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Killer Serving Life Admits To Cold Case Maryland Murder: 'We Have Closure,' Family Says Killer Serving Life Admits To Cold Case Maryland Murder: 'We Have Closure,' Family Says
Killer Serving Life Admits To Cold Case Maryland Murder: 'We Have Closure,' Family Says Nearly five decades after 20-year-old Roseann “Ann” Sturtz vanished and was later found murdered, Howard County Police have officially closed the case—thanks to newly uncovered evidence and a confession from a man already serving a life sentence behind bars. Charles William Davis Jr., who has been housed at the Jessup Correctional Institution since 1978 for other crimes, admitted to killing Sturtz after detectives showed him a different photo of her that more closely resembled how she looked at the time of her death. The case remained unsolved for decades after Davis initially failed to ide…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Stabbing Suspect Surrenders, Confesses To 2014 Cold Case Baltimore Murders: Police Stabbing Suspect Surrenders, Confesses To 2014 Cold Case Baltimore Murders: Police
Stabbing Suspect Surrenders, Confesses To 2014 Cold Case Baltimore Murders: Police Scott Barnett walked into the Southeast District police station over the weekend in Baltimore and made a confession that cracked open a decade-old mystery, officials said. Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, Barnett, 45, requested to speak with detectives and admitted to fatally stabbing two people—41-year-old Terrill Lehman and 46-year-old Charles Webster—inside a home in the 1600 block of Ralworth Road in late November 2014, according to police. The pair had been reported missing by loved ones in December 2014, and despite extensive searches at the time, their remains were never …

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by Zak Failla
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Detectives: Leonia Woman's Killer Slipped Out, Then Circled Back When Daughter Woke Detectives: Leonia Woman's Killer Slipped Out, Then Circled Back When Daughter Woke
Detectives: Leonia Woman's Killer Slipped Out, Then Circled Back When Daughter Woke A Paterson gang member now charged with killing a Leonia woman in the garden apartment she shared with her daughter ran out when he heard the girl wake up, then circled back as if he was just arriving, investigators said. Nile Diakos, 35, was recorded on phone calls and in texts admitting that he killed Alicia Arnone by stabbing her in the neck and chest last Saturday, March 26, according to court papers. Authorities originally charged her former live-in boyfriend, Andrae Daniels of Lodi, with killing Arnone, 35. But new information emerged that led them to drop murder charges against him…

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by Jerry DeMarco