An 85-year-old Idaho mother who shot and killed a home intruder committed a “justifiable homicide” that is “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have heard of,” Bingham County Prosecuting Attorney Ryan Jolley stated in an incident review. The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Derek Condon, entered the home Christine Jenneiahn shares with her disabled son around 2 a.m. …
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O.J. Simpson, who broke into the public eye as a star NCAA running back at the University of Southern California and became a public pariah decades later when he was charged with fatally stabbing his ex-wife and her friend, has died at 76 years old. Nicknamed “Juice” on the field, he won a Heisman Trophy, spent 11 seasons in the …
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A Wyoming teenager is being hailed as a hero after he was stabbed to death outside a shopping mall, reportedly while protecting his girlfriend. Casper police detained two juveniles, 15-year-old Jarreth JoseFlee Plunkett and 15-year-old Dominique Antonio Richard Harris, in connection with the April 7 stabbing death of 14-year-old Robert “Bobby” Maher at the Eastridge Mall. Both suspects are being …
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Lawyers for the Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student accused of massacring four University of Idaho undergrads in a home invasion stabbing told the judge Wednesday that they “firmly” believe their client is innocent. Bryan Kohberger, a 29-year-old from Pennsylvania, returned to the Latah County courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, for an afternoon hearing on defense efforts for a change of …
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Students at the University of Cincinnati have banded together to create the Cincy Crime Stoppers Instagram page to alert students about incidents around campus. A description for the Cincy Crime Stoppers says the page is for “Bearcats who live off-campus and have been a victim of a crime” to “send in anonymous tips to help keep” the “community safe.” “We’re …
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A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, was an astrologer who called the impending solar eclipse “the epitome of spiritual warfare” in an online post days earlier. Los Angeles police believe Danielle Cherakiyah Johnson, 34, posted …
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A fight broke out in a New Orleans courtroom Thursday after a man pleaded guilty to murdering his three children in an arson house fire last year. New Orleans news outlets report that Joseph Washington had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder when he was attacked by a woman related to the children. LOUISIANA MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY KILLED TODDLER, SHOT SELF …
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A Wisconsin man was formally charged with killing and dismembering the missing 19-year-old woman after body parts were discovered across Milwaukee County, officials announced on Friday. Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman announced in a news conference Friday morning that Maxwell Anderson, 33, of Milwaukee, has been charged with three felonies related to the murder and dismemberment of Sade Robinson. Per …
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Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national who brutally killed Alabama 18-year-old Natalee Holloway during her class trip to Aruba as a high school senior in 2005, has been pummeled in a remote Peruvian prison, where he previously boasted of conjugal visits with multiple women. The 36-year-old murderer is locked up in Peru for the 2010 death of Stephany Flores, …
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When Dylan Rounds went missing just shy of two years ago, the 19-year-old farmer from Idaho had just planted the first crop on his own Utah land. Local investigators and the FBI found skeletal remains, presumed to be his, in a remote area of Lucin, Utah, a 200-mile drive from Salt Lake City, the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office announced. …
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