Category: murder

Nevada Official Robert Telles Charged With Murder of Journalist

A Nevada elected official was charged with the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative journalist Jeff German during an appearance in court on Sept. 13. Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, a Democrat, was arrested last week on a charge of “open murder” following a search of his home by authorities which led to a positive match…


Alabama Teen on Trial in Slaying of Father, Stepmother, 3 Siblings

ATHENS, Ala.—An Alabama youth accused of killing his father, stepmother, and three young siblings when he was 14 went on trial Tuesday on capital murder charges. Prosecutors accuse Mason Sisk of shooting his family to death in their north Alabama home in 2019, saying he told investigators he killed them because he was “fed up”…


Horrifying Details Emerge at Trial in Ohio’s Most Complex Murder Case

Among the eight homicide victims scattered across four rural Ohio crime scenes, two young women were nursing infants when they were gunned down. The gunmen spared the babies’ lives. But, at one scene, a singularly sickening scenario unfolded, a prosecutor says. While his 2-year-old daughter was safe elsewhere, Edward “Jake” Wagner entered a home under…


German Man Convicted of Murder After Killing Over Mask Mandate

BERLIN—A man in Germany was convicted of murder and given a life sentence Tuesday for fatally shooting a gas station clerk following a dispute over face masks. The September 2021 killing in the western town of Idar-Oberstein shocked the country. The defendant also was convicted of illegal weapons possession because he didn’t have a license…


Mother’s Boyfriend Arrested in Killing of California Girl, 8

MERCED, Calif.—Police have arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found last March inside a central California home after the child was reported missing, authorities said. After a months-long manhunt, Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion of…


Man Gets 16 to Life for Killing Girlfriend in La Habra

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 23-year-old man was sentenced Sept. 9 to 16 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in his car in a restaurant parking lot in La Habra five years ago. Jose Antonio Bojorquez-Romero was convicted May 17 of second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a…


Man Charged With Murder in Minnesota Shooting That Killed 3

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A Minneapolis man has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in a weekend shooting that left three people dead and two wounded, according to a criminal complaint made public Friday. Authorities say 41-year-old Antonio Dupree Wright walked into a St. Paul duplex through the back door…


Man Admits Killing Four People Who Were Stabbed to Death in London House

A man has admitted to stabbing his girlfriend, her mother, grandmother, and her grandmother’s partner at a house in Bermondsey, south London earlier this year. Joshua Jacques, 28, appeared at the Old Bailey in London on Friday and denied murdering NHS worker Dolet Hill, 64, her partner Denton Burke, 58, their daughter Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45,…


Man Charged in Maryland Deputy Sheriff’s 1971 Killing

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—A New York man has been arrested and charged with killing a law enforcement officer in Maryland more than 50 years ago, police said Wednesday. Larry David Smith, 70, admitted to shooting Montgomery County Special Deputy Sheriff Capt. James Tappen Hall in 1971 when police detectives interviewed him in New York last Thursday, the…


Prosecution: Man Admits Killing Girlfriend, Son in Alabama

DADEVILLE, Ala.—A man charged in the deaths of his live-in girlfriend and her son, whose dismembered bodies were discovered in central Alabama after a 12-year-old girl escaped captivity in a rural mobile home, has admitted to killing the two, prosecutors told a judge. José Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, gave self-incriminating information about the deaths of Sandra…