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Gas Station Employee Killed In NJ Assault Had Moved To US To Give Daughters Better Life Gas Station Employee Killed In NJ Assault Had Moved To US To Give Daughters Better Life
Gas Station Employee Killed In NJ Assault Had Moved To US To Give Daughters Better Life Services have been set for a 55-year-old Jersey City gas station attendant who died months after being brutally beaten while at work. Fardin Ghadami Darounkolaee was attacked in August 2022 by 26-year-old Nixon Marquez at the Shell station on Marin Boulevard and 14th Street, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez previously said. Marquez, initially charged with assault and and weapons offenses, was slapped with first-degree murder after Fardin died at a hospital in Washington DC on Saturday, May 13, Suarez said. Fardin. a dad of two, was born in Qaemshahr, Iran. He immigrated from Iran to…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist
How NY Detective Realized Accused VA Attacker Was Also Officer's Wife's Attempted Rapist The 42-year-old man arrested for an assault and string of indecent exposures in Virginia also carried out a similar attack on the wife of a police officer on Long Island last year, authorities said. It was Suffolk County Police Det. Tom Corso who made the connection that in both the October 2021 case in New York and the Aug. 26 case in Herndon, the assailant was wearing just a tank top when he approached his jogging victims from behind and tried to sexually assault them, FOX5 reports. Sure enough, Juan Rodriguez Alfaro was ultimately identified as the suspect in both incidents, th…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings including one in Maryland and another in Virginia dating back to 1987, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third wo…

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by Joe Gomez