Philip Garrido believed the black box had special powers and gave it to a friend for safekeeping. “He was a whack job, but he was a whack job who sounded like he had a really good heart,” said the friend, who asked not to be identified. Garrido is charged with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in [...]

Florida authorities have requested federal assistance in locating a man sought for questioning in the deaths of his wife and five children, as he is believed to be in Haiti, officials said Monday.

An employee of a luxurious New York hotel has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman in one of the hotel’s residential condominiums, police say.

Legally insane killer Phillip Paul is the subject of a massive manhunt near Spokane, Washington, after escaping while on a field trip to a county fair. He had been confined to a mental institution but was allowed to go on the trip. Paul strangled and slit the throat of a community activist in 1987 because [...]

Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado resident and Afghan national suspected in an alleged terrorist plot in the United States, declined to attend a fourth day of interviews with the FBI, his attorney’s publicist told CNN on Saturday.

Authorities found another bone, using ground-penetrating radar to scan the trash-strewn property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido. The bone was found after a block of concrete was broken up. Investigators are looking for evidence in two missing girl cases from the late 1980s.

Two cadaver dogs showed interest in the same area of property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido, a possible indication of human remains, police said. Investigators are looking for evidence in the cases of Michaela Garecht and Ilene Misheloff, girls missing since the late 1980s.

Raymond J. Clark III, charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was smart, amicable and loved his dog, say those who knew him. Clark, 24, the same age as Le, was a technician in the school of medicine’s Animal Resources Center, where Le’s body was found stuffed in a basement [...]

Two Florida school administrators were due to appear in federal court Thursday to face contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.

Police from two California cities searched the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido Tuesday in connection with the disappearances of Ilene Misheloff and Michaela Garecht. The Garridos are charged with with the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, then 11. Dugard was kept captive for 18 years.