The boyfriend of the so-called “treehouse killer” was convicted Thursday on a single count of perjury for lying to a grand jury as police probed the death of Michael Chiklis in 2018. Jonathan Lind still faces trial on charges of accessory to murder and disinterring a body, and his attorney says he’ll be appealing the …
A 65-year-old Massachusetts man pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he killed his 80-year-old roommate during an argument over Thanksgiving meal preparations. The Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said that Richard Lombardi is charged with assault and battery on an elderly person in the death of Frank Griswold in the home they shared, WBTS …
A Massachusetts man charged in connectino with the death of his 4-year-old daughter last week was ordered held without bail on Wednesday after a judge deemed him too dangerous to release. Francisco Ortiz, 34, called 911 on October 15 and told officers his daughter had fallen from a kitchen table. The responding officer found the …
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 …
A 20-year-old Massachusetts man charged in April with assault and battery after his 17-year-old girlfriend was found dead in his home has now been charged with murder. Navaeh Goddard had been reported missing from Providence, Rhode Island, in April 2022, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police were called to a home in Stow, Massachusetts, on April …
A Massachusetts mom who never returned after taking out the trash over the weekend was found dead dead Tuesday nearly 10 miles from her home. Thirty-five-year-old Cristian Montero, who lived in the same apartment buidling as Carol Flaz-Burgos, has been carrested and is expected to be charged with murder when an autopsy is completed, said …
A Kenyan man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend in Massachusetts has been extradited to the United States. Kenya Director of Public Prosecutions Renson Ingonga said that Kevin Kangethe left Nairobi on Sunday on his return to Boston, The Associated Press reported. “I wish to reiterate my commitment and support, whenever needed, to the …
Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell groomed Sandra Birchmore from the time she was 15. A previous investigation ruled her death a suicide.
The family of a Boston police officer has filed a wrongful death suit against the woman accused of killing him and two bars where the couple was drinking prior to his death. The suit names Karen Read, 44, and the bars C.F. McCarthy’s and Waterfall Bar & Grille in the the death of John O’Keefe, …
A 59-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested last month after he was apparently driving around to multiple communities outside Boston exposing himself to girls he spotted walking in the area. Paul St. Martin was already a convicted sex offender, according to Whitman Police Chief Timothy Hanlon, when his department charged him with open and gross lewdness …
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Karen Read have admitted in a new court filing on Friday that four jurors have contacted them concurring with a defense filing that the jury acquitted Read of murder and leaving the scene of a fatal crash at trial last month and deadlocked on one other charge. In the …
Three Massachusetts state troopers involved in the case against Karen Read for the death of her police officer boyfriend are now under an internal affairs investigation. All three of the troopers communicated with Trooper Michael Proctor, who admitted in court sending disparaging messages about Read to friends and colleagues. Proctor was suspended without pay earlier …
