A 34-year-old police officer on South Korea's most famous resort island allegedly closed missing persons cases with fabricated records, and at least two of those missing people turned up dead weeks later. South Korean authorities have charged the officer, identified only by the surname Bu, with forging public electronic records, obstruction of official duties, and […] The post South Korean officer charged with falsifying missing persons cases later found dead on Jeju Island appeared first on American Almanac .
A 34-year-old police officer on South Korea's most famous resort island allegedly closed missing persons cases with fabricated records, and at least two of those missing people turned up dead weeks later. South Korean authorities have charged the officer, identified only by the surname Bu, with forging public electronic records, obstruction of official duties, and dereliction of duty after an investigation revealed he closed cases without evidence, deleted files, and lied to families about the fate of their missing relatives. Bu, assigned to the Jeju West Police Station's missing persons investigation team, handled 298 cases between March 2025 and July 2026. He closed 25 of them. Four bodies were discovered on Jeju Island between August…Open
Harvard Medical School agreed to a $53 million settlement with families of body donors whose remains were stolen and sold on the black market by the school's own morgue manager, a scheme that included selling human skin to be tanned into leather. Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, ran what federal […] The post Harvard pays $53 million after former morgue manager stole and sold donated body parts appeared first on American Almanac .
Harvard Medical School agreed to a $53 million settlement with families of body donors whose remains were stolen and sold on the black market by the school's own morgue manager, a scheme that included selling human skin to be tanned into leather. Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, ran what federal prosecutors described as a years-long operation: removing brains, skin, hands, and faces from cadavers donated for medical research and shipping them to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. He pulled the parts before the bodies were sent for cremation. The families who donated their loved ones' remains had no idea. Harvard, by its own admission, cannot determine precisely which donors' remains Lodge stole. The…Open
A 24-year-old American student from Houston says she was sexually assaulted during a group holiday in Vietnam, and that local police and the suspect's wealthy family tried to push her into settling quietly. Vietnamese authorities have now charged a 23-year-old man with rape after Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam refused to back down, rejected repeated offers […] The post American student alleges rape in Vietnam, says police and suspect's family pressured her to stay silent appeared first on American Almanac .
A 24-year-old American student from Houston says she was sexually assaulted during a group holiday in Vietnam, and that local police and the suspect's wealthy family tried to push her into settling quietly. Vietnamese authorities have now charged a 23-year-old man with rape after Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam refused to back down, rejected repeated offers of money, and fought through weeks of institutional resistance to get her case on the record. The charge came only after Tam's father reached out to the office of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, prompting belated action from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Tam, whose family moved to the United States when she was five, had returned to Vietnam in May for a banking internship. On July 4, she joined a group of…Open
AI:The Trump Department of Justice has released a scathing report condemning California for its "unacceptable" failure to protect female inmates from sexual assault perpetrated by prison staff. This damning investigation confirms what the state’s catastrophic management of women's prisons has signaled for far too long: an institutionalized culture of negligence where predatory behavior was allowed to flourish while officials turned a blind eye. While the establishment press remains largely silent or provides nothing but hollow platitudes regarding "reforms," this federal report exposes the reality that California has effectively abandoned the rule of law in its correctional facilities, creating a vacuum of accountability that leaves women…Open
In a new report, former Interlochen students detail some 70 allegations of sexual abuse by nearly 50 adults employed or affiliated with the school. One of the former students tells his story to NPR.
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