Archive for murder
Monday, March 18th, 2013
A trustee for Casey Anthony’s bankruptcy wants to liquidate the only asset Anthony may have — her personal story. After Anthony filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Jan., she claimed to have only $1,100 in assets while claiming $800,00 in debt. Anthony’s bankruptcy trustee, Stephen L Meininger, thinks Anthony may not have been totally forthright about an ... read more »
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
A New York mother, holding her 10-month-old son, leaped off her eight story apartment window on Wednesday in what police believe was a murder-suicide attempt. According to NBC News, Cynthia Wachenheim, 45, reportedly left a 7-page suicide note before she took the fatal jump out her window with her infant son, Keston. The suicide note ... read more »
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
An Oregon woman has been arrested after police believe her longtime boyfriend’s daughter, 10-year-old Miranda Crockett, died suspiciously in her care. Chandra Rose has been charged with two felony counts of criminal mistreatment and reckless endangerment misdemeanors. Police have not yet charged Rose with murder and have not stated whether she is being investigated for murder until ... read more »
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
A Naperville, Illinois woman has been charged on Thursday with first degree murder after she admitted to stabbing to death her 8-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting on Tuesday. Elzbieta Plackowska, 40, was babysitting Oliva Dworakowski, who was a kindergartner at Brookdale Elementary and while also caring for her young son, Justin, who attended Scott ... read more »
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
A nanny caring for two young children in a luxury, Upper West Side apartment in NYC, stabbed and killed the two children and then unsuccessfully tried to kill herself on Thursday afternoon. The murdered children’s parents are CNBC executive Kevin Krim and his wife Marina Krim, a pediatrician. Marina Krim told police that she arrived ... read more »
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
35-year-old Illinois resident Brian Cooper has been charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of third-degree sexual assault for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Alisha Bromfield. Bromfield, 21, had accompanied Cooper to his sister’s wedding on August 19th and they were sharing a hotel room at the Sand Bay Beach Resort in Wisconsin. According to ... read more »
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are investigating a woman they believe is connected to a dead newborn baby that was found in a dumpster on August 1oth. Alexandria Sladon-Marler, 33, went to the Emergency Room at Broward General Medical Center that same day. “They asked her what she thought she was suffering from,” Detective DeAnna Garcia ... read more »
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
20-year-old Beatrice Weston is suing the city of Philadelphia, claiming that city officials failed to act appropriately and properly train workers which could have prevented the nightmare she endured. In October 2011, Turgut Gozleveli, a Philadelphia apartment building’s landlord, found two dog bowls in the apartment block. Pets were not allowed, and Gozleveli questioned the ... read more »
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
America’s longest serving female prison inmate, Betty Smithey, was released today after being incarcerated for the past 49 years. Smithy, now 69-years-old, was convicted in 1963 for the New Year’s Day murder of a 15-month-old baby girl. Smithy was 20-years-old when she was working as a live-in babysitter for the Gerberick family in Arizona. ... read more »
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
Two teenage brothers in Tacoma, Washington were arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder after their mother found a body in the family home in the 800 block of East 52nd street and called police. Friday afternoon, the mother of the two boys — ages 14 and 16 — arrived home to find them standing ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Michael (“Mick”), 55, and Mairead Philpott, 31, of Derbyshire, England, have been charged with the murder of their six children after a fire in their home on May 11th. They will appear in court on Thursday morning. Jade, age 10, John, age 9, Jack, age 8, Jessie, age 6, and Jayden, age 5, all died ... read more »
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
A Tacony, Philadelphia woman has been charged with two counts of murder after she killed her 18-month-old twins, Adam and Eve, in an angry rage over her husband’s alleged affair with one of her family members. Authorities believe that on Thursday afternoon, Stacey Smalls, 41, killed one of the twins by smothering it and the ... 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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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
A neighbor said that Lillie Stanton was crazy about her daughter and granddaughter. Yet, on Sunday, the 48-year-old grandmother went on a brutal and horrific stabbing spree, in which she allegedly murdered her daughter, Danel “Korrey” Stanton, 23, and her 22-month-old granddaughter, Kaydence Ray Meirs, in the neck before stabbing herself. Winchester, Kentucky, police Capt. James ... read more »
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