How a child’s question – such as “Where’s mommy?” – in the wake of a crime or traumatic event is answered can either help a child cope, or snowball into violent, depressing adulthood, studies show. “The child may see the event as an intense threat to his or her safety and will typically experience a high level of fear or …
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Attorneys for two brothers who were sentenced to die in a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre” will argue Monday for a formal resentencing hearing, the latest in a long series of appeals. How the sentencing was handled has long been a point of contention because the two brothers — Jonathan and Reginald Carr — had a joint hearing …
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A woman was killed during an on-campus shooting at Delaware State University over the weekend, and a manhunt for the suspect or suspects is underway. The victim is an 18-year-old woman, who hasn’t been identified yet. She wasn’t a registered student, according to a statement by the school president. “Violence of any kind, particularly gun violence, happens too often on …
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Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense will have to prove that stargazing was a “regular habit” for the suspect accused of killing four college students in November 2022. Defense attorneys for Kohberger, 29, said in recent court filings that the murder suspect was out stargazing that morning when Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, …
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An Arkansas teen is in custody on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of a high school senior outside a party early Sunday following a high school prom. Donterious Stephens, 19, of Helena, turned himself in to authorities Sunday afternoon in the shooting death of Lorenzo Harrison III, 18, an Arkansas State Police spokeswoman said. Harrison, …
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A sheriff’s deputy in Idaho has died after he was shot during a traffic stop on Saturday night, authorities said. Deputy Tobin Bolter, 27, pulled over a gray Chevy Suburban in Boise just before 9 p.m. and was shot as he approached the driver’s window, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office said. The driver, a 65-year-old man who was wanted on …
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A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case of Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, who was accused of second-degree murder in connection to the death of a Mexican national found fatally shot on his borderland ranch in January 2023. The jury began deliberating April 18. After days of being unable to reach a verdict, the judge overseeing …
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One person of interest has been arrested and another is wanted as investigators continue looking into the deadly armed carjacking in Florida that authorities say claimed the life of Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas. Jordanish Torres-Garcia, 28, was arrested Friday afternoon by U.S. Marshals Services on an unrelated case, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office announced. Investigators noticed that Torres-Garcia was …
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Forty years after she left her newborn to die in a wooded New Jersey area on Christmas Eve, Mary Catherine Snyder Crumlich was living a suburban life in South Carolina with her husband and sons, social media shows. But earlier this month, 57-year-old Crumlich was sentenced to a year behind bars for manslaughter in the death of the infant Mendham …
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More than five decades after a decorated World War II veteran-turned-milkman was murdered “execution-style” on his route, testimony from his killer’s ex-wife solved the cold case. Hiram “Ross” Grayam had been shot multiple times when investigators searching the area via airplane spotted his milk truck deep in the woods in Vero Beach, Florida, in April 1968, the Indian River County …
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