Virginia police on Tuesday announced a second arrest in connection with a 2023 double-murder case in the idyllic Washington, D.C., suburb of Herndon. “Early last year, the double homicide of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan shook our entire community. Today, I am pleased to announce that due to the hard work of police and prosecutors, the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office has …
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Authorities in California have arrested a woman that was initially believed to be the victim of a home invasion that resulted in the death of her boyfriend, as she has been charged in his murder. Pleasanton police said they arrested Kennedy Stith, 27, on Sept. 12, amid an investigation into the death of her boyfriend Edevion White, 32, who was …
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Chilling video showed a Mississippi teen murder suspect’s nonchalant attitude after allegedly shooting and killing her mother, with the girl seen texting following the act. The kitchen surveillance footage shown during the murder trial of the now 15-year-old Carly Gregg, captured the moments leading up to and following the alleged murder of her mom, Ashley Smylie, on March 19. Gregg …
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A Texas grand jury last week indicted the two suspects in 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray’s June murder in Houston. Franklin Pena, 26, and Johan Martinez-Rangel, 22, were indicted on capital murder charges in connection with Nungaray’s murder, Harris County court records show. Documents say Pena and Martinez-Rangel kidnapped the 12-year-old and caused her death by applying pressure to her neck. Prosecutors …
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Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney revealed new information about the Gilgo Beach serial slayings on Monday, as a multi-agency task force continues to dig into unsolved cold case murders following the indictment of local architect Rex Heuermann in connection with a half-dozen slayings in the same area. In the months after 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert placed a panicked 911 call …
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A 30-year-old native of Honduras who had illegally been living in the U.S. has been charged in a fatal wreck that killed an Arkansas woman earlier this month. Maynor Yair Sorto-Herrera was arrested on Sept. 9 by the Arkansas State Police for the crash that occurred the morning prior. State police say Sorto-Herrera was driving a 2008 Ford F150 when …
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Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer accused of murdering at least a dozen western tourists traveling through Asia in the 1970s, is now a free man and sharing his story in a new televised interview. “If you follow Mr. Sobhraj … that’s his modus operandi, he likes to have the attention put on him,” Jackie Malton, retired detective chief inspector …
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An Alabama man who co-founded a biker gang called the “Seven Deadly Sins” has been convicted of gunning down seven people – some of whom were members of the motorcycle club – and a dog. Frederic Allen Rogers, 26, admitted to killing the four men among the seven victims, investigators testified at trial. Jurors recommended a sentence of life in …
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A Florida mother who police say was fatally stabbed by her 17-year-old son on Sunday posted lyrics online taken from Taylor Swift’s song “It’s Time to Go” in a haunting final message just hours before she was killed. Catherine Griffith, 39,uploaded an image of a remote footbridge leading into a forest captioned with the lyrics to the song the day …
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This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). When Theresa DeLucia, a 95-year-old mother of four from New York’s Long Island, died last month, she had already laid out her wishes in a last will and testament more than a decade …
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