Category: murder

Man Charged With Killing Mother at Sea to Remain Detained

BURLINGTON, Vt.—The man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England in a plot to inherit millions of dollars will remain detained pending trial, a federal judge in Vermont ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford denied Nathan Carman’s request to be released and…


Man Accused of Murdering 9-Year-Old Girl in Small English Town of Boston

A Lithuanian national has been remanded in custody on a charge of murdering a 9-year-old girl who was stabbed to death while playing in the street with her younger sister in Boston, a market town in Lincolnshire in the east of England. Deividas Skebas, 22, was arrested on Saturday and charged with the murder of Lilia…


Man Guilty of Killing Arkansas Officer Gets 2 Life Sentences

HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—An Arkansas man has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop in 2020 and firing at another officer on the scene. A jury on Thursday convicted Kayvon Ward, 24, of first-degree murder in the death of Hot Springs police Officer Brent Scrimshire…


Missouri Woman Acquitted of Murder in Teen Daughter’s Death

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—A judge on Friday acquitted a southwestern Missouri woman on murder and two other felony charges in the death of the autistic teenage daughter that she gave up for adoption as a baby. Greene County Circuit Court Judge Calvin Holden found Rebecca Ruud not guilty of first- and second-degree murder, tampering with evidence and…


Ex-NFL Player Kevin Ware Charged in Girlfriend’s Killing

HOUSTON—A former NFL player was charged with murder Thursday in the killing of his girlfriend, whose remains were found months after she was reported missing last year. Kevin Ware, who played tight end in 2003 and 2004 for Washington and San Francisco, is also charged with tampering with evidence, specifically a corpse, in the death…


Oklahoma Pair Arrested in Child’s Death, Body Was Burned

SEMINOLE, Okla.—An Oklahoma man and a woman described as his girlfriend were arrested for the death of a young child whose burned body was found in central Oklahoma, authorities said. Police in Seminole, about 50 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, found the child’s burned body Wednesday after receiving a tip, the Oklahoma State Bureau of…


New DNA Tests Cast Doubt on 1996 Conviction in Railroad-Spike Slaying, Lawyers Say

David Lee Myers has been on Ohio’s Death Row since 1996, awaiting execution for one of the most gruesome killings that anyone in Xenia, Ohio, can recall: A railroad spike had been jammed through a young woman’s skull, and rocks, which had been used to violate her sexually, had been left inside her body. People around…


5 Arrested in Connection With Fatal Shooting in Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Police announced July 22 the arrest of five people in connection with a shooting in Long Beach that left a 24-year-old man dead and a woman injured. After an investigation, the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) units served a multi-location warrant service in the cities of Long Beach, Signal Hill, and Los Angeles…


Man Sentenced 15 Years to Life for Escondido Retiree’s 1986 Killing

SAN DIEGO—A 67-year-old man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a retiree in Escondido more than 35 years ago was sentenced July 22 to 15 years to life in state prison. Nathan Eugene Mathis was arrested in April 2018 at his home in Ontario concerning the death of 75-year-old Richard Finney, who was stabbed about…


Man Accused of Killing Saskatchewan Mountie Ordered to Stand Trial on Murder Charge

A man accused of killing a Saskatchewan RCMP officer during a traffic stop has been ordered to stand trial for first-degree murder. Alphonse Stanley Traverse, 42, of Winnipeg was originally charged with manslaughter in the June 12, 2021, death of Const. Shelby Patton. The charge was upgraded in November to first-degree murder. Judge Douglas Kovatch,…