The Sacramento prison psychologist who, along with a sinister friend, faked her own home-invasion rape, all in a failed effort to get her husband to move them to a better neighborhood, was sentenced Friday. In a plea bargain, Laurie Ann Martinez to "five years' probation and 180 days on electronic monitoring," reports The Chronicle. "She also must pay more than $4,000 restitution for the police investigation." more ›

Deborah Perez, the sanity-estranged woman who claimed that she was the Zodiac Killer's daughter on Wednesday has another outrageous claim regarding her DNA makeup: she also alleged to be the illegitimate, biological daughter of John F. Kennedy. more ›

Last November's harrowing story about a Glen Park woman being raped twice by the same man, it seems, was just that: a story. It turns out that she fabricated the tale of first being raped as she walked from the Glen Park BART station on Bosworth Street, and then assaulted again by the same man at gunpoint just few days later in her garage. The victim-cum-suspect has yet to have any false-report charges filed... more ›