH PENALTY

HELPLESS

EVIL

AN EVIL mom who viciously placed her baby in the microwave, burning her to death after a row with her boyfriend was spared the death penalty and instead given life without parole.
Twisted China Arnold intentionally put her helpless 28-day-old child, Paris Talley during a drunken argument about whether the boyfriend was the infants biological father.

GUNSHOT VICTIM DAVION POWELL, 3, MOURNED

DESPITE his tender years three-year-old Davion Powell touched the lives of all who knew him, before he was cruelly robbed of his life when a stray bullet came through his apartment window.
As gang members apparently fought it out outside, the toddler was happily playing in his Louisville, KY when he was shot in the head, devastating his friends and family.
Gwen Jordan, Davion's daycare provider described him as a child "everybody loved" at a huge memorial service for him. She told Wave 3:  "He was a loving little boy. Very...you know just...very lovable." Jordan said. Everybody loved him at the daycare."

DNA HELPS CRACK 1994 LA COLD CASE MURDER

KILLER?

THE case baffled cops for well over a decade but a determined detective refused to be beaten and now thanks to DNA a brutal killer has been brought to justice. Kevin Bernard Smith Jr is charged with the bloody shooting Rupert Thompson and the attempted killing of Thompson’s wife, Dorothy in their LA home back in 1994. The pair were nearly asleep in their ground floor bedroom when Dorothy Thompson woke to find a gunman at the foot of their bed after hearing some glass shatter.
The man then blasted her in the torso before her husband got up and struggled with the thief in their front garden but he managed to escape. 
Rupert Thompson, then 73, later died and Dorothy Thompson was partially paralyzed in her right shoulder.

PITTSBURGH BOY, 7, GAVE HEROIN TO CLASSMATES

A LITTLE BOY has been caught giving away bags of heroin to his classmates in a Pittsburgh school.
The seven-year-old boy was caught was 18 bags of the killer drug, stamped "magic ticket" with a bunny jumping out of a hat, clearly designed to be dealt to the city's desperate junkies, in his locker.
Sources at the city's Roosevelt Primary School said they became suspicious after the boy cut his finger on a razor blade.
And after they questioned the student a teacher found the 18 individual bags of heroin in his backpack and locker which the boy reportedly told authorities that he got from his father's bedroom.