Tag: Murder
Md. man charged with stabbing three young female relatives to death as they slept
On August 19, the Prince Georges County Police Department announced that their homicide detectives arrested and charged 25-year-old Antonio Williams of Clinton, Maryland, after three of his young female relatives […]
Driver that plowed into Charlottesville, Va. crowd charged with murder
(Updated) Skirmishes between white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protestors attending a “Unite the Right” rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and then deadly on August 12 […]
Woman who murdered her 10-year-old cousin sentenced to death
Sammantha Allen, 28, of Phoenix, was sentenced to death on August 7 after being found guilty of murdering her 10-year-old cousin, Ame Deal, back in 2011. As punishment for taking […]
Mom who abandoned her baby in Ariz. desert to die sentenced 20 years
In September, 2016, 23-year-old Ashley Attson of Chinle, Arizona, placed her 17-month-old baby daughter in a stroller and pushed her into the nearby desert on the Navajo Reservation in Apache […]
Ga. grandmother charged after her two dogs maul her toddler grandson to death
Sandra Adams, 70, of Hartwell, Georgia, was arrested and charged with murder after her two pit bulls attacked and killed her 20-month-old grandson at her home on August 2. The […]
Investigation continues into cruise ship murder of Kristy Manzanares
Because the bludgeoning murder of 39-year-old Kristy Manzanares took place in international waters, the FBI is actively investigating her homicide. Kristy was killed during a July 25 cruise aboard the Emerald […]
Wife bludgeoned to death by husband aboard cruise ship: ‘She would not stop laughing at me’
(Updated June 6, 2021) Kenneth Manzanares, the Utah businessman who admitted to beating his wife to death aboard a cruise ship in Alaska in 2017 was sentenced on June 3, […]
Mass. woman charged after boyfriend found dismembered in her closet
Kathryn Podgurski, 33, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was taken into police custody on July 22 after the remains of her boyfriend, Joseph Shaw, 44, were found in a closet in her […]
Did a loud noise startle police into shooting and killing Justine Damond?
Possible answers are beginning to emerge as to why Justine Damond was shot and killed by Minneapolis police after calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault in her South […]
Questions remain in fatal police shooting of Minneapolis bride-to-be
(Updated July 18) Originally from Australia, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, 40, an American citizen engaged to be married next month, called police late in the evening on July 15 to report […]
