An 18-year-old in Pennsylvania has entered a guilty plea after she killed a 12-year-old girl over a year ago, authorities say. Ash Cooper, a transgender woman formerly known as Joshua Cooper, pleaded guilty Thursday to a slew of charges that include third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Cooper murdered Morgan Connors, …
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Cynthia Portaro was on her way to be face-to-face with her son’s killer at a courthouse when she made a decision that would shock everyone. “It was the morning of the sentencing,” the Las Vegas mother recalled to Fox News Digital. “I just heard the voice of God telling me to forgive him. I didn’t know how I was going …
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The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan is investigating threats from James Crumbley, father of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, to prosecutors following his trial. Two juries found James Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer Crumbley, guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter each for their roles in then-15-year-old Ethan Crumbley’s decision to shoot up Oxford High School in November …
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A Michigan man pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl whose disappearance last summer led to a 100-mile search that stretched from the state capital to the Detroit area. Rashad Trice, 27, admitted that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing as part of a dispute with a former girlfriend who was the girl’s …
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Police have captured two people of interest after a New York woman was allegedly killed by squatters and stuffed into a duffel bag in her apartment. Two people connected to the death of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels were captured in York, Pennsylvania, Friday by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. Halley Tejada, …
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Even after a judge tossed the alleged confession of an Ohio dad accused of executing his three sons and shooting their mother’s hand, he could still face the death penalty, experts say. Ohio law makes capital punishment a possibility in certain murder cases – including when there is a child victim. “The confession isn’t a mitigating or aggravating factor, so …
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A British IT worker who befriended and worked for an older couple, poisoned them with fentanyl and monitored their death with his cellphone was sentenced Friday to a minimum 37 years in prison. The sentencing of Luke D’Wit, 34, came two days after he was found guilty of murder in the deaths of Stephen and Carol Baxter, 61 and 64, …
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A former Filipino congressman accused of masterminding the killings of a provincial governor and several others has been arrested in East Timor and will be deported to the Philippines, Philippine justice officials said Friday. Police arrested Arnolfo Teves Jr. while he was playing at a golf driving range Thursday in East Timor’s capital of Dili, where he has tried to …
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FIRST ON FOX: Missouri investigators say they have solved the 1990 murder of a 22-year-old woman who was last seen alive on Halloween of that year, months before police found her remains hogtied behind a barn. Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer, had been a potential suspect, according to the McDonald County Sheriff’s Office. So had Larry Hall, a suspected …
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A Georgia man convicted of the killing of his former girlfriend three decades ago was put to death Wednesday evening in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Willie James Pye, 59, received an injection of the sedative pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was sentenced to die for …
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