Archive for attempted-murder
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
A Henrico, Virginia, woman has been accused to attempting to kill her newborn daughter by wrapping her in a plastic bag and pillowcase and leaving her in the dryer to die. Angela Janecka, a 39-year-old stay-at-home-mom, gave birth to the baby girl at home and then called her husband who was at work and ... read more »
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
A witness has said that Tucker Cipriano, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, who has been accused of beating his father Robert Cipriano, 52, to death in a horrific attack that left his mother and younger brother critically injured, had plotted the killing spree with a friend and the two and split in advance who would kill which members ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Police arrested three Hesperia, California, Ranchero Middle School students after they allegedly attempted to kill the mother of one of the teens. Police responded after a call from the mother after she had been attacked in her bed on Tuesday morning and found her 13-year-old daughter to be missing from the home. According to authorities, ... read more »
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012
As a poster boy for missing kids everywhere, Adam Croote’s story was the textbook case for why public resources should be used to help more victimized children. Croote, a former abducted child himself, stood next to Bill Clinton in 1996 as the president signed an order requiring missing children posters to be hung in federal ... read more »
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
When is it illegal for a woman to give her son a ride? When she’s taking him and an accomplice from Chicago to Cicero to shoot a person they believe to be a police informant. That’s exactly what Cicero police say Linda J. Vargas-Jurado did. Vargas-Jurado, 33, was taken into custody on Thursday by Chicago and Cicero police, as ... read more »
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Elizabeth Garcia, a 19-year-old Florida Keys woman, has been charged with the attempted murder of a two-month-old child. A video obtained by investigators with the Department of Children and Families reportedly shows the woman trying to hit the child with a rock, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Reports claim that the video shows ... read more »
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Houston area police report that a 46 year old grandmother tried to trick her 7 year old grandson so that she could attempt to drown him in her bathtub. Arburne Jeanine Bensen, 46, reportedly told the boy to take a shower and then proceeded to fill the tub with water and force his head under ... read more »
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Police in Nolan County, Texas, say a man has confessed to choking his 4-year-old son and leaving him alongside a highway to die. Carlos Rico, 22, said that “voices” told him to kill and dump his son, according to ABC News. Rico has been charged with attempted capital murder. Rico’s son, Angel Flores, has been ... read more »
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Friday, April 8th, 2011
Two women have been taken into custody and held at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado, accused of trying to drown a 20 month old toddler girl. One of the women is reportedly the toddler’s mother, Samantha Salaz, 19 and the other is a caregiver, Mary Horsley, 50. It is not yet ... read more »
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
After a fight with her baby’s father, a Maryland mom allegedly tied a noose around her infant son’s neck with the intention of killing the boy and herself. Charging documents said police officers went to [Blanca Noehmi Juarez's] house April 16 while she was having a fight with her boyfriend, who is the 9-month-old boy’s ... read more »
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Perhaps this budding teen Sofia Coppola hasn’t heard of a thing called “props” or “special effects”: A schoolgirl movie maker filmed herself as she tried to murder her parents in their living room, a jury heard today… In the video, the girl first filmed herself as she sat in her bedroom dressed in a silk ... read more »
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