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Woman Found Dead Hours Before Sentencing

Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi killed husband in 2017, stashed body in basement for months

(Newser) - A Connecticut woman who admitted killing her husband and leaving his body in the basement of their Burlington home for months was found dead on Wednesday, hours before she was due to be sentenced. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, pleaded guilty to manslaughter earlier this year in the 2017 death of 84-year-old...

Camera Captures Girl, 12, Allegedly Killing Cousin, 8, as She Slept

Girls were visiting their grandmother in Tennessee

(Newser) - A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee has been charged with murder, accused of smothering her 8-year-old cousin as the younger girl slept, the AP reports. A relative said they had been arguing over an iPhone. A security camera recorded the killing, inside the bedroom they shared on July 15 in Humboldt,...

Prosecutors: Deputy Shot Woman Over Pot of Hot Water

Sean Grayson, now fired, said he feared for his safety when he shot Sonya Massey

(Newser) - The Illinois deputy charged with murdering a woman who called 911 shot her in the face after she handled a pot of steaming water, which he viewed as a threat, prosecutors say. Sean Grayson of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Springfield, Illinois, is facing three counts of murder...

Man Gets Life in Prison for 'Sadistic' Plot to Kill TV Host

Gavin Plumb had 'unhealthy sexual obsession' with Holly Willoughby, UK judge said

(Newser) - Holly Willoughby has a cop in Minnesota to thank for saving her life, from thousands of miles across the pond. The 43-year-old British model and TV personality was the target of a rape and murder plot at the hands of Gavin Plumb, who last week was found guilty of the...

Parents Charged With Murder After Toddler Dies in Hot Car

Deja and Justin Rollins allegedly left 4 kids in a car in Arkansas while another got treatment

(Newser) - An Arkansas couple has been charged with capital murder after one of their young children left inside a hot vehicle died from apparent heat exhaustion, authorities said. Prosecutors in Little Rock filed the murder charges Monday against Deja and Justin Rollins following their 2-year-old's death. They've pleaded not...

Police: Dead Man's Thumb Taken to Access Payment App

Fasil Teklemariam, 53, was found dead in Washington, DC, in early April

(Newser) - The crime itself was grisly, the aftermath even more so. Authorities in Washington, DC, say Fasil Teklemariam was found dead in his bedroom on April 5; he had been stabbed in the stomach with enough force that his spine was struck, WTOP reports via an autopsy report. One of his...

In Case of Missing Wife, a 'Stunning and Swift Resolution'

Arizona's Daniel Paduchowski pleads guilty to murder, is expected to get 16 years without parole

(Newser) - Less than a week after an Arizona man reported his wife missing , launching an expansive search that quickly turned into a criminal investigation, he admitted to killing her and pleaded guilty to murder, authorities announced Friday. As part of a deal with prosecutors in Coconino County, Daniel Paduchowski pleaded guilty...

DA: Man Laid in Wait Before Pushing Stranger Into Train

Transient charged with murder in BART attack on woman, 74

(Newser) - A homeless man in San Francisco has been charged with murder after allegedly pushing a stranger into a moving train. Police say Trevor Belmont, 49, approached 74-year-old Corazon Dandan as a train was arriving at the Powell Street Bay Area Rapid Transit station around 11pm on Monday. Dandan was then...

Friend Arrested in Death of UPenn Student Found in Park
Neo-Nazi Guilty of
Killing Former Classmate
UPDATED
Jul 4, 2024 4:45 AM CDT

Neo-Nazi Guilty of Killing Former Classmate

Atomwaffen Division celebrated Samuel Woodward's murder of gay teen

(Newser) - A member of the secretive Atomwaffen Division neo-Nazi group has been found guilty of murdering a former high school classmate in California. Samuel Woodward, 26, was arrested days after the body of Blaze Bernstein was found in an Orange County park in early 2018. After his arrest, it emerged that...

Man Who Reported Wife Missing Is Now Charged

Daniel Paduchowski made unusual movements before calling police, is suspected of killing her

(Newser) - An Arizona man who reported his wife missing on Sunday is now suspected of killing her, police say. Daniel Paduchowski told Flagstaff police that Kelly Paduchowski, 45, went for a run and swim around 1:30pm local time on Sunday but failed to return. Her phone had pinged near Schultz...

Man Who Sought Revenge at Wrong Home Gets 60 Years

Kevin Bui pleaded guilty to fire that killed 5 Senegalese family members in Denver

(Newser) - A Colorado man was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday for killing five members of an extended Senegalese family, including two infants, in a house fire. Kevin Bui, now 20, was the last of three teens charged in the Aug. 5, 2020 Denver fire to be sentenced to reduced...

Car Dealer's Sordid Case a 'Gruesome Show of Machismo'

Texas Monthly digs into a murder-for-hire case involving once-prominent Austin businessman Erik Maund

(Newser) - It could have gone so many different ways, write Katy Vine and Ana Worrel for Texas Monthly . Instead, two people are dead and four others have been convicted in their murders, including a prominent car dealer in Austin . The story the journalists unwind is one that devolves into a "...

4 Prison Guards Charged With Murder: 'It's George Floyd 3.0'

Fifth officer hit with manslaughter charges in the death of Othel Moore Jr. in Missouri

(Newser) - Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who died after the officers pepper-sprayed him and covered his face while in custody at a correctional facility, according to a complaint filed Friday. The guards at...

Principal Who Had His Pregnant Girlfriend Killed Learns His Fate

Cornelius Green and the hitman, his longtime friend, each get 2 life sentences

(Newser) - Jocelyn Peters was 31 weeks pregnant, in bed at her Missouri apartment working on baby shower invitations when a man entered and shot her in the eye, killing her. Cornelius Green, her boyfriend and the unborn child's father, later called 911 to report he'd discovered her body. On...

FBI Links Serial Rapist to Murders in National Park

2 women were found with their throats slashed in Shenandoah National Park in 1996

(Newser) - Nearly three decades after two young women were found with their throats slashed in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, federal authorities announced Thursday that they have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the person they believe was responsible for the killings. The bodies of Julianne "Julie" Williams,...

Prosecutors: LI Serial Killer Suspect Penned a Murder Guide

How-to manual reportedly includes lessons learned, reminders to check for cameras

(Newser) - When authorities charged alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann with his fifth and sixth murders earlier this month, they referred to a document that had helped the architect avoid detection. It was, in fact, a "blueprint for murder" that may now become "damning evidence against him,"...

In St. Louis, a Long Stretch of Unsolved Murders
In St. Louis, a Long Stretch
of Unsolved Murders
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Jun 16, 2024 1:15 PM CDT

In St. Louis, a Long Stretch of Unsolved Murders

Marshall Project examines the problem

(Newser) - St. Louis has long been known for having one of the highest murder rates in the nation. An investigation by the Marshall Project reveals a troubling tangent to that: A surprising number of the city's killings over the last decade remain unsolved. The city had approximately 1,900 homicides...

Pamela Smart: Yes, I'm Responsible for the Murder
34 Years Later, Pamela Smart
Accepts Blame for Murder
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jun 15, 2024 12:30 PM CDT

34 Years Later, Pamela Smart Accepts Blame for Murder

She is serving a life term in husband's slaying, hopes NH governor will commute her sentence

(Newser) - For three decades while serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, Pamela Smart maintained she had nothing to do with her husband's 1990 murder. That story has finally changed. In a video released Tuesday, Smart says she's learned to take responsibility for the killing through a...

Philadelphia Journalist Shot Dead at Home
Man Sentenced for
Murder of Philly Journalist
UPDATED
Jun 14, 2024 11:24 AM CDT

Man Sentenced for Murder of Philly Journalist

20-year-old Robert Davis gets 15 to 30 years for murder of Josh Kruger

(Newser) - A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the murder of Philadelphia freelance journalist Josh Kruger. Robert Davis was arrested three weeks after Kruger, 39, was shot seven times in his home in October last year, the New York Times reports. He pleaded guilty...

1 of 2 Kidnapped Girls Found Dead After Mother Killed

'These are unspeakable crimes,' Louisiana sheriff says

(Newser) - A Louisiana woman was found dead in her home Thursday, and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later in Mississippi—one dead and the other alive, police said. A Louisiana resident who had dated the woman was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in connection with the deaths and...

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