Three Sentenced in Walmart Worker Slaying
Three friends who played a part in the killing of a developmentally disabled Walmart cashier in New Hampshire are going to prison. Timothy Smith, Anthony Howe and Amber Talbot pleaded guilty earlier this year conspiracy and second-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Christopher Gray of Groton, Vt. Prosecutors say Gray was killed for taking [...]
Four Slain in Utah Apartment
Police say that four members of a Utah family were killed in what could be a murder-suicide case. West Jordan Police Sgt. Drew Sanders says the bodies of two adults and two children were found dead around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in a unit at the Willow Cove Apartment complex. Sanders says police received a call [...]
Search for Shot, Burned Woman Resumes
The search for a Vermont woman who was shot to death and burned in 2006 has resumed. Vermont State Police crime scene investigators are looking for the remains of Mary Wilcox, a woman who had Alzheimer’s disease and was reported missing by her family three years ago. On Thursday, police charged her daughter – 59-year-old [...]
Mother who Killed Four Girls gets 120 Years
A Washington, D.C. woman who was convicted of murdering her four daughters has been sentenced to one hundred twenty years in prison. Banita Jacks was discovered in her home with her four daughters’ decomposing corpses – she refused to use an insanity defense. Her lawyers say the 34-year-old wasn’t competent when she rejected that advice. [...]
Man’s “Fat Defense” Fails, Faces Sentencing
A Florida man whose attorney claimed that he was simply too fat to have shot his son-in-law and escaped will be sentenced in New Jersey. A jury convicted Edward Ates of shooting and killing Paul Duncsak in the latter’s New Jersey home. Ates’ defense was focused on the idea that he was not in sufficient [...]
Woman in Womb-Cutting Case Charged with Murder
A Massachusetts woman is charged with murder after she allegedly faked her own pregnancy, killed her pregnant friend, cut the baby from her womb, and kidnapped the infant. Julie Corey was initially charged with kidnapping after authorities found her and the baby in a homeless shelter in Plymouth, N.H., in July. DNA tests confirmed that [...]
Woman Killed Mother, Had Son Bury Remains
Vermont Police say that a seventy-eight-year-old woman who was reported missing three years ago was actually killed by her daughter, police say. Mary Wilcox’s body was then burned and disposed of by her daughter’s son. Fifty-nine-year-old Jeanne Sevigny told police her mother had Alzheimer’s disease and wandered from their home Nov. 9, 2006. But police [...]
Four Found Shot to Death in Manhattan Apartment
Manhattan authorities say that four men were discovered shot to death in an apartment. The slayings were reported at about two in the afternoon from an apartment building on the Upper West Side. Two of the bodies were found in the bedroom, one in the bathroom, and one in the back yard. A wounded woman [...]
Motivational Speaker Accused in Las Vegas Slaying
Authorities say a motivational speaker told police that he and a Las Vegas woman were in a meditation session in her home when he decided to kill her. Michael Lane of Britain is facing murder and robbery with a deadly weapon charges, and a single count of grand larceny auto. He is accused of the [...]
DNA Database Gaps lead to Tragedy
Wisconsin authorities say that a man accused of twenty-year series of killings in Milwaukee left his DNA everywhere except for the one place it could have helped save a life. Walter Ellis should have given a sample of his DNA while serving a prison term earlier this decade, authorities say. Analysts were unable to match [...]