The Weird World of Crime (1)

By Bill Bickel

Last month, three men kidnapped a multi-millionaire – the second-richest man in Connecticut, in fact – and plan to hold him for $5 million in ransom. They held him in a motel room for about thirty hours, then finally got cold feet about the whole operation, and decided to let him go… but not before using one of his credit cards to order a pizza delivered.

They’ve all been arrested, of course.

Not yet arrested is a fourth man, not in the motel room with them, who’s been described as the plot’s “mastermind” – not that that’s saying a whole lot.

Six years ago, before I began to cover weird crime news, I thought stories about bank robbers who....

COURTROOM Q&A:

Lawyers’ questions and witnesses’ responses, as recorded by court stenographers

Q: "Was that the same nose you broke as a child?"

A: "I only have one, you know."

Q: "Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?"

A: "By death."

Q: "And by whose death was it terminated?"

Q: "What is your date of birth?".......

It’s a new year, and our law enforcement friends should plan their vacation when….

Top 10 signs your partner needs a vacation

1. He keeps handcuffing himself by accident
2. He starting to develop a crush on one of the transvestite hookers he arrested
3. He wants to transfer to a K-9 unit because he thinks he looks good in a collar
4. He talks to himself. Half of him is the “good-cop”, and the other half is the “bad-cop”
5. He wants you to call him “Judge Dredd” and he insists that all suspects be executed right there on the spot