JOHANNESBURG—Former South Africa Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been denied parole, South Africa’s prison authorities and a lawyer for the victim’s family said on Friday. Once the darling of the Paralympic movement for pushing for greater recognition and acceptance of disabled athletes, Pistorius shot dead Steenkamp,…
South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius Denied Parole a Decade After Killing Girlfriend
2 Men Get 220-Year Terms in Indianapolis for Killing 4
March 31, 2023
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INDIANAPOLIS—Two men convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal Indianapolis shootings of three young men and a young woman were both sentenced Friday to 220 years in prison. Cameron Banks and Desmond Banks were sentenced after being convicted in early March of four counts each of murder, felony murder and robbery resulting in…
1 Dead, 1 Hurt in Shooting During Miami Beach Spring Break
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Gunfire erupted in an area of Miami Beach crowded with people on spring break, killing one person, wounding another, and sending dozens scrambling for safety, police said. Two males were shot Friday night, and one person was detained at the scene, the Miami Beach Police Department posted on Twitter. It wasn’t clear if…
Killing of Maryland High Schooler Solved 52 Years Later
MILLERSVILLE, Md.—More than a half-century after Maryland high school student Pamela Conyers was found strangled to death following her disappearance from a local shopping mall, law enforcement officials announced Friday that they finally solved the case. But the suspect, Forrest Clyde Williams III—whom detectives identified using DNA technology and genetics research—died in 2018 of natural…
Man Convicted of Killing Kristin Smart Gets 25 Years to Life
March 10, 2023
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MONTEREY, Calif.—The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison. Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe rejected defense motions to toss out Paul Flores’s first-degree murder conviction, acquit him and order a new trial….
Man Serving Life Sentence Admits to 1990 Missouri Slaying
ST. CHARLES, Mo.—A prisoner who has been behind bars for decades for a St. Louis-area killing has pleaded guilty to one of four other deaths he has been linked to by prosecutors. Gary Muehlberg, 73, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison Monday in the 1990 death of 21-year-old Sandy…
Defense Lawyers in Idaho Killings Case Want Gag Order Kept
BOISE, Idaho—Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death asked the Idaho Supreme Court on Friday to keep a gag order in place, saying a challenge to the order filed by 30 news organizations is premature and that media coverage of the case has been “twisted.” The defense…
Utah Man Who Killed Family Was Investigated by Child Agency
SALT LAKE CITY—Child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man over alleged child abuse and threats to his family just weeks before he killed seven of his family members and then himself, new documents reveal. Caseworkers were at the Haight house in the small town of Enoch on Dec. 19, two weeks…
Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Navy Midshipman’s Mother
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A Maryland man convicted of fatally shooting the mother of a U.S. Naval Academy football player with a stray bullet was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Capital Gazette reports that Angelo Harrod’s life sentence was the maximum punishment sought in the case. In December, a jury convicted…
Woman Accused of Killing Ill Husband Seeks Release From Jail
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—A 76-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a Florida hospital is asking to be released from jail. Ellen Gilland was initially charged with first-degree murder in January after police said she shot Jerry Gilland, 77, in a suicide pact that she claimed had been in the work for…
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