Authorities in Massachusetts announced Tuesday that they know who raped and killed a Harvard University graduate student in her apartment in January 1969. In a statement, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan identified Michael Sumpter, a career criminal who died in 2001, as the person who killed Jane Britton, 23. They said Britton was found beaten to …
Police in Philadelphia continue to investigate after four people were found shot execution-style in the basement of a home undergoing renovation. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the bodies of two unidentified men and women were discovered in the West Philadelphia home at around noon on Monday. Police said all four victims had gunshot wounds to the …
The latest affidavit indicated that the 17-year-old was struck in the neck with a 45-pound dumbbell
On Wednesday, Michigan officials released two dash cam videos showing a police cruiser running over an armed murder suspect as he fled on foot on the interstate. According to The Grand Rapids Press, police said Adam Nolin, 33, shot and killed his girlfriend, Tia Randall, 27, at their Kent County home on September 27 then lead them …
Authorities recently confirmed that the remains found along a Tennessee interstate in 1985 are that of a New Hampshire girl who vanished a year earlier—but who wasn’t reported missing until last year. Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, Manchester Police Chief Carlo Capano, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigations director David Rausch announced in a statement issued to The New …
Testimony has begun in the murder trial for a Wisconsin man accused of killing his then-girlfriend’s mother, Clauddine Blanchard, who was allegedly abusing her daughter at the time. Missouri prosecutors have accused Nicholas Godejohn, 29, of being obsessed with ex-girlfriend Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother and plotting the June 14, 2015, stabbing death. On the first day of court proceedings, …
A baby in the U.K. is recovering after his mother was reportedly fatally shot in the stomach with a crossbow, forcing doctors to deliver him via an emergency caesarean. The Evening Standard reported that Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, 50, shot Sana Muhammad, 35, in front of her five children, ages 1, 4, 12, 15, and 17, as she …
A Louisiana woman called 911 to report her husband — who was a Jefferson Parish sheriff’s sergeant — had shot himself in the head. Sgt. Troy Smith later died in a hospital and the wife, 35-year-old Shantel Wagner, has been charged with murder. Nancy Grace looks at the evidence of suicide versus murder with forensics …
A Pennsylvania mother is accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter on Halloween by pushing her down a flight of basement stairs. Ciara Robinson, 25, was charged with third-degree murder in addition to voluntary and involuntary manslaughter for the October 31 death of Amatulah McLaughlin. According to WCAU, Robinson admitted to beating and punching McLaughlin while threatening to put her …
A female gang member who was 17 when she participated in the filmed torture and slaying of a 15-year-old Maryland girl learned her fate in court this week. WRC reported that Venus Romero Iraheta, now 18, was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison for the January 2017 murder of Damaris Alexandra Reyes Rivas. Iraheta previously confessed …
Police said the youngest sibling, age 14, was also wounded but managed to convince her mother to turn over the gun
Federico Luis Cruz, then 16, took the victim’s severed head home and videotaped himself talking to it
