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Mass Man Stabbed Wife 28 Times In CT Home, Left Body For Daughter-In-Law To Find: Jury
A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing his estranged wife at a Connecticut home in 2023.
Wilkid Valcinord, 60, of Chicopee, was convicted of murder on April 2, 2026, following a jury trial in Superior Court in Hartford, according to Hartford Judicial District State’s Attorney Sharmese L. Walcott.
Prosecutors said the case centered on a planned attack that crossed state lines.
Evidence showed Valcinord drove from Chicopee to East Hartford on the night of June 17, 2023. Investigators said he went there with the intent to kill his wife, Andra Brown.
Hours later, the sc…
CT Coach Gets 6½ Years For Raping Students At NY High School: DA
A Connecticut man who worked inside a New York high school now faces years behind bars for abusing two teenage students.
Reid Kappler, 32, of Plainfield, was sentenced last week in Ulster County Court, New York, to six-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, according to the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. Kappler pleaded guilty in January to three counts of third-degree rape.
Prosecutors said Kappler abused two students, ages 15 and 16, at Saugerties High School during 2023 and 2024. At the time, he worked as a custodian and wrestling co…
‘Call Me Daddy' Creepy Church Leader, Soccer Coach Raped Girl Before Kidnapping Her To Mexico
Kevin Esterly — the Pennsylvania man who ran off to Mexico with a teenage girl in 2018 — has now been convicted of repeatedly raping the same victim when she was a child, prosecutors announced on Wednesday, March 5.
The disturbing allegations first emerged when the victim came forward to police in February 2025, saying Esterly had sexually abused her for years, beginning when she was a child.
A jury convicted Esterly, now 53, of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and endangering the welfare of children following a trial that began with jury selection on …
Community Rallies For Family Of Missing Woman Found Dead In NY Woods Amid Homicide Probe
The community is rallying to support the family of Kathleen Harrison Trent, the missing Riverhead woman identified as the victim found dead in a wooded area in Manorville, as a homicide investigation continues.
Trent, 63, of Forge Road in Riverhead, was reported missing on Jan. 29 after she had not been seen or heard from since Jan. 27, according to authorities.
Her body was discovered in a wooded area on Connecticut Avenue, south of River Road, at 3:21 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, Suffolk County Police said.
Detectives believe her death to be criminal in nature following a preliminary inve…
New Evidence Found Near Nancy Guthrie’s Home: Bloody Glove, Stone With Blood Droplet
A bloody glove and a stone with a blood droplet have been discovered near the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, who has been missing since Sunday, Feb. 1.
According to a report by Tucson NBC-TV affiliate KVOA, a local couple found the items in the desert less than a mile from Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson.
The couple, who requested anonymity, said they spotted the glove under their car’s headlights on the night of Tuesday, Feb. 11. A second glove, appearing to match the first, was found 10 feet away.
T…
CT Man Guilty Of Gas Station Shooting That Killed Young Father, Wounded Man: State
A 30-year-old Hartford man was convicted this week in a deadly 2023 gas station shooting that killed a young father and wounded another man, authorities said.
Chan Williams-Bey, 30, of Hartford, was found guilty on multiple charges tied to a shooting at a Sunoco gas station on Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford on Aug. 6, 2023, the Office of the State’s Attorney said.
Williams-Bey was convicted of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm, first-degree assault, and first-degree violation of conditions of release, prosecutors said.
Hartford officers rushed to the gas station after a ShotSpotter…
Suspect In 1997 Murders Of NY Army Vet, Toddler Daughter Arrested In Florida: Report
Nearly 30 years after an Army veteran single mother and her toddler daughter were found murdered on Long Island, a suspect is in custody, ABC News reports.
Andrew Dykes, 66, was arraigned in a Florida courtroom Wednesday, Dec. 3, on two counts of murder in the deaths of Tanya Denise Jackson and her daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes, according to the outlet. Dykes is the child’s father.
The charges stem from a warrant issued out of Nassau County, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Cold Case Background
Jackson, 26, was found dismembered in June 1997 at Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview…
New Mugshot Shows Son Accused Of Killing Parents At Their Long Island Deli
A beloved couple brutally killed inside their longtime deli on Long Island are being remembered as their son faces charges in their deaths.
Vito Dambrosio of Seaford, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbings of his parents, Antonio "Tony" Dambrosio and Angela Pulisciano, both from Seaford, inside A & A Italian Deli in Bethpage on Thursday, Dec. 4, Nassau County Police announced on Friday, Dec. 5.
According to a report by Fox 5, Dambrosio allegedly attacked a coffee shop clerk less than 20 minutes before the killings, slap…
Former Fox Affiliate TV Anchor Accused Of Stabbing Mother To Death
A former local TV news anchor is accused of stabbing her mother to death and has been charged with first-degree murder, authorities said.
Police were dispatched at about 7:50 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31 to a “reported cutting” at a home in Wichita, Kansas.
Responding officers found a woman outside who was later identified as Angelynn “Angie” Mock, 47. Inside, they found her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, “unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds,” according to a department statement.
Avers was transported to a local hospital, where she died later Friday morning, police said. The …
CT Man, 20, Charged After Admitting He Killed His Mother, Police Say
A quiet New Canaan neighborhood turned into a crime scene overnight after a young man allegedly confessed to killing his mother.
Police say the suspect, 20-year-old Sebastian Van Stockum, called 911 from a home on Gerdes Road around 10:35 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, and told dispatchers he had killed his mother.
Officers responding to the area of South Avenue and Gerdes Road initially heard a man yelling from the woods, according to New Canaan Police. When they arrived, they found a woman unresponsive inside the residence.
Police and emergency crews attempted lifesaving measures, but the victim …
