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Maryland Teens Charged In Double Homicide Linked To Pennsylvania Boy’s Killer's Gun
As the anniversary of Jason Rivera’s tragic killing approaches, investigators have uncovered a web of violence spanning two states, connecting the gun used to kill the 13-year-old in South Lebanon Township to a Maryland double homicide and two teenage suspects charged as adults. Jason Rivera’s life was cut short on Feb. 15, 2022, when he was shot 12 times outside his uncle’s apartment in South Lebanon Township. The seventh grader’s murder weapon—a Glock 26—has since become a key piece in a broader investigation, tied to multiple violent crimes in Maryland. The same gun was linked to a drive…
Police & Fire
Double Homicide On I-95 Ramp Leads To Arrest: PA State Police
A seemingly routine crash on a Delaware County highway ramp turned into a double homicide investigation, Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday, Dec. 9. The incident occurred on Friday, Sept. 13, around 9:58 p.m., when troopers responded to a crash on the I-95 North ramp to I-476 North, near Exit 1 (Macdade Boulevard). Troopers discovered two vehicles— a grey 2010 Chevrolet Malibu and a blue 2010 Mazda 5—on the shoulder of the ramp. The driver of the Malibu, Joshua Waltz, was standing behind his disabled car when the Mazda struck the concrete barrier, veered into the Malibu, and hit Wal…
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Ex-BF Convicted Of Murdering Mom Of His Daughter Days After Jail Release: PA AG
A Cambria County man has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing the mother of his daughter just days after being released from jail, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Christopher Rowe, 50, was also found guilty of aggravated assault and filing false reports to law enforcement after a jury trial. He now faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced in early January 2025, according to the release. Rowe had publicly threatened his former girlfriend, Kaylene Roedel, at her workplace just days before she went missing in 2016, off…
Police & Fire
Boyfriend Charged With Murder Of Pregnant PA Woman: Police
The murder of a pregnant Delaware County woman has left her family grieving and her boyfriend behind bars, according to police. Tanyiah Bell, who was eight months pregnant, was brutally murdered two days after celebrating her 19th birthday, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up for her mother, Tylicia Bell. Kaiheem Jerelle Williams, 19, of Lansdowne, was charged with First-Degree Murder for shooting and killing his girlfriend in the 200 block of North Wycombe Avenue on Thursday, Nov. 14, the Lansdowne Police Department said in a Thursday, Nov. 19 new release. Police have not officia…
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Sword-Wielding Drug Dealer Convicted PA Murder: DA
A convicted drug dealer is back behind bars again, this time for murdering a man with a sword, the Berks County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, Oct. 10. William Smoot, 50, Exeter Township, was convicted of First-Degree Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder for stabbing DelCollo multiple times with a sword on Thursday, Oct. 10, according to the Berks County District Attorney's Office. Smoot has been held in the Berks County Prison while awaiting sentencing, the district attorney's office said. A sentencing date was not available at the time of publication. Smoot's accompl…
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PA Woman Who Shot, Dismembered Parents With Chainsaw Sentenced: DA
An Abington woman charged with shooting her parents and dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw was sentenced Monday, Sept. 30, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office told Daily Voice the following day. Verity Beck, 45, pleaded "guilty but mentally ill" to two first-degree murder counts, the district attorney's office said. She was given two life sentences that will be served concurrently. Beck will also receive mental health treatment while serving her prison time, according to the district attorney's office. Beck's parents were found dead in their Jenkintown home on Tue…
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'Tired Of People F—ing With Me:' Delaware Linen Shooting Suspect, Victims ID'd By DA
Authorities have named the suspected shooter at Delaware County Linens as 61-year-old Wilbert Rosado Ruiz. Ruiz is accused of killing brothers 29-year-old Leovanny Pena Pena and 26-year-old Giguenson Pena Pena, and sending three others to the hospital early Wednesday, May 22, officials tell Daily Voice. He is charged with first-degree murder and related counts. According to an affidavit, multiple witnesses reported seeing Ruiz get into an argument with one of the people he'd shot before opening fire, striking the four others just before 8:30 a.m. at the Delaware County Line…
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: Six Charged, Including Minor, In Coatesville Man's Slaying, DA
Six people — including a child, have been charged in connection with the killing of a Coatesville man, the Chester County Attorney’s Office and Coatesville City Police Department jointly announced on Friday, Jan. 19. Dametirus "Meechie" McClain-Jackson, 20 of Coatesville was found shot in the area of Madison Street and Lime Street on August 23, 2023. He was taken to Paoli Hospital where he was pronounced dead, and autopsy later determined the cause to be a gunshot wound to the torso and the manner was a homicide, as detailed in the joint DA and police rele…
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PA Killer Calls FBI After Slaying Mom, Brother: DA
A Montgomery County man shot and killed his mother and brother on Sunday, Sept. 24 before placing a call to federal agents, prosecutors claim. Aaron Deshong, a 49-year-old Perkiomen resident, was still on the phone with the FBI's Threat Assessment Center when state police arrived at his Gravel Pike home to take him into custody, said the District Attorney's Office. The FBI received the call around 5 p.m., according to the criminal complaint released by prosecutors. Deshong allegedly told agents he had been "living on the edge" since his father's death, that he was "not suicidal,…
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PA Dad Of 3 Who Killed Wife, Burned House Down Learns His Fate: DA
"He lied since day one," Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ponessa said of Carlos Montalvo-Rivera. The 55-year-old Lancaster liar who concocted a wild story "that intruders broke into the home, killed his wife, and set fire to it out of retaliation for the victim’s brother, who had cooperated with the DEA in an unrelated case," was sentenced on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, according to a release by the Lancaster County District Attorney's office. Montalvo-Rivera has been sentenced to "life in prison – plus 20 years – for deliberately setting fire to his family’s home a…
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78-Year-Old PA Woman Robbed Husband For Years Before Poisoning His Coffee, Jury Finds
A 78-year-old Pennsylvania woman had been fleecing her husband's finances for years before she fatally poisoned him to keep the theft a secret, a Union County jury has found. Myrle Miller of Winfield was convicted of first-degree murder for her husband's 2018 death, as well as felony theft by deception, forgery, insurance fraud, and related counts, said Attorney General Michelle Henry's Office in a release. In the months before John Nichols died, a grand jury investigation found that Miller had systemically drained her husband's bank accounts and forged his signature on checks, author…
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PA Man Sentenced For Strangling South Jersey Woman
A 42-year-old man from Pennsylvania has been sentenced to 55 years in New Jersey State Prison for strangling a woman whose naked body was found on the side of the road in 2014, authorities said. Timothy Wright, 42, of Chambersburg, PA, was sentenced Friday, Feb 17 in the murder of 25-year-old Joyce Vanderhoff, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. Vanderhoff's naked body was dumped on the side of a Hamilton Township road in February 2014. A jury previously convicted Wright for first-degree murder after a two-and-a-half-week- trial that commenced this past October.…
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Heartless Husband Killer Heads To Prison: LanCo. DA
A Quarryville woman who gave her estranged husband a deadly Valentine's— heartlessly slaying him at PNC Bank in Strasburg on Valentine's Day 2021— has been sentenced, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. Danielle Beweley, 30, was convicted of murder in the first degree of her husband Mitchell Beweley during a five-day bench trial before Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn that concluded on Wednesday, Dec. 21. She was sentenced has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder by Lancaster County Judge Merrill Spahn,&…
Police & Fire
Kohberger Victims, Roommate Were Reportedly Awake During Idaho Slayings: Affidavit
The probable cause affidavit in the quadruple murders of University of Idaho students was unsealed Thursday, Jan. 5 as prime suspect Bryan Kohberger appeared in court, suggesting that at least one of the victims and one surviving roommate were awake during the crimes. It was ultimately DNA on the button snap of a knife sheath that helped police identify the 28-year-old criminology PhD student as the suspect in the Nov. 13 killings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, according to the affidavit published in NewsNationNow. The affidavi…
Police & Fire
Video On Murder Victim's Phone Helps Police Nab His Philadelphia Killer: DA
Authorities have arrested the man they say was caught on video fatally shooting another in Norristown. Eugene Ware, 41, of Philadelphia, is charged with the murder of 35-year-old Tyrone Guy on West Main Street late on Monday, Nov. 21. He was taken into custody in Bucks County early on Wednesday, Nov. 30, after a "brief standoff" at a home in Sellersville, officials said. As Daily Voice has reported, detectives wrote in the criminal complaint against Ware that they found Guy's phone on the ground, recording a video, at the scene of the crime. Forensic analysts reviewed the video, which…
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