Florida Girl to be Laid to Rest
The slain girl in Northern Florida will be buried privately after a funeral. Funeral services for Somer Thompson, who was seven, have been scheduled for Tuesday. They will be held at the First Baptist Church of Orange Park. Mourners will release thousands of purple balloons into the air after the service. Somer will be buried [...]
Court Will Not Get Involved in Hamas Suit
The Supreme Court has decided not to let the parents of a teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Israel collect damages from a man accused of helping fund Hamas. The court refused on Tuesday to hear appeals from the parents of David Biom, a seventeen-year-old boy killed in the 1997 drive-by shooting in Beit [...]
Man Charged for 1989 Killing of Ex’s Child
A San Diego attorney has been charged with murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s daughter twenty years ago so that she could take custody of her granddaughters. Eric Fagan was charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder on Thursday, a day after being arrested at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. [...]
Police Investigate Death of NJ Priest
Investigators are treating a priest recently found dead in a New Jersey church rectory as a crime. The cause of the death of Reverend Ed Hinds has not been released as of Friday. His body was discovered at St. Patrick’s Church in Chatham, New Jersey on Friday morning. Captain Jeffrey Paul of the Morris County [...]
DA: Arson-Related Heart Attacks are Murder
Five men were victims of heart attacks during the 2003 blaze that swept through the foothills of San Bernadino, including 70-year-old James McDermith. McDermith was a church deacon who was camping when he noticed smoke, attempting to pack together his things, and suffered a fatal heart attack. Prosecutors charged the suspected arsonist this week with [...]
Beaten Homeless Men were ‘Easy Prey’
Prosecutors in a recent case said that two homeless men were viciously beaten by a group of Michigan teens because they were “easy prey.” Assistant prosecuting attorney Gregory Townsend told a jury on Thursday that evidence presented at the trial will show that fifteen-year-old Thomas McCloud was involved in the attacks on Wilford Hamilton and [...]
Investigators Think Landfill Body is Missing Fla. Girl
Authorities currently believe that a body discovered in a Georgia landfill is that of seven-year-old Somer Thompson, who went missing as she walked home from school. Rick Beseler, the sheriff in charge of her case, said on Thursday that the identification was based on her clothing and a birthmark that matched Somer’s. Detectives said they [...]
Charges Dropped Against Teen in Beating Death
Charges of first-degree murder against one of four Illinois teenagers involved in the beating and death of a student were dropped on Monday. The fight was recorded on a cell phone camera. Eugene Bailey, eighteen, of Chicago, was arrested on September 26th, two days after sixteen-year-old Derrion Albert was killed during a fight after class [...]
California Lawyer Arrested for 1989 Killing
Authorities recently arrested a Southern California lawyer for the murder of the daughter of his girlfriend over twenty years ago. Authorities say that Eric Fagan, seventy-four, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Chula Vista and is being held without bail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Authorities say he shot and killed Cathy [...]
Ga. Executes Man for Store Manager Killing
The man who shot and killed a pizza store manager during a robbery in 1994 has been executed by lethal injection. Mark Howard McClain was executed on Tuesday at a state prison roughly fifty miles south of Atlanta, Georgia, after he exhausted his appeals and his bid for clemency was rejected. He was pronounced dead [...]