This week, Crime Library is cooking recipes created by inmates. Most of the involve creative uses of Ramen noodles, potato chips and other dry goods. Today, we made a back-to-basics version of Pad Thai.

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Nathaniel Bar-Jonah was suspected in the disappearance of young Zachary Ramsay, but there was insufficient evidence to convict him. However, Bar-Jonah was sentenced to 130 years for child molestation and sexual assault. He died in prison in 2008.

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Two women throw themselves to the floor after receiving life sentences for abusing to death a 3-year-old girl. A 19-year-old killer flies into a rage after being sentenced to death for the rape and execution-style killing of a young woman.

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College student Robbin Brandley was found dead, stabbed 41 times. Though police had many theories about the murderer’s identity, it would take 11 years and the capture of a serial killer to unravel the mystery of her violent death.

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From our friends at the Daily Dot: A recent undercover sting in Mobile, Ala., provides a window into the secret world of coded language pedophiles use online. And it’s shockingly simplistic.

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Fashion writer Christa Worthington was found dead in her Cape Cod home Jan. 6, 2002. The 46-year-old’s toddler daughter, Ava, 2 1/2, was clinging to her mother’s bloody body. Ava was physically unharmed. “Mommy fell down,” she said.

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The eccentric “homefree” hitchhiker who became a Youtube sensation after saving a woman from a “giant racist” is now accused of murder. In this below video, McGillvary describes the abuse he endured as a child. The audio comes from a radio interview he gave before his arrest.

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On May 22, 2002, Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted for his role the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963. The bombing killed four and injured over twenty more.

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The followers of familyradio.com have decided that the world would end on May 21, 2011. They are not the first to try to predict the end. The Heaven’s Gate cult believed that the end was tied to the Hale-Bopp comet and committed mass suicide to gain access to the space ship they believed was following it.

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Battleboro, North Carolina, woman Tiara Drake, an immature 24 year old, is facing attempted murder charges after poisoning her family’s favorite cheese in an act of retribution for their refusal to give her a piece the day before.

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