A Florida man previously convicted of murder in Massachusetts is now running for city council in Palm Bay and hoping to bring positive change to the coastal town. Michael Bruyette, 59, spent 30 years in prison for beating a man to death in June 1985 before he was paroled with special conditions in 2016 for demonstrating good behavior, according to …
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MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is under new scrutiny as investigators have returned to his home nearly a year after his arrest on multiple murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case, which perplexed authorities for over a decade until last year. After a New York task force placed Heuermann under arrest last year, he …
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A former University of Arizona graduate student was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus, months after he was expelled. A Pima County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching a verdict against Murad Dervish, 48, in the death of Thomas Meixner, who was shot 11 times near his office …
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The bodies of two Kansas moms who were brutally murdered were found in a cow pasture inside a chest freezer, according to new court documents obtained by KFOR. Oklahoma state investigators suspended the search for Veronica Butler 39, and Jilian Kelley 27, in April. The pair were last seen on March 30 heading to pick up their children before their …
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Christopher Dunn has spent 33 years in prison for a murder he has claimed from the outset that he didn’t commit. A hearing this week will determine if he should go free. St. Louis prosecutors are now convinced Dunn is telling the truth, but lawyers for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office want him kept behind bars. Dunn, 52, is serving …
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Colorado man Kevin Bui has pleaded guilty to torching an innocent family’s home in the middle of the night, killing five people, including a toddler and a baby, out of revenge for stealing his cellphone – except none of the victims had anything to do with Bui’s stolen phone. Bui was believed to be the ringleader of a trio of …
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A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her …
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Oregon prosecutors have announced the indictment of a suspected serial killer in connection with three murders in the Portland area just weeks before he would have been released from prison on unrelated charges. Jesse Lee Calhoun, 39, an ex-con who was released from prison early in 2021, is accused of killing at least three women and suspected of causing at …
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A convicted U.S. sexual predator killed at least four women in Canada after he fled the country while on bail, and authorities believe there are more victims. Gary Allen Srery — who died in a U.S. prison in 2011 — made a run for the northern border after posting bail for a 1974 rape charge in Los Angeles and hid …
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Mexico’s “most powerful and ruthless” cartels operate in all 50 states and clash in American cities, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May report. The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have flooded major U.S. cities with meth and fentanyl and use violence to protect their turf, the report found. “The deadly reach of the Mexican Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels …
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