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COLD CASE: Serial Abuser Learns Fate In Court For 1981 Rapes In Maryland: State's Attorney COLD CASE: Serial Abuser Learns Fate In Court For 1981 Rapes In Maryland: State's Attorney
Cold CASE: Serial Abuser Learns Fate In Court For 1981 Rapes In Maryland: State's Attorney A 67-year-old man may spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to rape and sexual assault stemming from a pair of attacks dating back to 1981 in Montgomery County, authorities announced on Thursday. Marion Pearson, now living in North Carolina, pleaded guilty in October to second-degree rape and sex assault for the attacks of two victims in separate attacks in April and June 1981.  On Thursday, Dec. 19, authorities announced that Pearson was sentenced by a judge in Montgomery County to 40 years in prison suspending all but 17 years to serve and two years of superv…
Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Decades Later Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Decades Later
Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Decades Later Justice has been served for a Maryland family more than four decades after Vickie Lynn Belk was abducted and murdered in Maryland. Last year, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced that District resident Andre Taylor, now 63, was arrested on charges that included rape and murder in connection to Belk's death, who was found on Metropolitan Church Road near Route 227 after she was killed 45 years ago.  Vickie Lynn BelkCharles County Sheriff He was convicted in July by a jury after just two hours of deliberation following a nine-day trial. "This case occurred more tha…
Man Accused Of 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Convicted Man Accused Of 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Convicted
Man Accused Of 1979 Rape, Murder Of Maryland Mother Convicted Justice has been served for a Maryland family more than four decades after Vickie Lynn Belk was abducted and murdered in Maryland. Last year, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced that District resident Andre Taylor was arrested on charges that included rape and murder in connection to Belk's death, who was found in Bryans Road on Metropolitan Church Road after she was killed 45 years ago.  Vickie Lynn BelkCharles County Sheriff On Friday, July 19, the state's attorney's office announced that Taylor was convicted by a jury after just two hours of deliberation following …
COLD CASE: Cops Seek Clues On Baltimore County Man Found Stabbed To Death On Couch 38 Years Ago COLD CASE: Cops Seek Clues On Baltimore County Man Found Stabbed To Death On Couch 38 Years Ago
Cold CASE: Cops Seek Clues On Baltimore County Man Found Stabbed To Death On Couch 38 Years Ago Police continue to search for clues on a 56-year-old man who was found stabbed to death on a Baltimore County couch 38 years ago. Officers responded to a family member’s report of a possible suicide at 206 Nicodemus Rd. in Reistertown shortly before 11:20 a.m. on April 1, 1986. There, they found Theodore Enoch Kelley Sr. on the living room couch with several stab wounds to the upper body, police said. Exactly thirty-eight years later, investigators still seek clues in the cold case and offer a cash reward of up to $2,000.  Fifty-six-year-old Theodore Kelly was found stabbed to dea…
Body Found In Maryland Field In 1998 Identified: Now It's Time To Find Her Killer, Sheriff Says Body Found In Maryland Field In 1998 Identified: Now It's Time To Find Her Killer, Sheriff Says
Body Found In Maryland Field In 1998 Identified: Now It's Time To Find Her Killer, Sheriff Says For 25 years, the body of LaQuanda Denise "Niecey" Williams was called Jane Doe. That changed last October, a few months after NBC aired a segment about the 1998 Charles County cold case, and a family member called police that very night. On Friday, March 22, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced that death of 31-year-old Niecey Williams has been ruled a homicide. But her story isn't over yet. “Learning the identity of Jane Doe after 25 years is a testament to the relentless dedication of our investigators," Sheriff Troy D. Berry said. "Today, we take a significant step forward in…
‘Mailbox Mix-Up:’ $30K Offered For Clues In Decades-Old Howard County Arson Case That Killed 2 ‘Mailbox Mix-Up:’ $30K Offered For Clues In Decades-Old Howard County Arson Case That Killed 2
‘Mailbox Mix-Up:’ $30K Offered For Clues In Decades-Old Howard County Arson Case That Killed 2 It’s been exactly 43 years since two people remembered as pillars of the Howard County community were killed by an arsonist yet to be identified and charged in a mystifying cold case. Joe Selby, the manager of Enchanted Forest, the former fairytale-themed amusement park on Route 40 in Ellicott City, and his wife, Betty, shared the last name as another large family that lived in the same county, according to police. After a brawl occurred at a local bar about five years earlier, detectives believe someone tried to retaliate by starting the fire that claimed their lives at 12102 Frederic…
State Police Seek Leads In Unsolved 'Heinous Crimes' Committed By Murderer Charged In Maryland State Police Seek Leads In Unsolved 'Heinous Crimes' Committed By Murderer Charged In Maryland
State Police Seek Leads In Unsolved 'Heinous Crimes' Committed By Murderer Charged In Maryland The truck driver arrested in connection to the 2006 murder of a woman found near a Frederick County rest stop may have been a serial killer, state police are cautioning. Maryland State Police investigators are seeking possible leads regarding White Springs, Florida resident Garry Artman, 64, who was on the run for nearly 20 years before being apprehended in September 2022 for his role in the murder of Dusty Shuck. On May 4, 2006, the 24-year-old's body was discovered near a Frederick County rest stop by a passing motorist, according to police. Shuck had last been seen at a New Mexico hotel …
Predator Who Targeted Woman 21 Years Ago Gets Life For 'Unimaginable' Rape In MD: Prosecutors Predator Who Targeted Woman 21 Years Ago Gets Life For 'Unimaginable' Rape In MD: Prosecutors
Predator Who Targeted Woman 21 Years Ago Gets Life For 'Unimaginable' Rape In MD: Prosecutors More than two decades after a 20-year-old woman was found raped and dropped unconscious in a ditch off the side of I-95 in Cecil County, justice has been served. Harford County resident Bryant Nakia White, 48, of Edgewood, was sentenced to multiple life sentences for the 2002 attack of a woman whose body was left on the side of the interstate off of Frenchtown Road near Port Deposit, prosecutors announced. Investigators said that at approximately 4 a.m. on April 6, 2002, a truck driver noticed the body of a woman - whose name has not been released "due to the nature of the crimes committed”…
Man Wanted For Sexual Assaults In Maryland, DC Charged After Nine Years: DOJ Man Wanted For Sexual Assaults In Maryland, DC Charged After Nine Years: DOJ
Man Wanted For Sexual Assaults In Maryland, DC Charged After Nine Years: DOJ A man with a checkered criminal past has been charged with sexual assault in Washington, DC and Maryland, federal authorities announced. District resident Dawayne Joseph Spriggs, 37, who also calls Prince George's County home in Maryland, was arraigned on a 2014 cold case involving a sexual assault involving a stranger at a DC Metro station in 2014. According to court documents, on July 6, 2014, Spriggs approached a stranger near the Minnesota Avenue Metro station at approximately 1 a.m., following her before physically and sexually assaulting her in an alley. Once the assault was over, th…
COLD CASE: FBI Names Killer Of Pamela Conyers 52 Years After Her Murder COLD CASE: FBI Names Killer Of Pamela Conyers 52 Years After Her Murder
Cold CASE: FBI Names Killer Of Pamela Conyers 52 Years After Her Murder A break has been made in the murder of a Maryland teen that went cold over 50 years ago. Through investigative genetic genealogy, police have identified Forrest Clude Williams III as the suspect believed to be behind the murder of 16-year-old Pamela Conyers in 1970, authorities announced during a press conference held on Friday, March 10 . Williams died in Virginia in 2018 of natural causes, they said. Investigators do not believe that Williams and Conyers knew each other before the murder. For over fifty years, officials have sought justice for the teen victim, with all leads going …
Four Decades Later, Police In Maryland Identify, Arrest Alleged Serial Rapist Four Decades Later, Police In Maryland Identify, Arrest Alleged Serial Rapist
Four Decades Later, Police In Maryland Identify, Arrest Alleged Serial Rapist A man accused of raping women in Prince George's County over forty years ago has been arrested, authorities say. Marion Edward Pearson Jr., 65, was linked to the crime through the FBI's National DNA Index System on Monday, Oct. 31 after Cold Case detectives submitted evidence from the open rape case to the system in March of 2022, according to Montgomery County Police. Pearson Jr. lived in Prince George's County, and frequented the University of Maryland/College Park area during the time of the crime. He had been arrested several times for assault, indecent exposure, and had recently been r…
$100K Reward Offered For Information On Violent 2003 Maryland Murder: State Police $100K Reward Offered For Information On Violent 2003 Maryland Murder: State Police
$100K Reward Offered For Information On Violent 2003 Maryland Murder: State Police Maryland State Police authorities are offering a massive $100,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction in connection to a 2003 murder in Carroll County. On Tuesday, Nov. 22, the agency issued a renewed call for the public’s assistance in tracking down a suspect or suspects who have been wanted for nearly two decades for the death of Westminster resident Richard Atkins, Jr., who was 30 years old at the time of his death. Officials say that Atkins was found by family members beaten to death at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2003, in his apartment in the 100 blo…
Suspect In Custody For 30-Year Cold Case Murder Of Virginia Teen Found In Maryland Suspect In Custody For 30-Year Cold Case Murder Of Virginia Teen Found In Maryland
Suspect In Custody For 30-Year Cold Case Murder Of Virginia Teen Found In Maryland Thirty years after a Virginia teen was brutally murdered in Maryland, police have identified and arrested a suspect in the cold case. Ron Wright, 47, of Wimauma, Florida, has been charged by Metropolitan Police investigators in DC for the 1992 murder of Falls Church, Virginia resident Ricardo Burbano, authorities announced on Thursday, Oct. 20. On Tuesday, March 31, 1992, officers from the Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland found Burbano unconscious in the back of a building in Hyattsville, where he was pronounced dead. The teen’s remains were transported to the Office o…
Feds Allege Man Obstructed Death Investigation Of University Of Maryland Football Coach's Son Feds Allege Man Obstructed Death Investigation Of University Of Maryland Football Coach's Son
Feds Allege Man Obstructed Death Investigation Of University Of Maryland Football Coach's Son A Maryland man is being accused of interfering with the investigation into the death of the son of University of Maryland football coach Mike Locksley, according to court documents. Meiko Locksley, 25, was shot in the chest and killed in September 2017 in Howard County in the 5500 block of Harpers Farm Road in Columbia, though no killer has ever been brought to justice for the murder. 4/24/92-9/3/17 pic.twitter.com/NPC6Gk2s2R — Michael Locksley (@CoachLocks) September 3, 2022 According to reports, Gaithersburg resident John Willie Kennedy, Jr. is the latest to bring renewed attention t…
Maryland State Police Investigators Crack 2006 Cold Case After Woman Found Near I-70 Rest Stop Maryland State Police Investigators Crack 2006 Cold Case After Woman Found Near I-70 Rest Stop
Maryland State Police Investigators Crack 2006 Cold Case After Woman Found Near I-70 Rest Stop Sixteen years after a young woman was found killed on I-70 in Frederick County, a suspect has been apprehended for her murder, state police announced. White Springs, Florida resident Garry Artman, 64, has been charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and second-degree assault for allegedly killing Dusty Myriah Shuck, 24, of Silver City, New Mexico in May 2006. On May 4, 2006, Shuck’s body was discovered near a Frederick County rest stop by a passing motorist, according to police. She had last been seen at a New Mexico hotel on April 24, 2006. Days later she was found wearing…
Maryland Cop Killer Confesses To 51-Year-Old Cold Case Maryland Cop Killer Confesses To 51-Year-Old Cold Case
Maryland Cop Killer Confesses To 51-Year-Old Cold Case A case that has been cold for over half a century has been solved after a killer admitted to the murder of a Maryland officer, authorities say. Authorities have arrested 71-year-old Larry David Smith, also known as Larry David Becker, after he admitted his involvement in the murder of Montgomery County Special Deputy Sheriff Capt. James Tappen Hall in 1971, according to Montgomery County police. Hall was found critically injured on the night of Saturday, Oct. 23, 1971, after a witness reported seeing a man lying face down in the southeast parking lot of the Manor Country Club in the 14…
40 Years Cold: Vigil Held For Unidentified Woman Found Dead In Maryland Park 40 Years Cold: Vigil Held For Unidentified Woman Found Dead In Maryland Park
40 Years Cold: Vigil Held For Unidentified Woman Found Dead In Maryland Park Four decades cold, but never forgotten.  A Maryland community is coming together to remember and hope to bring justice to a cold case that shook the community all those years ago, officials say. It's been over 40 years since the body of an unknown woman was found in a steamer truck by mushroom hunters in Gambrill State Park on Aug. 24, 1982. Her identity, and her killer, were never discovered, says the Maryland Missing Persons Network.  A vigil to bring awareness back to the case is being held beginning at 6:45 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Gambrills State Park Tea Room parking…
Laurel Man Pleads Guilty To 40-Year-Old Cold Case Murder Laurel Man Pleads Guilty To 40-Year-Old Cold Case Murder
Laurel Man Pleads Guilty To 40-Year-Old Cold Case Murder A 40-year-old cold case involving a young mother of four who was found dead is closer to justice after a Laurel man admitted to his role in the crime, authorities say. Howard Jackson Bradberry, 64, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the killing of Laney Lee McGadney, 28 in 1982, say Howard County officials. DNA evidence linked Bradberry to the crime in 2021, prompting his arrest, they said. On March 29, 1982, McGadney was leaving her Columbia apartment to walk to the grocery store when she was witnessed being abducted on Oakland Mills Road, according to officials. McGadney never m…