Category: murder

4 Teens Accused of Dragging Woman to Death Plead Not Guilty

NEW ORLEANS—Four teens charged with murder in the dragging death of an elderly New Orleans woman whose arm was severed during a carjacking pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Shackled and clad in red jumpsuits, the 17-year-old boy, 16-year-old girl, and two 15-year-old girls entered the pleas to a charge of second-degree murder in the March 21…


Man Who Brutally Murdered California Couple Killed in Prison

LOS ANGELES—A state prison inmate serving a life sentence for brutally stabbing an elderly Monrovia, Calif., couple to death in 2003 has died, and prison officials suspect his cell mate—also a convicted murder—of killing him, authorities said on May 1. At approximately 2:05 a.m. Saturday, officials at Kern Valley State Prison in Central California discovered…


Bail Set at $1 Million for Boy Accused of Killing 10-Year-Old Girl in Wisconsin

By Matt McKinney From Star Tribune CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.—A 14-year-old boy accused of the rape and murder of 10-year-old Iliana “Lily” Peters appeared Wednesday before a circuit court judge who ordered him held on $1 million cash bail. Appearing in court via video from a juvenile detention facility, the defendant—an 8th grader and a lifelong…


California Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence in Murders of Dad, Stepmom, Stepsister

LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles man twice convicted of murdering his father, stepmother, and 8-year-old stepsister 40 years ago had his death sentence reversed Thursday by the California Supreme Court. The court upheld Robert Bloom’s first-degree murder conviction in his father’s slaying but reversed second-degree murder convictions in the other killings because his lawyers violated his…


Crown Wraps Case at Quebec Halloween Murder Trial, Defence to Begin Next Week

The Crown has wrapped its case in the trial of a 26-year-old man charged with using a sword to murder two people and injure five others on Halloween night 2020 in Quebec City’s historic district. Carl Girouard is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Suzanne Clermont, 61, and François Duchesne,…


Wales: Trio Found Guilty of Murdering 5-Year-Old Logan Mwangi

The mother and stepfather of a five-year-old boy whose battered body was found dumped in a river have been found guilty of his murder. John Cole, 40, and Angharad Williamson, 31, of Sarn, Bridgend, were convicted of killing Logan Mwangi by a jury of five men and seven women at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday…


DA Asks to Drop Charges in Colorado Missing Woman Case

DENVER—Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a Colorado man about to go on trial in the presumed death of his missing wife but reserved the right to bring new charges against him later. The request followed Judge Ramsey Lama’s decision earlier this month to bar prosecutors from presenting key witnesses…


UK: Woman Held in Murder Probe After Man Killed in Glastonbury

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was killed in a house in Glastonbury over the Easter bank holiday. Police were called by the ambulance service to an address in Chilkwell Street in the Somerset town at 11.43pm on Monday after reports that a man had been stabbed. The man…


Parents of Quebec City Murder Suspect Say Police Failed to Help Them

The parents of a man facing a second-degree murder charge say tragedy could have been avoided had Quebec City police listened to their pleas for help. Lucie Drouin and Daniel Lebel told a news conference today they called police on April 4 to seek help for their son, Kim Lebel, who was experiencing a mental…


Police Find 2 Dead Kids in Miami Apartment, Mother Arrested

MIAMI—Police in Miami arrested a 41-year-old woman in the deaths of her two children, aged 3 and 5 after officers responded to repeated hang-up 911 calls from her apartment where they found their tied-up bodies. “Come get them, I don’t want them anymore,” Odette Lysse Joassaint told officers who responded to the scene on Tuesday…