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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Ob-Gyn doctor Camilla Hersh, founder and owner of Virginia Women’s Health Associates, explains why she is opposed to the incest exception to abortion. One patient, a pregnant 14-year-old, was brought to her. The pregnancy was the result of incest. In talking to the girl and her family the subject of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
Authorities arrested Tatiana Kudinova, a Russian businessperson, for arranging a hit on her daughter-in-law who had irritated her by making nonstop mother-in-law jokes. The feud began over who should pick up the tab for a family party. But Roxanne, the daughter-in-law, didn’t let it rest and continued…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Steven Felton, 34, was arrested for 10 armed robberies. Multiple security cameras caught his bare face with him holding a pellet gun and demanding money. In his defense he claimed his “evil twin” had carried out the robberies. Neither the jury nor the judge believed him and he was convicted by the jury…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When 19-year-old Josh Lewis went out to deliver a pizza to a hospital emergency room team, he never dreamed he would soon become a patient, but that’s what happened. While delivering the pizza, an assailant stabbed him and stole his Jeep Cherokee. While recovering from a collapsed lung and torn muscles…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases. Almost one-third of the cases involved minors. The department of justice believes about 300,000 children in the United States are trafficking victims. Shannon Forsythe is the founder…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Police in Trenton, New Jersey say Dwaine Whitaker turned himself in to them after he appeared on a surveillance video trying to hold up a business at gunpoint. They say a friend apparently told Whitaker about the video, and after watching it, he turned himself in.—Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell. Police:…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A Florida woman was shot in the leg while sitting at a café on Independence Day, but didn’t know until doctor found the bullet five days later. Heather Charlebois told a local paper that she initially thought someone threw a firecracker at her. She felt pain, but didn’t see much blood, so she didn’t…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 33 views
Michelle Wilkins, a 26-year-old Colorado woman answered a Craigslist ad for baby clothes. When she arrived she was attacked by a woman who cut her seven-month fetus from her womb. The mother survived the attack, but the baby did not. The suspect faces eight felony charges, including unlawful termination…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
A Michigan man whose wife pleaded guilty to trying to hire someone to kill him, asked the judge to be lenient with her sentence. Jake Merfeld’s wife was caught on tape in April, making a deal with an undercover police officer posing as a hit man. She told the undercover officer that killing him would…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
During the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX, Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife lost 26 members of their church family, including their own 14-year-old daughter. As the nation sat stunned at the news of the largest mass shooting in Texas history, the media requested a statement…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A 13-year-old-girl who was hit by a stray bullet is recovering from surgery and working through her pain. Tiya Hudson was hit in the back when a bullet went through the side of her house. Several neighbors heard an argument outside, but no one is sure where the bullet came from. Hudson’s doctors think…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Sparks flew at the Sunday celebration remembering Dr. King’s legacy of non-violence at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City. Deeply disturbed by the shootings in Newtown and Aurora, church member Mike Martin learned blacksmithing so he could transform symbols of violence into symbols that give life.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Authorities in the Chicago area say they are still searching for a man who allegedly took $75 out of a photo booth at an amusement park. The booth is designed to take pictures of anyone who tries to manipulate or damage it in any way. It snapped several pictures of the suspect which were left behind…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 22 views
In 2016, Colin Kapernick, the 49ers quarterback, gained national attention by not standing for the National Anthem. His choice was a personal act of protest against recent acts of police violence against African Americans, but erupted into a national media controversy for the NFL. Kapernick has drawn…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
In a Norfolk, Virginia courtroom, a teenager pleaded to the charge he murdered both his parents. The young honor student with no criminal history explained the reason he committed the crime. He explained that he’d gotten angry over routine punishments. “I just remember getting mad,” 16-year-old Vincent…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
The couple ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner took hostage in the final hours of his life are speaking out. When asked, “Did Dorner tell you why he was doing what he was doing?” They said he told them, “I just want to clear my name.” --Jim L. Wilson and Steven Lennertz —http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/christopher-dorner-hostages-wanted-clear-18499010…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The winter of 2013 and 2014 was especially cold in part of the United States. Police officers in several cities, including St. Louis Missouri say one benefit of the cold weather is a reduction in crime. Police officer Brian Schellman told a local television station that weather is one of several factors…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
26-year-old Cristian Osorio left Queens headed for Syracuse, New York in a stolen car. Police in Pennsylvania say he apparently took the wrong road and ended up lost and out of gas along a county highway. Authorities say Osorio was charged with receiving stolen property and unauthorized use of a motor…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
The internet has opened up a vast world of knowledge and experience. It has also enabled the harassment of people for their views, experiences, appearances, or demographic backgrounds. Pew Research reports that, “Fully 40 percent of online users have experienced bullying, harassment, and intimidation.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
One of the terms of Colleen Cudney’s probation for her 2012 DUI conviction is that she is not supposed to drink at all, and must take random breathalyzer tests. Recently she boasted on her facebook page that she passed the test, though she’d consumed alcohol the day before. What she didn’t think about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The courts convicted Cornealious Anderson of armed robbery and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison in 2000. The day he was sentenced, Anderson was told to wait for instructions on when and where to report to prison. When those instructions never came, Anderson went on with life and actually turned…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
As the season for fireworks approached in 2015, the state of Ohio eliminated part of law that made many residents lie. The state’s governor signed a provision that eliminated a requirement that required anyone who purchased fireworks to sign a form promising to take the fireworks out of the state within…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Some people are bad liars. A Nebraska man was fined $100 for marijuana possession after police searched his car and found his stash. The sheriff said that his deputies stopped the 21-year-old man on suspicion of driving drunk and did a quick search of his vehicle. Under the passenger seat they discovered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Google and computer scientists at Stanford University conducted a study of words used for security questions for online accounts found that many supposedly secure words are a lot less secure than people think. They found hackers could probably guess the answers with ease. For example, a hacker would…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Using a Popsicle stick and a razor blade, Carlos Garcia spent five months breaking the bar on his New Mexico jail cell and eventfully escaped. However, he had a change of mind and climbed back up the bed sheet and through the window into his second-story cell that he had just escaped from. Garcia is…