Category: Slayings

Judge Agrees to Narrow but Not Lift Gag Order in University of Idaho Student Slayings Case

June 24, 2023
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BOISE, Idaho—An Idaho judge has denied a request from roughly two dozen news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The judge did, however, significantly narrow the gag order in response to the news organizations’ concerns. The ruling was…

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Man Gets 240 Years in Prison for 2020 Slayings of 4 People

April 29, 2023
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INDIANAPOLIS—A man convicted of four counts of murder and other charges in the fatal Indianapolis shootings of three young men and a young woman was sentenced Friday to 240 years in prison. Lasean Watkins also was found guilty in March of felony murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury in the February 2020 shooting…

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Oklahoman Pleads Guilty to Killing 3, Cutting Heart From 1

March 16, 2023
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CHICKASHA, Okla.—An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing three people, including a woman whose heart was cut from her body, weeks after being released from prison as part of a mass commutation effort. Lawrence Paul Anderson, 44, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Grady County District Court to three…

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The White Sedan: How Police Found Suspect in Idaho Slayings

January 14, 2023
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MOSCOW, Idaho—The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho. Then again. And again. It was unusual behavior in the residential, hillside neighborhood in the quiet hours before dawn. And according to a police affidavit released on Jan. 6, surveillance videos showing the vehicle that November night…

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