An Oregon man wanted by police was arrested Friday and charged with killing his missing 3-year-old son and the boy’s mother. Citing Salem police Lieutenant Treven Upkes, the Statesman Journal reported that detectives apprehended Michael John Wolfe, 52, at a doughnut shop in Portland. Charged with aggravated murder, he remains held at Yamhill County jail …
Authorities in Maryland are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who fatally gunned down a woman earlier this month, WUSA-TV reports. Bettie Jenifer, 44, was shot and killed on the evening of May 10 as she was leaving the business she owned, a temporary hiring agency, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The shooting happened …
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The Colorado father accused of killing the mother of his child has pleaded not guilty to murder. KOAA reports that Patrick Frazee, arrested for the murder of Kelsey Berreth earlier this year, pleaded not guilty in Teller County Court on Friday morning, in a hearing that was delayed several weeks after his attorneys waited for …
One of 14 men who was criminally charged in last year’s death of a 15-year-old New York boy will be given time served for being the prosecution’s star witness. From WPIX, Kevin Alvarez, 19, revealed Tuesday that he has a cooperation agreement with the Office of the Bronx District Attorney. While Alvarez had pleaded guilty …
A South Carolina prison guard testified Tuesday that a man on trial for killing his five children in 2014 said that he murdered his 8-year-old daughter after she witnessed him strangle one of her younger brothers to death. Lieutenant Travis Pressley claimed that Timothy Jones admitted to choking his son for playing with electrical outlets. …
A transgender woman in Texas was found shot to death on the street Sunday, a month after she was filmed being attacked in a parking lot. As reported by the New York Times, the Dallas Police Department announced Sunday that Muhlaysia Booker, 23, was found dead after responding to reports of gunfire. Police Major Vincent …
A man tied to the unsolved murder of Pennsylvania teacher Rachael DelTondo was found unconscious, from an apparent drug overdose, early Sunday morning. WPXI reports that Sheldon Jeter, who is in his early twenties, was found unconscious on a roadside in Aliquippa, the same town where DelTondo was gunned down in her parents’ driveway on …
A New York father has now been criminally charged with murder and arson after he allegedly chained his young daughter inside a burning car, Newsday reports. Prosecutors on Friday took action against the man, 39-year-old Martin Pereira of Long Island. Two weeks earlier, on May 5, firefighters discovered his 3-year-old daughter, Zoey Pereira, inside a …
The 1996 rape and murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge led to the conviction of a man who spent two decades in prison for the crime, but authorities now say someone else was responsible for the brutal attack, the Idaho Statesman reports. Police this week arrested 53-year-old Brian Leigh Dripps Sr. for first-degree murder, officials from …
The suspects arrested for the murder of a pregnant 19-year-old woman allegedly distracted her with a photo album of the accused killer’s dead son. As CBS Chicago reports, Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her 24-year-old daughter Desiree Figueroa — both charged with first-degree murder for the brutal slaying of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez in Chicago — were denied …
A Texas man who has been jailed since last year for allegedly killing an elderly woman and attempting to kill two others was indicted on 11 additional capital murder charges this week. Grand juries in Dallas and Collin Counties respectively returned six and five indictments against Billy Chemirmir, 46. Chemirmir is believed to have committed …
