Category: Viral

It started over a tent. A rainy spring afternoon in a wealthy Dallas suburb, a stupid turf war between teenagers, and now a 17-year-old is dead while another faces life behind bars. On Tuesday, a Collin County jury took less than three hours to reject 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony’s self-defense claim, convicting him of murder for […]

It ended the only way these things usually do. In the dirt. James “Weston” Higginbotham, a 20-year-old Auburn University junior with a passion for the environment, went into the Japanese woods and never came out. Volunteer searchers found his body in the rugged, forested mountains near Kyoto, wrapping up a frantic, agonizing hunt that local […]

The ocean has a habit of spitting out what it kills. On June 3, around 8 p.m., it was the body of 31-year-old Kellie Melinda Williams. Two fishermen spotted her floating in the surf near Hollywood Beach’s North Boardwalk and Thomas Street. They called the cops. It was already too late. Williams, a California native, […]

Wrong place. Wrong time. That is all it took for 50-year-old Patricia Shepard to die in a metal-shredding hail of gunfire at a Louisiana gas station. Gunmen unleashed between 70 and 80 rounds into a parked car early Thursday morning, apparently convinced their mark was sitting inside. They were dead wrong. The actual target had […]

The mountain usually keeps its dead. Especially after a week in the freezing heights. But Dawa Sherpa had other plans. On Thursday morning, a cleanup crew spotted a shape dragging itself through the snow near the Khumbu Icefall, just above Everest’s base camp. It was Dawa. He was crawling. The 52-year-old guide had vanished on […]

The sun comes out, the temperature spikes, and the sea claims another one. Chiedza Nyanjowa was only 15. The Cheshire teenager got into serious trouble while swimming at Formby beach on Bank Holiday Monday, sparking a desperate rescue effort that ultimately failed. She died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Her family is devastated. […]

The Sonoran Desert is a massive, unforgiving graveyard. It hides secrets well. Sometimes, too well. But when a high-profile disappearance brings a circus of searchers, the desert is forced to spit some of those secrets back up. That is exactly what happened outside Tucson. Amateur sleuths and law enforcement have been scouring the harsh Arizona […]

He hid a GPS tracker in his toddler’s toy. That is how Yurii Muzyka hunted down his ex-girlfriend, Halyna Hoisan, before slaughtering her in front of their child. Now, the 34-year-old Ukrainian national is going away for a very long time. An Old Bailey judge handed him a life sentence on Friday. He must serve […]

Another day, another near-disaster on the Cornish coast. This time, a father and his 14-year-old son learned the hard way that the Atlantic doesn’t care about your holiday plans. The pair had to be hauled from the freezing, churning waters off north Cornwall after their kayaking trip went south. Fast. It started just after 10:40 […]

An extensive fish kill observed in Georgia’s Chattahoochee River is being attributed to a combination of intense rainfall and subsequent runoff from the Atlanta metropolitan area. Following months of severe drought across the state, several days of torrential downpours and flash flooding in Atlanta and Northern Georgia created perilous conditions within the river system. On […]