Runners-up: Brian Nichols, Phil Spector, a politician and little girl Caylee Anthony
Runners-up for top story of the month:
Brian Nichols, found guilty of murder, armed robbery and kidnapping after launching a courtroom rampage in 2005 that left a judge, a court reporter and two law enforcement officers dead. Nichols was on trial for rape when he broke out of a courthouse holding cell by overpowering a guard and seizing her gun. After committing mayhem in the court he hijacked a car and fled to the apartment of a young woman, Ashley Smith Robinson, forcing himself in at gunpoint. She calmed him down by giving him drugs"the first and only mention of which was in the 14th paragraph of the article reporting the jury's finding"and reading to him from pastor Rick Warren's A ...
