Tag: True Crime

Some mysteries fade with time. Others become part of a community's memory passed down through generations because the questions were never fully answered. Across America, Black families have endured unexplained deaths, missing children, erased burial grounds, lost records and photographs whose subjects remain nameless. From the disappearance of Relisha Rudd to the unsolved murder of The Notorious B.I.G. and the missing Tulsa records, these cases continue to provoke questions about what happened, what investigators discovered, and what may have been overlooked.

Suge Knight is hoping Duane Keefe D Davis squeals in court because he claims Tupac Shakur's murder was an assassination involving far more people than the lone man now standing trial. The incarcerated Death Row Records cofounder called into TMZ Live as jury selection continues in Keefe's murder trial in Las Vegas, telling the hosts the public has been fed the wrong story about the killing for nearly thirty years. Suge says the attack wasn't over a chain or gang colors. His blunt take was this was an assassination.

Connor Murphy, the controversial American fitness influencer known for his bodybuilding videos and "looksmaxxing" content, died in an apparent drowning in Thailand on July 7. He was 32. Police in Thailand's Samut Prakan province were called to a luxury rental property after reports that a man was "acting erratically." Murphy reportedly ran toward a nearby lake, jumped into the water, and swam for several minutes before appearing to become exhausted and disappearing beneath the surface. Rescue divers later recovered his body about 20 meters from shore.

When 18-year-old college football player Nolan Wells set off for a Fourth of July boat trip to Mississippi's Horn Island with friends, no one expected his family would be left grieving his death. Now, just over two weeks after his body was found, a high-profile national investigation was triggered, plagued by conflicting timelines, allegations of missing phone data, and an independent autopsy that has left more questions than answers.

Just two weeks after being sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for the tragic murder of 13-year-old Na'Ziyah Harris, Jarvis Butts has been found dead from an apparent suicide in a Michigan correctional facility.

Authorities have identified 35-year-old Ivanna Ortiz as the suspect accused of firing shots at Rihanna's Beverly Hills mansion. Ortiz, originally from Florida, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder. Investigators are examining her social media activity leading up to the incident.