A 52-year-old housewife from Brazil first stabbed her husband, then chopped off his dead body into small pieces to boil and fry it before hiding it into plastic bags in her house. A 15-member jury found Rosanita Nery dos Santos guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos. The accident took place on June 23, 2005 in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. The matter came into picture when police received an anonymous phone call saying that the woman has hid body parts in her house.

A 78-year-old man from Fountain Valley, California reportedly stabbed and injured his 68-year-old wife with an ax after the couple had an argument a day before. Police have charged Abdel Herbawi with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his wife with an ax as she prayed at their house on Monday. If convicted, Herbawi, who is being held at Orange County Jail on $1 million bail, could face life in prison. The charges on him include torture, domestic battery and aggravated assault.

Two men have been charged for torturing a man they thought had been a police informant. Compounding the crime, it turns out the man they tortured was the wrong person. Mitchell Buie and Eduardo Lebron kept Charles Windham in their Daytona Beach home for more than 24 hours while they sliced him with a kitchen cleaver. The men also held a shotgun to his head and told him they would kill him.

On January 10, 2007, the FBI hosted its first workshop, "FBI - Crime Essential for Writers" at the Federal Building in Westwood. Betsy Glick, FBI public affairs specialist, is one of the creators of the workshop. According to her, the FBI has aided in the content in over 659 projects in film, books, and television.

A British noise pollution group has urged for legal action against some stores that are forcing everyone to listen to the same Christmas music over and over. The UK Noise Association and labor unions called the repeated carols as "torture" to the ears and asked for a change. According to Paul Clarke, spokesman for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, Usdaw, "It's an issue that has been brought to our attention. "