St. Patrick’s Day UFOs
On St. Patrick’s Day in 2006, the police in Nanuet, New York assumed that the high volume of calls reporting UFOs was just the result of too much partying on this festive day. In all fairness …
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Deadline set for prosecutors to seek death penalty against bike path terrorist
Crimson Astray: When politicians perpetuate the death penalty against the will of the people
Trump's 'alarming' death penalty call threatens suspect's chance of fair trial, experts warn
New York truck attack suspect 'spent a year planning'; Donald Trump tweets that he ‘should get death penalty’
NYC Officials Won't Say What These Mystery Towers Are For
Hillary Clinton in talks with Columbia University to take on professor role
The former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential nominee is in talks with Columbia University to take on a formal role at the Ivy League — and potentially house her archives there, multiple source…
The Bronx’s Quiet, Brutal War With Opioids
In the Bronx, which lost more residents to drug overdoses last year than any other New York City borough, the heroin epidemic has latched on to a vulnerable population. The dramatic rise in opioid-re…
He Excelled as a Detective, Until Prosecutors Stopped Believing Him
But prosecutors now say Detective Desormeau, 34, struggled with one aspect of police work: telling the truth. After relying on Detective Desormeau’s word in hundreds of cases, prosecutors no longer b…
Holding Prosecutors Accountable Is Hard. It Could Get Harder.
Under United States Supreme Court precedent, it is relatively easy to sue police officers who commit misconduct, but federal law still provides enormous protections to prosecutors. Individual lawyers…
Government Erecting Mystery Metal Towers in NY, Won’t Say Why
As bizarre metal towers mysteriously appear at entrances to bridges and tunnels all over New York, the project remains shrouded in secrecy. When pressed for details on the mystery structures by local…
Dean Skelos’s 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
A federal appeals panel on Tuesday overturned the 2015 corruption convictions of Dean G. Skelos, once the powerful majority leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, toppling …
The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
The NYPD is increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it's worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have…
Push to solve gun cases fuels rapid growth of New York's DNA database
New York City is building a vast, unregulated DNA database that police are already using to connect suspects to evidence from crime scenes across the five boroughs. In the last five years, the number…
ConspiracyScope is now Publishing from The Space Coast of Florida
I have moved The ConspiracyScope bunker from New York City to The Space Coast of Florida.
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Evil lived here: Son of Sam arrested in Yonkers 40 years ago
YONKERS – After nights of murder in New York City, the killer commuted from his grisly, blood-puddled crime scenes to his apartment here on quiet Pine Street. Here, the "Son of Sam” slept on a m…
Pete Hamill: David Berkowitz was the phantom without a face
Sometimes the roads took him to work. He was a postal clerk in the Bronx General Post Office, a great, ugly building on the top of the slope at 149th St. and the Grand Concourse. In the wake of the k…
Parking ticket was the key to catching Son of Sam
It was a parking ticket. A simple, run of the mill $35 New York City parking ticket - one of eight million slapped underneath windshields each year - broke the case. This was the clue that led police…
How a Son of Sam Detective Realized ‘This Has Got to Be the Guy’
James Justus remembers hanging up the telephone convinced that he had something. It was Aug. 9, 1977. He was a police detective checking on parking summonses issued in Brooklyn on July 31, the night …