Lacey Spears: "Baby Killer" Tortured With Salt In Prison

In 2015, Lacey Spears charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter following the death of her five-year-old son, Garnett.

Now, Spears is serving a 20-year sentence for allegedly poisoning her son with high levels of salt, a crime which is coming back to haunt the 28-year-old Kentucky native.

The former mommy blogger gave a prison interview to true crime author and biographer John Glatt for his upcoming book, My Sweet Angel, in which she described the kind of torture other inmates are putting her through.

“It’s been brutal here. Crimes involving children are considered the worst here,” Spears said, according to Radar Online.

“I hear them talking behind my back, calling me ‘baby killer,’ ‘child killer,’ and ‘mother of the year.’ But I know it’s not who I am.”

This doesn’t come as a surprise, given that it’s common knowledge that those accused of crimes against children are usually assaulted by fellow inmates.

“It’s been very hard, adjusting to being here,” Spears told Glatt.

“You always have to look behind your back, and I don’t trust anyone. I don’t have any friends, but I have people to talk to.”

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Spears’ sister, Rebecca recalls stories from her incarcerated sibling, in particular the bullying.

“When she walked through the line [in the cafeteria] and it would be her turn to pick up the tray [someone] would put salt packets over her meal and then hand the tray to her,” Rebecca Spears said.

Spears was suspected of suffering from Munchausen by proxy, and was offered to go into protective custody (which would force her to spend 23 hours per day in solitude), but she declined.

Spears maintains her innocence, and at one point claimed that it was the hospital’s fault that he died, not hers.

“I didn’t hurt him,” Spears told 48 Hours‘ Troy Roberts.

“I never poisoned him with salt.”

Garnett Spears passed away in January 2014.

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Christina Grimmie: Killer Believed She Was His "Soul Mate"

The case involving Kevin James Loilbl and his victim is closed.

On June 10th, Loibl approached 22-year-old Christina Grimmie while she was signing autographs after her Orlando concert.

Armed with two handguns, ammunition and a hunting knife, Loibl shot Grimmie before being tackled to the ground by her older brother, Marcus.

Loibl then turned the gun on himself.

According to police reports obtained by CNN, family members said that Loibl had “no history of mental illness,” but did live “like a hermit.”

Because he had “an aversion to light,” the St. Petersburg, FL resident would cover his bedroom windows with tin foil and heavy curtain.

Nor did the 27-year-old have a criminal record.  However, police were called to Loibl’s father’s home twice in 2013 and 2014 because of a domestic dispute between him and his father’s girlfriend.  

No charges were ever pressed.

One gentleman, Cory Dennington, described himself to police as possibly Loibl’s “only friend in the world.”  The two had known each other for 15 years.

Dennington’s statements were crucial to the case, since he gave police background on Loibl’s behavior and his actions leading up to the murder.

Dennington noticed that his friend had “become fixated” on The Voice contestant over the last year or so.

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Loibl told Dennighton that “he watched everything having to do with her,” spending “most of his waking hours watching Christina on YouTube as well as constantly monitoring her social media accounts.”

What’s strange is that Loibl himself did not have an account on any platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc).  

Though an athiest, Loibl had allegedly told Dennington that Grimmie’s faith changed the way he saw religion and “helped him to see the world in a different way.”

Loibl had reportedly told Dennington that if there was indeed a God, “he has seen it in her.”

When Loibl wasn’t working at a local Best Buy, the was on the computer in his room, family members told police.

At work, Loibl would be in the back, so that he wasn’t interacting with customers.  Loibl’s supervisor, Luke Dahl, described him as “socially awkward” and “detached.”

Prior to the murder, Loibl underwent an extreme makeouver.  He lost fifty pounds, had Lasik Surgery, got hair implants and whitened his teeth – all for Grimmie, Dennington recalled.

Dennington grew concerned about his friend’s obsession with Grimmie, and tried to talk rationally to him.

Loibl was furious, and refused to believe that his plan to meet and fall in love with Grimmie would never work.  

In fact, he referred to the singer as his “soul mate.”

In the days before the murder, Loibl returned a few magazines to Dennington at work.

“I love you brother,” he told Dennigton, adding that he “was tired and ready to ascend.”

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Christina Grimmie Killer: Scary New Details Emerge

Frightening new details have emerged about Kevin Loibl.

Loibl is the man who approached Christina Grimmie after a concert she put on in Orlando last Friday night.

According to various outlets and eye witness accounts, Loibl pulled out a gun upon getting close to the former Voice contestant and shot her dead.

Others in the vicinity may also have been Loibl’s victims if not for Grimmie’s brother, Marcus, who wrestled the shooter to the ground prior to Loibl turning the gun on himself and pulling the trigger.

It was a heinous, unspeakable, incomprehensible crime.

We may never know what motivated Loibl to take Grimmie’s life, but TMZ has uncovered disturbing new pieces of information about the killer.

According to former co-workers, Loibl was a deranged fan of the singer’s.

He was infatuated with Grimmie, listening to her music at work and claiming he would someday be her husband.

But that’s not all:

Loibl also changed his appearance to be more appealing to the artist. He reportedly got hair transplants. He underwent Lasik eye surgery. He became a Vegan in order to lose weight.

We’re talking really scary stuff here.

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Those who worked at Best Buy with Loibl say he attended one of Grimmie’s shows in March and told everyone that he met the rising star.

He also claimed to have played games online with Christina. 

A source close to the late singer denies Grimmie having ever had contact with Loibl prior to their fatal meeting, however.

Since Grimmie’s death, it’s come out that she was likely dating her producer.

TMZ concludes that Loibl was teased about this relationship by his colleagues, as they taunted him over having no shot to ever date Christina.

This supposedly served to enrage the clearly-unbalanced Loibl.

And it now seems as if he turned this anger into some form of warped, misguided hatred for the artist, shooting her in the head before taking his own life.

Christina Grimmie was only 22 years old at the time of her death.

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Ariel Winter Shows Off Killer Curves For Prom Night

If anyone deserves to feel beautiful at her prom, it’s this girl.

Last week, Modern Family‘s Ariel Winter shared photos from her high school prom on Instagram.

And WOW.

Winter looked incredible in a form-fitting, strapless lace gown as she posed with friends before the dance.

In 2015, Winter underwent a breast reduction. 

After, she penned an essay for Time, in which she explained that her cup size was incredibly disproportionate to the rest of her body.

“You physically hurt. You can’t find clothes that fit right,” Winter wrote.

“I couldn’t find a cute bathing suit. Everything looked like I was trying to be ‘sexy.’  It didn’t help that I didn’t look like any of my friends my age.

“People may find it hard to believe, but when I got my breast-reduction surgery last year, it wasn’t because of the mean comments online. It wasn’t because I didn’t like how I looked,” she clarified.

“Having so much weight on my frame was affecting me psychologically. I was uncomfortable and unhappy. I chose surgery because of how I felt, not because of what anyone else thought.”

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In the end, it was the smartest decision she had made in her life thus far.

“Afterward, I automatically felt so much happier and just better physically. My back and shoulders didn’t hurt anymore!” she recalled.

Though it sounds trivial to anyone with a normal chest size, to be able to try on clothes that were once off-limits meant the world to Winter.

“The first thing I wanted to do was go clothing shopping because I was so excited to be able to find things that fit properly instead of hiding in a baggy sweater. That meant the world to me.”

Since then, Winter has proudly showed off her body on Instagram.

Winter will attend UCLA in the fall.

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Pretty Little Liars Season 6 Episode 15 Recap: A Killer Threat

We learned something very interesting about Aria’s father on Pretty Little Liars Season 6 Episode 15.

That he’s guilty of murder? Nope.

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But Byron is guilty… of being in love!

He opened up to his daughter on this week’s episode of the Freeform (we’ll never get used to writing that) drama, saying he and Ella are back together.

Hooray! 

That news made us very happy, as did some other romantic revelations from the hour, namely that Spencer and Caleb are still doing quite well, despite all the craziness taking place around them.

Let’s all hope pray whatever Caleb finds in Yvonne’s “Hastings opposition research” folder doesn’t change that.

As for Emily and Alison? That’s bit harder to say.

We may need to go back and watch Pretty Little Liars online in order to gauge where these two stand, considering Ali offered to take Emily to her egg donation procedure and then they even held hands in the hospital.

So all signs points to romance, right?

However, following Emily’s assertion that Sara Harvey attacked her after surgery, we have clue what to think.

Was it all a hallucination? Or is Alison – who claimed to have been in Emily’s room the entire time – secretly working with Sara?

Hey! Don’t scoff! This is Pretty Little Liars! Far weirder and unexpected things have happened.

Also suspicious of Sara, Aria and Spencer snuck into her room at the Radley, hoping they could find evidence that tied her to Charlotte’s murder.

Alas, although they didn’t necessarily do so, they did learn that Sara’s hotel room used to be Charlotte’s room when Radley was a sanitarium.

And then there was a secret exit. Hmmm….

We end by wondering just whose wedding will take place on Pretty Little Liars Season 6 and by giving A some props.

This is easily her best threat of all-time:

Steven Avery: Was He Framed By a Notorious Serial Killer?!

Ever since Making a Murderer first captivated Netflix viewers back in December, hundreds of theories about the murder of Teresa Halbach and the arrest and conviction of Steven Avery have surfaced online.

Avery himself has claimed to know who actually murdered Halbach.

His mother has stated that she believes Halbach is still alive, and the whole thing was an elaborate con designed to put her son behind bars.

Now, a former FBI cold case expert is offering his own shocking theory – and he’s compiled some pretty compelling evidence to support it.

In a recent interview with Radar Online, former special agent John Cameron reveals that he believes Avery was framed by a notorious serial killer named Edward Wayne Edwards.

“Steven Avery is completely innocent,” Cameron tells the website. “He was set up by Edwards.”

It may sound more than a little far-fetched, but Cameron insists that he’s done the legwork and that his story at least deserves further investigation:

Cameron says the theory fist occurred to him when he realized that Edwards – who murdered at least five people at random – between 1977 and 2009 – was living less than an hour away from the Avery impound lot where Halbach’s body was found at the time of her murder.

Edwards was sentenced to death in 2011, but died of natural causes before he could be executed.

Several law enforcement agents who worked on the case claim that Edwards frequently hinted that he had killed several women without ever being connected to the crimes.

“He had done exactly the same thing in California in 1955 when he kidnapped and murdered a doctor’s 14-year-old daughter called Stephanie Bryan,” Cameron says.

“He hid her body for three months and then planted the girl’s property in a man named Burton Abbott’s basement and in his garage.

“Abbott was convicted on circumstantial evidence but always protested that he was framed. He was executed at San Quentin minutes before a stay of execution was delivered.”

“When I first started watching Making a Murderer, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing…it’s the same kind of setup,”

Cameron says he believes that Edwards can even be seen lurking at the crime scene in a shot from the Netflix documentary series:

“It looks like Edwards to me,” Cameron says. “He got off on [returning to the scene of the crime].”

Unfortunately, Edwards passed away before he could complete a memoir in which he reportedly planned to confess to all of his previous killings.

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Steven Avery Issues First Statement About Making a Murderer: The Killer is Still Out There!

Last month, the 10-hour Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer became a surprise hit for the streaming service, generating a powerful response from viewers and spawning dozens of conspiracy theories online.

While it initially seemed that the story wrapped up eight years ago, when Steven Avery was (perhaps wrongly) convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach, several new developments have emerged in recent weeks that may have left the filmmakers with enough material for a sequel – and Avery with enough new evidence for a new trial.

First we learned that Avery shared his theory on who killed Halbach back in 2009, but the information was ignored by investigators.

Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that a juror in the case had ties to the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department – one of many conflicts of interest  – and possible instances of corruption – in Avery’s trial.

Now, Avery has filed an appeal and landed himself a new, high-profile lawyer in Chicago-based attorney Kathleen Zellner, a specialist in such cases.

While it remains to be seen if Avery will get a new trial, he and Zellner are already hard at work convincing the public of his innocence.

First, Zellner tweeted a letter from special prosecutor Ken Kratz in which the DA asks Avery to confess so that he cash in by writing a book.

Now, a reporter in Milwaukee is sharing some of the information contained in a letter that she received from Avery, which constitutes the 53-year-old’s first communication with the public since Making a Murderer made him famous.

“The real killer is still out there,” Avery wrote to WISN reporter Colleen Henry.

“Who is he stalking now? I am really innocent of this case and that is the truth!!! The truth will set me free!!!!!!!”

The full contents of the letter have not been released to the public, but Avery reportedly spends much of the three-page missive responding to recent allegations of abuse from ex-fiancee Jodi Stachowski.

Stachowski supported Avery throughout his trial, but recently did an about-face and gave several interviews in which she stated that she believes he is guilty.

It is not known at this time if Henry will eventually publish Avery’s letter in its entirety.

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Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian Flaunt Killer Abs in Gym Selfie

“If you’ve got it, flaunt it” goes the old adage, and no one follows this rule more than the Kardashians.

Sisters Khloe and Kourtney took to Instagram yesterday to post a twinning shot in which they pull down their spandex waist bands to reveal their very toned tummies.

“Gym selfie with the MILF,” read Khloe’s caption, while Kourtney wrote simply, “Double gym selfie.”

It’s no secret that both women hit the gym hard following their breakups with Lamar Odom and Scott Disick, and the sisters were even in competition to host the new reality show Revenge Body.

Khloe wound up getting the gig – and it’s one she almost seems born to do.

After her separation from Lamar, she went into “beast mode” with her workouts and has posted multiple photos and videos of her exercise regimen to social media.

The result? A leaner, more trim figure that she’s been showing off like mad of late. 

Even comedian Amy Schumer joked during her SNL monologue, “Khloe, she like, lost half her body weight. She just, she lost it — she lost a Kendall.”

But Kourt ain’t doing so bad herself.

She recently posed in a totally nude photo shoot for a fine art gallery in which she shows off every inch of her svelte physique.

“I work out every single day, so, I feel like, why not?” she said on her decision to do the shoot.

The ladies seem to be sending a loud and clear message to their exes:

Suck it.

View Slideshow: 29 Photos of Kourtney Kardashian Showing Scott Disick What He’s Missing

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt on Lauren Conrad: B!tch is a Cold-Hearted KILLER!

The Hills’ gruesome twosome, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, are still warring with Lauren Conrad, who they describe as a ruthless, bitter individual.

And a sex tape star.

In a new interview with Complex, the dastardly duo reveals that their infamous reality TV beef endures to this day, and they stand by their stories.

In 2008, rumors circulated that a Lauren Conrad sex tape co-starring her bad boy co-star Jason Wahler exited. It would be the Holy Grail of sex tapes.

Conrad denied it, then produced one of the epic quotes in Hills history when she called out Heidi for spreading the alleged lie: “You know what you did!”

Montag maintains that the Conrad sex tape does exist, however.

“Today, I’d be like, ‘Bitch, you know what you did,"” she said.

Spencer was even more blunt in his assessment of LC:

“Lauren is a cold-hearted killer. That’s what people don’t get. She will cut you in your sleep. She tried to destroy us. If you want to throw missiles?”

“I’m throwing a nuke. This is how I operate.”

Pratt also blamed Conrad for the fact that he currently isn’t on speaking terms with either his own mother or his sister, Stephanie Pratt.

“My mom’s a Lauren supporter,” he dished.

“She’s like, ‘Mark Cuban says on Shark Tank that you shouldn’t help your kids.’ I’m like, ‘Mark Cuban can go jump off a freaking cliff for all I care."”

Whatever that means. Heidi, for her part, seems to have moved on a little bit more from The Hills and this whole charade than Spencer has.

In fact, in a February 2015 episode of Marriage Boot Camp, Heidi “forgave” Lauren for ruining her life in a cathartic reality TV moment for the ages.

Moving stuff.

Walter Palmer: Cecil the Lion"s Killer Will NOT Face Criminal Charges!

Over the summer, the Internet flipped out over what appeared to be the unlawful killing of the beloved beast known as Cecil the Lion.

Cecil was a major attraction at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, and had long been part of an Oxford conservation study.

In June, he was lured out of the sanctuary, shot with a bow and arrow and tracked form more than 40 hours before eventually being shot, skinned and decapitated.

When park officials found his body, they noted that his tracking collar had been removed, thus indicating that whoever killed him was well aware that this was no ordinary lion.

In July, a Minnesota dentist named Walter Palmer admitted to killing Cecil and incurred the wrath of animal lovers the world over.

Palmer was forced into hiding and temporarily closed his dental practice. There was a time when it looked as though he might be extradited and wind up serving jail time in Zimbabwe.

To the shock of millions, however, it now seems that Palmer will not face any sort of criminal charges as a result of killing Cecil.

TMZ is reporting that Palmer has been cleared of any wrongdoing by Zimbabwe’s environmental minister.

An investigation revealed that Palmer had filed the proper papers and had “legal authority to conduct the hunt.”

A happy day for Palmer and his family, no doubt, but a sad one for those who hold Cecil’s memory close to their hearts.

Freaked Out Fishermen -- Killer Whales Chase Fishing Boat (VIDEO)

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Orcas are called killer whales for a reason … so when they’re pissed off and you’re in their turf, you better hightail it out of there … just like what these fishermen had to do.

Two fishermen were in for the scare of their lives while fishing in San Diego, CA last week … having to escape from a pod of irritated orcas.

They say there were about 30 killer whales surrounding them before they were forced to jet back to shore … with a few of them actually chasing their boat.

And we thought sharks were main things to worry about in the ocean.

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How to Get Away With Murder Promo: A Killer Reveal

According to the first official trailer for How to Get Away With Murder Season 2, Rebecca"s killer will be revealed on the September 24 premiere of this crazy awesome ABC drama.

But that won"t even be the biggest "OMG moment" of the night.

The 30-second teaser hypes Viola Davis as an Emmy nominee and offers us a look at all the homicidal suspects, while also featuring Annalise screaming at someone for being a "monster."

Nothing else of note is revealed about How to Get Away with Murder Season 2 Episode 1, however, meaning we"ll need to tune in to find out what the heck producer Shonda Rhimes has up her sleeve next.

Oh well. Twist our arm. We"ll be there.