Samuel Israel, the hedge fund founder who went missing just as he was supposed to report to prison for 20 years, is reportedly in police custody after surrendering early this morning. The NY Times reports Israel had been in Southwick, Massachusetts where he "was talking to his mother on the phone when he walked into a local jail and surrendered to the United States Marshals task force." Israel, who was convicted of swindling hundreds of......

Authorities arrested the girlfriend of the fugitive hedge fund scammer yesterday. Debra Ryan reportedly confessed that she helped Sam Israel, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for swindling hundreds of millions from investors, plan his disappearance a week and a half ago. On June 10, Israel was supposed to report to a federal correctional facility in Massachusetts, but his empty GMC Envoy was found on the Bear Mountain Bridge. The words "suicide is......

After trying to parachute off of the Empire State Building in 2006, Jeb Corliss found himself in front of a judge; at first the charges were dismissed, but earlier this year he was charged with reckless endangerment. The misdemeanor could turn the daredevil into a caged bird for up to one year. However, the Eyewitness News has learned that some key evidence in his case has vanished! What's more, they report that it appears to......

A McDonald's on the corner of 56th and 8th in Manhattan is missing a Ronald -- but an aerial view of the area shows him safe and sound lounging on a private rooftop. Williamsboard posters report, "someone who lives in the six-story building next door took advantage of a second floor window that lets them out onto the McDonald's roof...". View the full shot after the jump.......

The search for a missing NJ woman led the police to a pond in the Charleston section of Staten Island, where a suitcase of bones were found. The bones are undergoing DNA testing to see if it's a match for Amy Giordano, who vanished last June. Brooklyn resident Rosario DiGirolamo was charged with the Giordano's murder. DiGirolamo, who is married, was involved with 27-year-old Giordano and they had a young son, who was found abandoned......

An appeals court ruled that a doctor who had been missing before September 11, 2001 died during the World Trade Center attacks. The family of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, last seen at Century 21 on September 10, had in courts for years trying to do so. Previously, a court-appointed guardian implied the 31-year-old doctor led a dangerous lifestyle, because she, per the Post, "frequented bars (including several bars that cater to women customers) and spent......

May 29, 2007 was the last time Stepha Henry, a John Jay honors graduate, was seen. The Brooklyn resident had been visiting an aunt in Miami when she went missing and as months went on, her mother quit her job and moved to Florida to search for Stepha while John Jay classmates and faculty held fund-raisers to help the family. Today, Miami-Dade detectives, along with members of the NYPD, arrested a man in New York......

Reader Stephen wrote us with a holiday-related request: I don't know how else to handle this. I called the police and they told me to keep them, and that if I turned them in to the police they'd just auction them off. Anyway, I found about $200 worth of DVDs at the Citibank ATM [below 23rd Street in Manhattan]. They were new, unopened in a Virgin Megastore bag. I left my number there but who......