Archive for attempted-murder

Mother allegedly wraps newborn in plastic bag and puts her in the dryer to die

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 »

Teen and friend split list of his family members to kill with horrific baseball bat beatings

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 »

Girl, 13, allegedly hires two friends to help kill her mother

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 »

Former missing-child poster boy sentenced for rape charge

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 »

Woman drives her son to a neighboring town to kill informant

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 »

Florida woman accused of trying to kill infant with a rock

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 »

Police: Grandmother tried to murder 7 year old grandson

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 »

Texas dad chokes, dumps son on highway

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 »

Mother accused of trying to drown toddler in toilet

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 »

Mom charged with tying noose around baby’s neck

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 »

Teen documents attempted murder of parents on film

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 »