Attorneys for a Massachusetts woman about to go on trial for the second time for the death of her boyfriend in 2022 have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop the new trial on the basis of double jeopardy. Karen Read’s first trial last summer ended in a hung jury when jurors reported they could …
A 24-year-old man hid a women’s bathroom stall at Boston’s Museum of Science last week and attacked a 15-year-old girl. Yandri Hernandez was arrested on Wednesday and charged with kidnapping of a child, strangulation or suffociation, and assault and battery, according to the Fall River Reporter. He was ordered held without bail at a dangerousness …
Boston police responded to a call about shots fired in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood late Monday night and found a mother and her baby with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to local hospitals, and the baby is being treated for life-threatening injuries, WCVB reported. “Pretty heinous act in general, pretty cowardly. I can’t think of …
Murder suspet Kevin Kangethe, who escaped police custody in Kenya last week while waiting to learn if he would be extradited to the United States to stand trial for the murder of his girlfriend, has been recaptured and brought back to jail. Family members told Citizen Digital that Kangethe was returned to jail under tight …
A man accused of killing his girlfriend and leaving her body in a car at Boston’s airport while he fled to Kenya has escaped custody there. According to the Associated Press, a man appeared at the police station in Nairobi on Wednesday afternoon, identified himself as Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe’s lawyer, and asked to speak …
Massachusetts police are looking for a 24-year-old woman who didn’t make it home after work on Thursday. Dedham Police say that Esther Pierre Isaac finished her shift at the Coast Guard Exchange in Boston on Thursday afternoon and left for home. She usually take the MBTA commuter train to Readville, they said, but her phone …
A New Jersey attorney was arrested this week and charged in a series of rapes and kidnappings in Boston in 2007 and 2008 after investigators used forensic genealogy to tie him to the crimes. Matthew Nilo, 35, was arrested at his waterfront apartment building in Weehawken on Tuesday by FBI agents and police. Investigators called …
Boston transit police on Friday charged a man with the indecent assault of a 4-year-old at a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority station near the Boston Common. Officers said they were called to the Park Street Station by the child’s mother, who told them her child was assaulted by a man she didn’t know on the …
Authorities in Massachusetts say a driver for Uber was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a passenger early Saturday morning. According to Fox News, the incident occurred at about 1:15 a.m. in Boston. According to a statement from the Massachusetts State Police, a female passenger alleged 37-year-old Daudah Mayanja raped her on Storrow Drive. He …
Authorities in Massachusetts say a Rhode Island man was arrested in Delaware on suspicion of kidnapping a woman missing since late Saturday night. According to WFXT, 23-year-old Jassy Correia’s brother said her body was found in the trunk of a car belonging to suspect Louis D. Coleman III, 32. According to police reports, she was …
Authorities in Massachusetts say a man is behind bars after his arrest on suspicion of killing a young girl unresponsive at the home of a relative last month. The girl was transported to Tufts Medica Center via air ambulance, as reported by WBZ. She was pronounced dead after spending several days in a coma. According …
