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Tip On FBI Line Leads To Accused Texas Killer Of Five In Closet
The man accused of killing five neighbors in a rural Texas home was arrested Tuesday after a four-day search. Francisco Oropeza, 38, was...
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May 3, 20232 min read
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TX Shooting Victims' Family Called 911 Repeatedly About Gunfire
When gunfire began blasting next door in Texas last Friday, waking a 6-week-old baby, several of the 16 people inside Sonia Guzmán’s home...
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May 2, 20232 min read
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After Pulling Into Wrong Driveway, Woman Shot Dead Near Albany
A 20-year-old woman was shot dead after she and her friends accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway in an Upstate New York home while...
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Apr 18, 20232 min read
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Florida Man Returns To Prison For Murder After Two-Year Release
Crosley Green's murder conviction and life sentence for the 1989 killing of Charles "Chip" Flynn was overturned in 2018 when a Florida...
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Apr 18, 20231 min read
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CA Man Gets Long Prison Term In 1996 Murder Of Kristin Smart
More than a quarter-century after college freshman Kristin Smart vanished in what became one of California's most notorious unsolved...
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Mar 13, 20232 min read
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Murdaugh Jurors Say His Courtroom Sobbing 'Wasn't Genuine'
Alex Murdaugh’s decision to take the stand and testify in his double murder trial sealed his fate, said several jurors who alleged that...
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Mar 7, 20232 min read
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Murdaugh Gets Life, and a Dressing-Down by Trial Judge
Disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh's disgrace was complete in Friday's sentencing hearing for the 2021 murders of his wife and...
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Mar 3, 20232 min read
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Half Of The Nation's Homicides Continue To Be Unsolved
Every night since May, two-year-old Nylah Cheese of San Francisco has slept with a crocheted doll wearing a white tee, black pants and a...
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Feb 27, 20232 min read
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Housekeeper’s Husband Arrested in Murder Of Los Angeles Bishop
The husband of an Irish bishop’s housekeeper was arrested in connection with the bishop’s murder in Los Angeles. David O’Connell, a...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
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Texas Man Guilty Of Murder Committed By His Teenage Son
A Texas man has been convicted of capital murder in the fatal shooting of three teenagers by the man’s 14-year-old son. Richard Acosta,...
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Feb 13, 20231 min read
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Idaho Killing Suspect Lost Teaching Job After 'Altercations' With Prof
Bryan Kohberger, the Ph.D. student charged with murdering four University of Idaho undergraduates, displayed such troubling behavior in...
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Feb 12, 20232 min read
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Second Elected New Jersey Official Shot Dead in a Week
Police in New Jersey responded to a shooting in the parking lot of PSE&G, an energy company, and found a Republican councilman shot dead...
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Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Republican New Jersey Council Member Shot To Death
Eunice Dwumfour, a New Jersey borough councilwoman, was found shot to death near her home Wednesday night. Gunshots were reported in...
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Feb 3, 20231 min read
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D.C. Subway Employee Killed While Intervening In Shootings
An employee of Washington, D.C.'s subway system who tried to stop a gunman targeting commuters Wednesday was fatally shot on a train...
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Feb 2, 20232 min read
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D.C. Employee Charged In Shooting Death Of 13-Year-Old Boy
A Washington, D.C., government employee turned himself in to the police to face a charge of second-degree murder charge in connection...
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Feb 1, 20232 min read
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Murdaugh Double Murder Trial Starting In South Carolina
The double-murder trial of disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh begins Monday with the scion of one of the state’s most powerful...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 23, 20232 min read
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Family is Sentenced to Life in Prison for Guard's Death Over Mask Rules
In the fatal 2020 shooting of a security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Mi., over a dispute regarding mask requirements, three...
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Jan 20, 20231 min read
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Homicide Count In Big U.S. Cities Dropped Five Percent Last Year
Citing a compilation by AH Datalytics, Ohio State University law Prof. Doug Berman of the Sentencing Law and Policy blog says that nearly...
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Jan 19, 20231 min read
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DNA Evidence, Google Searches On Dead Bodies Back MA Murder Case
DNA evidence that links Ana Walshe, a missing Cohasset, Ma., woman to bloody clothes and shoes left in a dumpster have led the state to...
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Jan 19, 20232 min read
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Murder Charge For Husband of Missing Massachusetts Woman
Brian Walshe, the husband of the Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year's Day, has been charged in her murder, the...
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Jan 18, 20231 min read
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