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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, which raised awareness about missing children and led to television shows like "America's Most Wanted," has been solved, authorities said Tuesday. At a crowded news conference in the police...

The way a body is disposed of, and where, can unlock the secrets of a death even if the remains themselves are little more than hair and bones, forensic experts said Friday. "Sometimes you don't find evidence of homicidal acts," said Jeffrey Jentzen,...

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There were seven wakes. Seven funerals. For nine days in a row, residents of this town of nearly 2,000 wore the same suits and black dresses each day, and carefully hung them up at night to wear again the next. They all knew -- or were related to -- the...

The buzzards led Nick Bursio to his prized calf. He found the body just over a rise in the field, with a bullet hole in its left shoulder, near the heart. Bursio had heard of animals killed by rustlers for their meat. But not until that May morning had...

The two break-in artists were caught in the act. Steve Searles had them cornered right outside the crime scene, high in the branches of a towering Jeffrey pine. "Bad bears!" he growled up at the 100-pound cubs, who peered back innocently. "What are you...

'Hannibal Rising: A Novel' Thomas Harris (Delacorte: 336 pp., $27.95) In "The Philosophy of Horror," Noel Carroll argues that monsters violate our core conceptual frameworks. By merging otherwise exclusive states of being — zombies, for example,...

Will Watkins is sitting at a table outside the South Shores Tavern and Patio Bar in Lake Worth, jotting down notes for new comedy material he intends to try out tonight. The set list he has scribbled on his pad reads like this: pregnant suicide calls...

3 stars (out of four) It's about time. Slumming off-Broadway and taking supporting roles in mediocre movies for the past four years, Edward Norton has finally returned to leading-man form in the reconstructed Western "Down in the Valley," writer-director...

The adolescents in "12 and Holding" must navigate a world that no longer seems fair or straightforward after the death of a friend. Beginning to perceive the shades of grey in life, the young characters thus begin to make difficult, risky or even criminal...

Thirty-one years ago, a serial killer slipped a letter detailing some of his murders into a library book, then called a Wichita newspaper and told a columnist where to find it. In misspelled, rambling prose, the letter writer claimed responsibility for...

What Hollywood gives, Hollywood takes away. Studio filmmaking can make an event as fantastical as an alien invasion look like reality, and it can make something that actually took place feel as fake as crocodile tears. Which is what happens with "North...