A middle-school principal in Alabama was among four suspects arrested in connection with a decade-old triple murder in Georgia, authorities said Friday. Keante Harris, 45, was arrested on three counts of malice murder without incident in connection to the murders that happened in Union City, Georgia, in January 2013, the Clayton County Police Department said. Harris is an assistant principal …
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Utah squatter suspected in Dylan Rounds' death pleads guilty to murder charge
The Utah squatter suspected of killing a 19-year-old who struck out on his own farm two years ago admitted to shooting the teen in the head on a rainy day as he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Brigham City court Wednesday. James Brenner, 60, had long been suspected of killing the teen, but evidence was scarce until investigators …
Read More »Former Gambian interior minister sentenced for crimes against humanity by Swiss court
Switzerland’s top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in repression committed by the west African country’s security forces under its longtime dictator, a legal advocacy group said. Prosecutors had been seeking a life sentence for Ousman Sonko, Gambia’s interior minister from 2006 …
Read More »Authorities identify 78-year-old Florida man accused of fatally striking teen with boat
Investigators have identified the man who was operating the boat that fatally struck a 15-year-old girl off a South Florida beach and then left the area, but no criminal charges have been filed, according to a report released Wednesday. The 78-year-old man owns the Coral Gables home where Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers found and seized the docked …
Read More »Palestinian man who fatally stabbed 2 teens on train sentenced to life in prison by German court
A court in Germany convicted a man of murder and sentenced him to life in prison Wednesday for carrying out a fatal stabbing on a train last year. The state court in Itzehoe convicted the 34-year-old, who has been identified only as Ibrahim A. in line with German privacy rules, of murder and attempted murder, German news agency dpa reported. …
Read More »Georgia man killed girlfriend, disposed of body with family help after she discovered secret marriage: police
A Georgia mother was strangled to death, then burned in Tennessee March 17 by her boyfriend after she confronted him about secretly marrying another woman in January, investigators alleged this week. Michale Edwards, 23, has been charged with murder in the death of Briana Winston, Clayton County police said at a Monday press conference. Edwards’ wife Brieanna Phillips-Edwards, his 18-year-old …
Read More »Killers in Mexico 'can look like anyone' as cartels use women, kids as assassins, PI warns
With the high-profile murders of three surfers in Mexico grabbing headlines ahead of the busy American summer travel season, a private investigator is warning that killers in the country may not be who you expect. Cartels are increasingly using women and children to carry out violent acts, Jay Armes III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and works cases all …
Read More »Son suspected of killing own mother, 2 sisters in Mother's Day massacre shot dead hundreds of miles away
A Mother’s Day massacre left a woman and two of her daughters dead in Mississippi, officials said. The suspect died later hundreds of miles away. According to the Ridgeland Police Department, a man later identified as Ivory James Welch III, was the lead suspect in the death of his mother and two sisters when he fled town and the state, …
Read More »Surfers' deaths in Mexico 'eerily' similar to San Diego couple's murders: 'Anyone can be killed for anything'
The case of three surfers killed in Mexico “is eerily similar” to the murders of a San Diego couple in the same Mexican state four years ago, a private investigator said. Jay Armes III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and works cases all over the world, immediately remembered Ian Hirschsohn and Kathy Harvey, a couple in their 70s who …
Read More »Scott Peterson prosecutors lay out 'overwhelming evidence' against killer's new appeal in 337-page filing
A California jury found Scott Peterson guilty of murdering his 27-year-old pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, after a five-month trial in 2004. Over the years, he’s had multiple failed appeals but succeeded in having his death penalty overturned in favor of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. But his latest appeal, taken up by the Los …
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