Word: commiting
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...Utah, Jeffs faces two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man. In Arizona he faces multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor and multiple counts of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Jeffs is being held in federal custody in a Las Vegas county jail pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. It is not yet clear whether Jeffs will face extradition to Arizona or Utah. "Everyone will get their turn with Jeffs," said Tim Fuhrman, Special...
...that night. 'Yeah, I copped the shiv for my man Charles.' I was in league with a guy behind bars. Just a little, but I was sure I could have some actual street cred for this. And I had this nifty multipurpose tool that had actually been used to commit a crime - my one real tie to an accused felon's world. What a great souvenir...
...turns out that John Mark Karr didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey, he won't be the first to confess voluntarily to a crime he didn't commit. The motivation for these phony admissions, says criminologist Jim Fisher, author of Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, can be "mental illness or extreme guilt over another crime, or they're just yearning for the attention a big case brings, the chance to be in the history books...
...July of that year, Karr had moved to Petaluma, Calif., the city that had been gripped by the 1993 abduction and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. According to his brother Nate, by that time Karr was working on a book about men who commit sex crimes against young girls and was preoccupied with the murders of Klaas and Ramsey. Karr and his family had moved to California so that he could take a job as a teaching assistant at a Catholic elementary school in San Francisco. That job too lasted only a few weeks, although school officials...
...Meanwhile, Karr's brother Nate, who hasn't spoken with him in five years, told Fox News that his brother's fascination with pedophiles and predators stemmed not from pathological obsession, but from an intent to write a book about men who commit crimes against children. Nate has also said that he thinks his brother wrote to Polly's convicted killer in prison. Karr also said he wrote several letters to JonBenet's mother Patricia, who died of cancer two months ago, expressing remorse for having murdered her daughter...