Listen to more stories on the Noa app. George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing ...

Four decades after prosecutors sent the wrong men to prison for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Long Island girl, DNA obtained from a discarded straw has led to the indictment of a new ...

NEW YORK -- Authorities on Long Island believe they have closed a murder case that had been open for more than 40 years. In November 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco disappeared after she was fired ...

Four decades after prosecutors sent the wrong men to prison for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Long Island girl, DNA obtained from a discarded straw has led to the indictment of a new suspect.

Prosecutors may have revealed the identity of the man accused of killing 16-year-old Theresa Fusco in 1984, but much else about him still remains a mystery. Richard Bilodeau, 63, pleaded not guilty on ...

Richard Bilodeau, 63, is accused of raping and killing 16-year-old Theresa Fusco, who was found dead near the roller rink where she worked on Long Island avid_creative/Getty A New York man has been ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — Four decades after prosecutors sent the wrong men to prison for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Long Island girl, DNA obtained from a discarded straw has led to the indictment of ...

This image, provided by the Nassau County District Attorney, in Mineola, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025, shows a cup with straw used by Richard Bilodeau. (Nassau County District Attorney via AP) ...

A man from Center Moriches has been arrested and charged with the 1984 cold case murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco in Lynbrook. Richard Bilodeau, 63, pleaded not guilty to two charges of ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

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