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According to witnesses, Dylan Roof talked and prayed with his victims for an hour before pulling out a gun and methodically shooting nine members of the Emmanuel AME Church. At his first court appearance, magistrate James B. Gosnell Jr. read the names of the slain, one by one. After the reading of a…

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…

When our lives drift away from a focus on God our lives pay the price by ending in a time, place and manner that we never intended. In March of 2015, a plane crashed in the German Alps. It seems that the Co-Pilot intentionally switched the autopilot on the doomed Germanwings plane to descend to 100 feet.…

FBI Director James requires every new FBI special agent and intelligence analyst to go to the Holocaust Museum. He says, “I want them to learn about the abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale. I want them to see humanity and what we are capable of. I want them to see that, although this slaughter…

A 26-year-old abortion counselor from New Jersey posted a video of her own abortion on the internet. During the procedure she is seen smiling while holding hands with the nurses. Afterward she said, ‘I don’t feel sad. I feel in awe of the fact that I can make a baby. I can make a life.’ Then she can…

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…

Katy Waldman writing in Slate.com reacts to the blame given for the horrific actions of humans. “Mostly, people see acts of violence and evil ‘through their personal viewfinders.’ It is the video games. No, its mental illness.” She was responding to the accusation that the Internet was responsible for…

One of the greatest trusts in the world is the gift of Children. God entrusts mothers and Fathers both with innocent human life. It is more than tragic when we fail to keep that trust. Megan Huntsman faces six counts of murder after admitting to strangling or suffocating at least that many of her own…

Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly shooting three people and terrorizing many others at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and the nearby Village Shalom assisted-living facility. Cross has a background of bigotry. In the 1980’s he led a KKK organization.…

In 1984, Stephen Owens and his mother Gaile found his father beaten to death in their home. Stephen was surprised; Gaile was not. She was not surprised because she hired Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband, a task that he did with a tire iron. Forgiveness did not come easy. Owens had no contact with…

District Attorney in Pasco County in Florida charged Curtis Reeves, 71, a retired Tampa police officer with a second-degree murder after he shot and killed Chad Oulson in a movie theater. According to the report, Reeves was angry because the victim was using his phone to send a text. Reeve’s personnel…

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…

Kermit Goswell is the late-term abortionist who was convicted of murder and is in prison in Pennsylvania. He was convicted of killing babies who were born alive after an attempted abortion. Far from repentance, Goswell is writing abortion-inspired poems. When asked about his crimes he responds, “I feel…

In 2013 at the Newtown shooting hearing, an emergency medical technician and a first responder to the tragedy Brian Shimer commented, "Neither the size of the magazine nor the style of the rifle will affect the actions of evil, . . . Those wishing to do harm to those wishing to do good will never be…

The stories on Tonight’s nightly news will likely contain the accounts of person on person violence. It is so prevalent that it does not startle us anymore. However, on a recent Monday in New York City not a single person was shot, stabbed, or murdered over a 24-hour period. Police officials cannot remember…

In Fort Worth, Texas a man drove his car into the church, chased down the pastor and beat him to death with an electric guitar. A maintenance worker who tried to help the pastor was injured and hospitalized. The police used a Taser on the suspect, put him in the back of the patrol car, then was pronounced…

The family of Micah Pate, who was murdered by her husband in 2009, has chosen to follow a path of forgiveness and service rather than seeking revenge. They are working with a documentary filmmaker to put together an educational film for young women that can help them make wise decisions when choosing…

In Cambodia, a ten-story platform holds hundreds of skulls of victims of the killing fields. Security Prison 21, now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh holds the torture chamber where many met their death. In Vilnius, Lithuania the former Soviet KGB prison has been turned into a museum. “You…

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…

A mother’s decision to forgive the boy, who murdered her only son, has had a bigger impact than she could have imagined. In 1993, a 16-year-old killed Mary Johnson’s son Laramiun during an argument at a party. Mary wanted justice and said the killer, Oshea Israel, deserved to be caged because he was…

Anthony Garcia may have gotten away with murder, were it not for his arrogance. Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide investigator, Kevin Lloyd made the discovery while sifting through photographs. He suddenly noticed the tattoo on Anthony Garcia, which resembled a crime scene familiar to him. The tattoo…

A Florida college student conducting a casual search on Google found out that he was wanted for murder. Zachary Garcia is a University of Florida student who works at a sandwich shop. The other Zachery Garcia (spelled with an “e” instead of an “a” before the ry) is a Florida teen accused of murder. After…

Zookeepers were astonished to find a gruesome scene when they first arrived for a day of work at Alice Springs Reptile center in Australia. The Zoo’s main attraction had been devouring many of the other animals who had apparently staged a breakout only to fall into the alligator’s enclosure. Surveillance…

In Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a relentless God, Francis Chan writes “In October 2006, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a man stormed an Amish school and killed several girls. The day after the shootings, many Amish people visited the shooter’s family to say they had forgiven him. That sort of forgiveness…

HEART In 1991, a hiker discovered a body sticking out of the snow in the Austria Alps. The follow-up investigation revealed that the body was a man in his forties who perished on the mountain approximately 5,000 years ago. After the discovery, many theories were advanced about how the man, nicknamed…