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Chauvin is accused of killing George Floyd, an unarmed man apprehended for a nonviolent offense
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March 7, 2021
‘Take me away,’ Connecticut mom tells cops, who find 4-year-old son dead inside apartment
Police in Connecticut arrested a 33-year-old woman for murder after she told them “take me away ” because she “hurt her son.” WTNH reported that police were called to a parking lot just before 6:30 a.m. for a report of a woman damaging a car with a bat. The woman fled the scene, but the …
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March 7, 2021
2 arrested after teen girl’s dead body found wrapped in plastic in abandoned Manhattan fish market
New York police have arrested two men and charged them with killing a 19-year-old woman whose body was found wrapped in plastic in an abandoned fish market, ABC7 reported. Authorities have identified the woman as Rosalee Sanchez. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sanchez’s boyfriend and another person found her body early Saturday morning and called 911. …
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March 6, 2021
Husband tried to make murder of his wife look like she interrupted a robbery: Cops
An Idaho man was charged this week with the 2014 murder of his wife after Cassia County authorities brought in the FBI to help with the case, the Idaho State Journal reports. Jimmy Lee Murphy, 32, was arrested on Wednesday at his home in Minidoka County scuffling with officers when he tried to flee. He’s …
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March 6, 2021
10-year-old calls 911 after dad allegedly kills stepmother, dog
A Kentucky police dispatcher answered a desperate call to 911 Thursday night: A 10-year-old boy reported a deadly shooting at his home in Brandenburg, WLKY reports. “A 10-year-old was on the telephone saying that his stepmother and stepmother’s dog had been shot,” said Brandenburg Police Chief Brian Haag. Brandenburg police and Meade County sheriff’s deputies …
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March 6, 2021
Virginia man turns himself in for killing woman, 14 years after getting out of prison ‘for the same thing’
James Richard King appeared via video for a preliminary hearing on Friday, charged with the September 2020, murder of 53-year-old Lexie Walters, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, the Virginian-Pilot reported. King, 67, showed up at a Virginia Beach police precinct just before 9 a.m. on September 17 “to turn himself in” and tell police “that there …
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March 6, 2021
Palm Beach wife missing, hubby taunts cops to ‘find the body!’ They just did.
A Florida man who taunted police to “find the body” has been arrested for the murder of his wife — after they found her body buried in his Boynton Beach backyard, the Palm Beach Post reports. Roberto Colon, 66, reportedly told police he married Mary Stella Gomez-Mullett — an immigrant who lived with and took …
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March 6, 2021
James Hutchinson: Dozens of charges for mom, boyfriend in brutal murder of 6-year-old boy; river search to resume Sunday
An Ohio mother and her boyfriend are now facing formal charges in connection with the death of her young son, whose body was dumped in a river and has not yet been found, WHIO-TV reports. A grand jury on Friday indicted 29-year-old Brittany Gosney and 42-year-old James Hamilton following the death of 6-year-old James Hutchinson in …
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March 5, 2021
Child dead, other kids in home unable to walk or talk after chronic neglect, food deprivation: Police
Ashley Ferguson told police that the children’s “primary source of food was milk.”
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March 4, 2021
Dallas cop allegedly pays to have 2 people killed: Police chief
A Dallas police officer was was charged Thursday with two counts of capital murder in a pair of cases from 2017, Fox 4 reports. Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said a witness told investigators that Officer Bryan Riser, who’d been with the department since 2008, hired him to kidnap and kill two people. An FBI …
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March 4, 2021
Georgia mom told husband their son had an earache, allegedly shot the boy an hour later: Cops
A Georgia mother charged with fatally shooting her 7-year-old son earlier this week held the boy out of school, telling her husband that their son had an earache about an hour before she allegedly shot him, the Morgan County Citizen reports. Alison Jones, 36, has been charged with murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault in …
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March 4, 2021
Dad murdered in home hours after son is released from jail for stealing his guns, cops say
A Virginia man allegedly killed his father on Thursday — hours after he was released from jail for stealing the victim’s firearms. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Langdon Conklin, 24, was charged with Robert Conklin’s first-degree murder after the 60-year-old was found slain in his Colonial Heights home. On Wednesday, officers responded to a burglary-in-progress …