Cleveland Suspect Withdraws Insanity Plea
A Cleveland man charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home has withdrawn his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Anthony Sowell’s plea was changed to not guilty during a pretrial hearing on Wednesday. Defense attorney John Parker tells The Plain Dealer newspaper that the switch was [...]
Court Throws Out Death Penalty for Slayer of Three
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children around the holidays in 2006. Justices on Thursday upheld James Aaron Miller’s murder conviction but ordered that he be resentenced. Miller was convicted of killing Bridgette Barr, 5-year-old Sydney Barr and [...]
Deputy-Slaying Fugitive Caught
The man charged with murder in the shooting death of a Utah’s sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday after authorities found him asleep inside a shed. Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, was captured around 8 a.m. in Beaver County, authorities said. Roman, the subject of an intensive manhunt, was charged with capital murder and tampering with evidence [...]
Woman Charged with Drowning Grandson
A 71-year-old German woman has been charged with drowning her 5-year-old grandson in a bathtub while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle. Marianne Bordt of Nufringen, Germany, was being held Tuesday at the Franklin County Jail in Eastpoint. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death Monday of Camden Hiers of Roswell, Ga., on St. [...]
Two Teens Charged in Ohio Slaying
Two Missouri teens have been charged in the death of an Ohio man whose body was found in the refrigerated compartment of a tractor-trailer. Six other people also have been charged in the death of 20-year-old James William Boyd McNeely, including the trucker in whose rig the body was found. Missouri officials wouldn’t say whether [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to 1982 Murder
A Vermont man has admitted to killing an 18-year-old girl in 1982 in a plea deal with prosecutors. Forty-seven-year-old Theodore Caron of Barre was arrested in February in the strangulation death of Pamela Brown. A DNA sampled linked Caron to the slaying. Caron initially pleaded innocent to first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Slain Casino Official Planned to Quit
The wife of the California casino official killed by an ex-employee says her husband was about to leave his job because he didn’t like being ordered to fire people. Raymundo Casillas Jr. was the head of the Barona Gaming Commission in San Diego County. He was killed Tuesday when Donnell Roberts went to his office [...]
Gunman, One Other Dead at Casino Office
Authorities say Donnell Roberts, former investigator for the Indian tribal casino’s gaming commission, shot and killed a man in the office before fatally turning the gun on himself Tuesday. “Our worst fears were confirmed,” San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore told reporters outside the convention center of the Barona Resort and Casino. “It appears to [...]
Teens to be Arraigned in Hate Crime Case
Two Pennsylvania teenagers are scheduled to appear in federal court for the first time since being charged with a hate crime in the death of an illegal Mexican immigrant. Eighteen-year-old Brandon Piekarsky and 19-year-old Derrick Donchak will be arraigned Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre on charges stemming from the July 2008 beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez. [...]
Verdict Expected for Kercher Murder Appeals Trial
An Italian jury began deliberating Tuesday in the appeals trial of a man convicted of murdering a British student and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast denies killing Meredith Kercher and has appealed his conviction. A verdict by the eight-member jury is expected later Tuesday. Also convicted in the [...]