Mother accused of killing baby in microwave could face death penalty
Los Angeles Times - Jun 24, 2011
A Sacramento woman accused of killing her 6-week-old daughter in a microwave was arraigned Thursday on murder charges that make her eligible for the death penalty if she is convicted. Ka Yang, 29, was arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court on one count ...
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The Associated Press Man claims self-defense, heat of passion in 1990 triple homicide
The Salinas Californian - Jun 30, 2011
Rios, 60, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife and her cousin, and faces second-degree murder in the death of his son. He also faces special allegations of multiple counts of murder and using a firearm during a ...
Daughter to testify against father in slaying of mother, brother, relative Monterey County Herald
Family holds memorial for Jessica Syzak
Port Huron Times Herald - 8 hours ago
Jessica's father, Scott Syzak, 43, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for the 1995 murder of his infant daughter. "I think she's finally going to be free," said Jessica's great-aunt, Beverly Hubble of Port Huron. ...
Indiana man convicted in daughter's '95 death is dragged into Mich. court for ... The RepublicThe Child Cases: Lessons From Canada
NPR - - Jun 30, 2011
She was a young, single mother. She was impoverished, she was on welfare." In his autopsy report, Smith speculated that Marquardt had killed her child because she had acted out of anger over the chaos in her own life. She was a teen mother with a ...
Daughter Arrested in Mother's Murder
MyFox Houston - Jun 29, 2011
HOUSTON - It was April 30, 2009: Houston Police gathered outside a townhouse where a 32-year-old woman had been shot and killed. Witnesses told investigators they saw a man dressed in black run from the home. "She lived with her children and her fiancé ...
Stepfather abused my mom, daughter says at man's slaying trial
Florida Today - Jun 30, 2011
During opening statements, prosecutors said Williams killed his wife because she had left him for another man. Earlier in the week, jurors saw a videotape of Williams at a convenience store in Mims buying cigarettes and beer after the shooting and also ...
Boyfriend charged in 3-year-old's death
Adrian Daily Telegram - - Jun 30, 2011
A Pittsford man faces life in prison after being charged Wednesday with murder in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter. James David Campbell, 29, was arrested and charged with felony murder, torture and first-degree ...
Three-year-old girl's grandfather says murder suspect told the girl's mother ... The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
McLoud man enters not guilty plea in child's murder case
Shawnee News Star - - Jun 29, 2011
A McLoud man charged with first-degree murder in the October child abuse death of his girlfriend's child pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Pottawatomie County District Court. Jason William Cline, 27, appeared for arraignment, ...
Old Lyme man gets 40 years in murder of 3-year-old
Norwich Bulletin - - Jun 29, 2011
Andrew's mother, Sarah Slyter, said she had grown used to her son crawling into bed with her and whispering “Momma, guess what? I has a secret,” and then proceeding to tell her it was his “birfday.” She broke down in tears, calling the death a ...
Man gets life for killing pregnant mistress
MiamiHerald.com - Jun 30, 2011
Authorities say Littleton killed 25-year-old Samira Watkins because she refused to abort the baby he fathered. He was married at the time and has a child. Littleton met Watkins while standing guard at the air station in August 2009. ...
Jury finds Littleton guilty Pensacola News Journal
Delanco man sentenced to 24 years in strangling of girlfriend's grandfather ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - - 12 hours ago
Still is the father of Kristana Berger's 9-month-old daughter. Berger said she didn't know how or when she would tell the child that her father murdered her great-grandfather. "It's going to come out eventually," Berger said. ...
Judge upholds first-degree murder charge in infant's starvation | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - - Jul 1, 2011
Third-degree murder carries a 20- to 40-year prison term. "It's almost impossible for a human being - at least this human being - to get their head around the fact that a mother . . . would deliberately set out to starve her child to death," Lerner ...
Toney man gets life sentence for killing his wife
al.com (blog) - - Jul 1, 2011
The couple had argued on the morning of the shooting, and their daughter testified that her mother had yelled for her to call 911 in the minutes before the shooting. Arlene Oliphant was shot in the head, apparently as she stood at the sink of the ...
Kennedale man who killed family is sentenced to death
Fort Worth Star Telegram - - Jun 28, 2011
He may have had anger issues against Eddie and his wife, but what did his unborn daughter and Jodi do to deserve their beating?" Later, on the way to Southern California, Brissette said, Hummel threw away his wedding ring and the family pictures he ...
Man gets death sentence for killing his family Houston Chronicle
Man Charged with Shooting Pregnant Girlfriend and Her 4-Year-Old Daughter
Patch.com - - Jun 30, 2011
Police have charged him with first-degree murder in the deaths of Alicia Avery, 25, and daughter Darry'el Parker. "We believe that this is our suspect, and he has been charged at this time," Johnson said. Eggleston is currently held in Baltimore City, ...
Wright found guilty of murdering 5-month-old son
Zanesville Times Recorder - Jun 29, 2011
ZANESVILLE — Dale Wright bent his head slightly and shook it back and forth as the guilty verdict was read Wednesday in his murder trial. It was the only reaction from the man as he was convicted of murdering his 5-month-old son, Dash Christopher ...
Wright Murder Trial Finishes 2nd Day WHIZGuilty ruling in family's New Year's Eve free-for-all
Delmarva Now - - 10 hours ago
As the fight escalated, Nock's father repeatedly asked his wife for help. "My wife came to my aid. I was face down on the couch and a commotion occurred behind me," he said. "I thought he was being killed," said Marietta Nock. APNewsBreak: Appeal filed in mother-baby killing
The Associated Press - Jun 29, 2011
BOSTON (AP) — A British man who was convicted of fatally shooting his wife and 9-month-old daughter in 2006 has filed an appeal, arguing that he should get a new trial because police searched his Massachusetts home without a warrant when they came to ...
Man gets 7 years for DUI crash that killed boy
Chicago Tribune - - Jun 28, 2011
In an emotional victim-impact statement to Skokie Judge William O'Brien, the boy's father, Bulmaro Santos, wrote that since his son was killed he has been tormented by thoughts of “what if.” “(What if) just that one split second, choices had been ...
Man granted new trial in Glenpool double killing
Tulsa World - - Jul 1, 2011
Tackett, who was then pregnant with a child she said was Browning's, survived and was the prosecution's key witness. She indicated that Browning's co-defendant, Joel Shane Pethel, shot her and her aunt and uncle after the three were bound with duct ...
Seasoned, well-known lawyer faces a big challenge
Boston Globe - - Jun 30, 2011
JW Carney Jr., one of the state's best known criminal defense attorneys, has represented people accused of horrific crimes - alleged child killers, men charged with bludgeoning and poisoning their wives, and a man who killed two people when he shot up ...
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The Republic - Jun 29, 2011
A St. Louis-area man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his daughter's boyfriend. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 50-year-old David Fugate of Cedar Hill in Jefferson County was sentenced Tuesday in the 2010 ...
Man charged in wife's murder
SunHerald.com - - Jun 29, 2011
The woman, from Arkansas, had been in the Navy 14 years. The petty officer 1st class was a logistic specialist with the Seabee Readiness Group in Gulfport. She was a survivor of breast cancer, friends said, and had a son who no longer lived at home. ...
Lincoln Park Mother Charged In Case Of 5 Year-Old Son Killed By Dog
MyFox Detroit - Jun 27, 2011
(WJBK) - Kyle Holland was just 5 years old, a little boy with a big smile, when he was killed in his own home last summer. A wolf dog, kept as a family pet, attacked and mauled the child. Kyle was handicapped, and wore braces on his legs so he could ...
DETROIT: Mother charged with negligence in fatal dog mauling of boy Southgate News HeraldMurder charge expected after woman dies
Youngstown Vindicator - Jun 30, 2011
The 20-year-old mother died today at St. Elizabeth Health Center. Patrell Scott, 21, of Park Vista Drive, has been charged with felonious assault in connection with the shooting. He is father of Day's young daughter. Scott had been arraigned Friday ...
Youngstown Woman Shot in Neck by Boyfriend Dies WYTVThe Boy in the Attic: De Soto mother Rachel Perez discusses horrific child ...
De Soto Explorer - - Jul 1, 2011
Prosecutors initially charged Perez, who was four months pregnant with her fourth child, with child abuse and child endangerment, allegations that could have sent her to prison for 41 months. Then they added attempted second-degree murder. ...
Focus put on Bowling's temper
Beckley Register-Herald - - Jun 30, 2011
“How do you tell your kids you killed their mother?” Painter claimed Bowling asked. Painter also testified that Bowling had told him that he had wanted to kill Tresa many times in the past, but not the day of the shooting. ...
Mother Sentenced to Life for Son's Murder
KTVN - - Jun 30, 2011
A woman who pleaded guilty to murdering her infant son in February 2010 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Josela Posada pleaded guilty to first degree murder on March 31 st . Prosecutors say Posada's son Kristopher died of multiple traumatic ...
Husband accused of killing wife and mother-in-law in court
WPDE - - Jun 29, 2011
"This family is without a mother and daughter, and it's heartbreaking for everyone involved," said Captain Michael Nunn with the Florence County Sheriff's Office. An arrest warrant says someone saw Gopaldas at the crime scene, and he admitted to being ...
$200K bail remains for West Deptford man accused of stabbing girlfriend
NJ.com - - Jul 1, 2011
Authorities said Rodriguez stabbed the woman several times that afternoon in the torso at or near the couple's apartment in Red Bank Run's R building. Two household children - a two-year-old daughter of both Rodriguez and Hickman along with Hickman's ...
Woman Faces Only Misdemeanor Charges in DUI-Related Death of Young Son
fox4kc.com - Jun 29, 2011
Her ex-husband, Tanis Gregg, says that she deserves more for killing their son. "I look out on my back deck, and he's still there," said Gregg. Ottawa Police quickly treated the driveway as a crime scene, and a blood sample later showed that Payne was ...
Mother charged in child's death KCTV Kansas CityParole rejected for convicted killer Kenneth Donney
San Jose Mercury News - Jun 28, 2011
SANTA CRUZ - District Attorney Bob Lee announced Tuesday that parole was denied for Kenneth Donney who was convicted in 1995 for the killing of his wife, Nina Leibman. Donney, an attorney, had an argument with His wife over their pending divorce and he ...
Man gets 10-year term for killing 3-year-old boy
So Md News - - Jun 29, 2011
On the one hand, she had family members of Myron Antonio Gibson telling her that he was a kind, affectionate man, the kind of person you could rely on for anything and who would not hurt a fly, let alone a child. And yet in May a jury had found Gibson, ...
Stepfather may face capital murder charge
Brownsville Herald - Jun 29, 2011
The stepfather, a 28-year-old Mexican national, later confessed to hitting the child with his fists because he was upset that Andres was crying, vomiting and had diarrhea, Tittle said. The suspect will likely go before a judge today. The mother ...
Affidavits detail arrest of Texas woman charged with killing her son
The Union Leader - - Jun 24, 2011
“The woman said she was fine. Trooper Basteri said she was checking the area and that her car matched the description of a car that may have been involved 'in something up in Maine.'” What happened next has been blacked out of the affidavit, ...
Most of McCrery affidavit blacked out; Accused of killing son in Hampton ... Foster's Daily Democrat
Man To Receive Lethal Injection For Murdering Family
ThirdAge - - 20 hours ago
"The only peace of mind that I look forward to is the day John Hummel stops breathing the air that he so violently deprived his murder victims from breathing," said Karen Sanders after the penalty decision, as quoted by UPI. Sanders lost her daughter ...
Man arrested in murder of Taft child
Bakersfield Now - - Jun 23, 2011
23, and Thursday the Kern County coroner's office ruled the child died from multiple blunt force injuries. Wedel is being held on charges of murder, torture and abuse. When he was killed, James was living with his father's ex-girlfriend, Stormie Porter ...
Woman's Boyfriend Accused Of Killing 3-Year-Old KERO-TV 23