A Virginia woman missing since late last year was found dead on Monday, and two people have been charged with her murder. Danville Police said that Debbie Ann Marrero was reported missing in November, the Chatham Star Tribune reports. Then, on Monday, they got a tip from the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office that led them …
Virginia police shot and killed a man in the process of butchering his family with 10-inch, curved dagger that resembled a meat cleaver. A woman in her 30s, described as the attackers daughter, and another woman in her 50s — the attacker’s wife — were killed. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said his department …
A North Carolina mom who left home 24 years ago for a Christmas shopping trip and never returned has been found alive and safe. Michele Hundley Smith, now 62, left home on December 9, 2001, to travel to a K-Mart in Martinsville, Virginia, 18 miles from her home in Eden, North Carolina, the Rockingham County …
Investigators are looking for an active duty Navy reservist after finding his wife dead in their kitchen’s freezer. David Varela, 38, has not shown up for work at Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown or answered calls from his supervisor since Lina Guerra, 39, was reported missing on February 2, the Virginian Pilot reports. Guerra’s brother …
A Virginia woman and her boyfriend were arrested this week when police responded to their home for a domestic disturbance and found their 5-month-old daughter with injuries “that required immediate medical intervention.” The Culpeper Police Department said the infant was rushed to UVA-Culpeper Medical Center and later transferred to UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville, where …
A Virginia jury on Monday found Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in a convoluted plot hatched with his Brazilian au pair lover to kills his wife and pin it on a stranger lured from a fetish website. Banfield was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph …
The Brazilian au pair at the center of an elaborate plot to kill her boss’s wife continued her testimony on Wednesday in Brendan Banfield’s murder trial. “I thought of it as being the right thing to do,” Juliana Peres Magalhães said of her decision to take a plea deal and testify against Banfield, according to …
The trial of a former IRS officer accused of killing his wife and another man got under way Tuesday with opening statements and testimony from the prosecution’s star witness — the Brazilian au pair Brendan Banfield was having an affair with at the time of the murders. Prosecutors contend that Banfield stabbed his wife to …
A 39-year-old Virginia man was arrested Thursday and charged with six counts of sex crime against children. Gregory Johnson faces three counts of rape, two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, and one count of forcible sodomy, the Bedford Police Department said. The department released no further information about the case but thanked …
