by sumac | Dec 26, 2015 | True Crime Apologies
There’s this host of an Outdoor Channel show, who also does shooting tips for a shotgun company. While on a bear-hunting trip for the show, the star messed up in a big way, shot too many bears, and cooked up a scheme with the guides to make it look like it never...
by sumac | Nov 28, 2015 | True Crime Apologies
Hugo Solano was killed by a violent teenager. Left behind were his wife Ana Solano and their two children. When the teenager, Juan Martin Garcia, was on trial Ana Solano was asked what sentence she thought he should get. She didn’t know what to say. She said she...
by sumac | Sep 25, 2015 | Corporate Apologies, True Crime Apologies
It’s possible to be harmed by peanuts even if you don’t have a peanut allergy. In 2009 a widespread salmonella outbreak was traced back to the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). Hundreds of people got sick when they ate tainted peanut butter or products...
by sumac | Jul 14, 2015 | True Crime Apologies
Joseph Sledge stole some T-shirts from a department store. Shoplifting. Is a crime. In middle school, high school, and college, I knew kids who shoplifted. Naming no names. Little did we realize how that leads to a lifetime of suffering. For his evil deeds, Joseph...
by sumac | Jul 1, 2015 | True Crime Apologies, Youth apologizes
At Valle Verde Children’s Center, a day care center at Valle Verde Elementary School, the staff came in on a Monday morning and found their three rabbits were missing. The rabbits had been in a secure hutch, and the hutch was behind a chain-link fence. Yet they...
by sumac | Jun 29, 2015 | Religious Apologies, True Crime Apologies
We weren’t eager to cover Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s apology. The crime – the Boston Marathon bombing – was so terrible. We’re both against capital punishment. The whole business makes us queasy. But it seemed important to look at it. How can one apologize...
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