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DA Recommends Menendez Brothers Be Resentenced After Spending Decades In Prison (
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has recommended brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who spent their childhoods in New Jersey and New York, be resentenced after spending decades in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The brothers, now in their 50s, should be freed and placed on parole for the murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in August 1989, Gascón said at a news conference Thursday, Oct. 24, that comes amid worldwide viewership of a series on their story on Netflix. The case now moves forward to a Los A…
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Ex-Con Sentenced For Killing Philly Man At Atlantic City Apartment Complex: Prosecutors
An Atlantic City man will spend up to half a century in prison for killing a Philadelphia man at an apartment complex more than two years ago, authorities said. Kenneth Creek, 49, was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 24 to 50 years in state prison, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. A jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and second-degree possession of a weapon by a convicted felon on Tuesday, June 11. Atlantic City police responded to the South Carolina Apartments complex at 1300 Baltic Avenue just after midnight on Thursday, Aug. 25…
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PA Mom Who Googled 'Methods Of Killing' Same Day She Hanged Her Kids Gets 2 Life Sentences
A Reading mom who Googled "methods of killing" before hanging her two children in her basement has been sentenced to life in prison, the Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams announced on Thursday, Oct. 17. Lisa Snyder, 41, was found guilty of the following on Tuesday, Sept. 24; 2 counts of First-Degree Murder, 2 counts of Endangering the Welfare of Children, and Tampering with Evidence, the Berks County DA explained in the release. The charges stem from an investigation into the Sept. 2019 death of her 8-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter, and the family…
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PA Man Who Beheaded Gov't Employee Dad On YouTube Faces Execution If Convicted: DA
A 32-year-old man who beheaded his dad and posted an approximately 14-minute-long video showing the head on YouTube was arraigned and told he could face the death penalty if convicted, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday, Oct. 4. Justin Mohn of Levittown allegedly shot and beheaded his government employee dad, 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn, in a bathroom at his parents' home in the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, in Middletown Township on Jan. 30, 2024, DA Jennifer Schorn explained citing the police investigation. Authorities believe Justin Mohn was …
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PA Dad Who Called 911 After Shooting Ex-Wife In Park Gets Life Sentence
Rami Abouloh is going to prison for the rest of his life for the murder of his ex-wife Patricia White, with whom he had four children, the Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced on Thursday, Sept. 26. Adouloh, 42, of Allentown, was convicted of Homicide and Aggravated Assault; all felonies of the first degree Friday, on May 31, 2024, after a trial before Judge Robert L. Steinberg. The sentencing was originally set to be in August but was continued until September. The conviction and sentencing are the result of a shooting at West Catasauqua Park in W…
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Man Accused Of Beheading Dad, Posting YouTube Video, Testifies At 1st Hearing: Bucks DA
Justin Mohn, the Middletown Township man who allegedly beheaded his father and posted a disturbing 14-minute-long YouTube video holding his father’s head testified for two hours Tuesday, Sept. 10, authorities announced. Mohn also allegedly called for violent attacks against members of the federal government, according to Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn. His father was a government worker. After testimony at his preliminary hearing at the Bucks County Justice Center, Mohn, 32, was ordered held for trial for the Jan. 30, 2024, killing of his father, the DA said. Michael F. Mo…
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Federal Court Overturns Life Sentence, Murder Conviction Of PA Man
A man serving a life sentence following a murder conviction has had his conviction overturned, the Lebanon County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, Sept. 5. Eddie Williams, 50, of Lebanon, had been convicted of murder in the first degree, robbery, and numerous related offenses on Oct. 14, 2015, the DA explained. An order granting Williams's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was affirmed in federal court on Aug. 13, 2024, according to federal court documents obtained by Daily Voice. The case was remanded with instructions that the District Court order Williams'…
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Accused Killer To Stand Trial For Bucks Man's Stabbing Death: DA
The Philadelphia woman charged with murdering 72-year-old Richard MacFarland will stand trial, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday, July 18. Meghan Macklin, 46, is accused of stabbing MacFarland to death in his Wrightstown home last Oct. 7, authorities said previously. She was arrested in Tennessee that night after allegedly fleeing Pennsylvania in MacFarland's car, prosecutors said. In a preliminary hearing on Thursday, authorities presented video evidence, photos, and testimony from police to show that Macklin and MacFarland had a "friendly…
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HS Band Director Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Student: Pennsylvania AG
A former school employee in Wilkes Barre was convicted of groping a student on Friday, June 28, said the state Attorney General's Office in a release. Theron Roberts, the 41-year-old ex-band director at Crestwood High School in Mountain Top, was found guilty of felony institutional sexual assault and corruption of minors, prosecutors said. According to authorities, Roberts groped a tenth-grade student after pulling them into a "secluded alcove" and threatened her not to report the incident. The AG's Office said he met the victim three years earlier when they were in …
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Atlantic City Man Convicted Of Killing Philly Man At Apartment Complex: Prosecutors
An Atlantic City man was convicted of killing a Philadelphia man at an apartment complex, authorities said. A jury found 49-year-old Kenneth Creek guilty on Tuesday, June 11 of first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. The court also found him guilty of second-degree certain persons not to possess firearms. Atlantic City police responded to the South Carolina Apartments complex at 1300 Baltic Avenue just after midni…
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Pennsylvania Nurse Coated In GF's Blood Convicted Of Murder
A man has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend years after he was found wandering in the street with a gunshot wound to the head. Two York County nurses had a violent fight that turned deadly, and one man has been found guilty of murder, according to court documents. William Fredric Hudson, 50, of the 600 block of Pleasant View Road in Fairview Township, was turned in to the police by his father after he killed his girlfriend Catherine Hartman, 51, of Camp Hill on June 25, 2021. The couple's relationship came to a violent end following an argument that Friday around 2 a.m. Hud…
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PA Dad's 'Execution-Style' Killer Arrested: Authorities
The man accused of killing a Pennsylvania father in an "execution-style murder" has been taken into custody, say prosecutors. Quinzell Mickey, a 41-year-old from Spring City, surrendered to Philadelphia police on Tuesday, Aug. 1, said District Attorney Deb Ryan's Office in a release. Investigators have previously claimed that Mickey gunned down 32-year-old William Stafford outside the Park Springs Apartment Community in East Vincent Township in the early morning hours on Saturday, April 15. Surveillance video shows that Mickey and Stafford arrived at the complex in the same Fo…
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'Zombie Hunter' Accused Of Beheading Cumberland County Woman Makes 'Jekyll-Hyde' Defense
An Amazon delivery driver by day and self-described "zombie hunter" at night, this Arizonan has pleaded insanity and has a lawyer using a "Jekyll and Hyde" defense during a trial over the brutal stabbing and beheading deaths of two young women— including a 21-year-old from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, according to multi-media outlets reports. Bryan Miller, 49, dubbed the "Canal Killer" is on trial in a death penalty double-murder case in Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona, azcentral reports. **Warning this article includes graphic details of torture, rape, and killing which …
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PA Woman Convicted Of Brother's Christmas Eve Murder
A Dauphin County jury has convicted a 28-year-old woman of third-degree murder in her brother's Christmas Eve murder in 2020. Nafiisah McNeill initially tried to claim she stabbed Leon White-Jones dead in self-defense, in front of her sister's home on the 2400 block of North 4th Street in Harrisburg in 2020, Dauphin County District Attorney's Office. The jury rejected McNeill's claim, though. After the stabbing, McNeill fled and tried ti dispose of the knife, then went into her sister's home while the police were at the scene, the DA's office said. Chief Deputy District Attorney …
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PA's Michael Horvath Found Guilty In Murder Of Holly Grim
Pennsylvania's Michael Horvath on Friday, June 17 was found guilty in the 2013 murder of his co-worker, Holly Grim. Michael Horvath, 55, was convicted on charges of homicide, kidnapping, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse, but was acquitted of obstructing law enforcement. The announcement was made two weeks after the Monroe County trial had ended. Grim and Horvath worked together at the Allen Organ Company in Macungie. Grim had last been seen on Nov. 22, 2013, in the driveway of her Red Maples Mobile Home Park around 6:35 a.m in Lower Macungie, after droppi…
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UPS Driver Used Job To Creepily Stalk Victims In PA: Authorities
A 52-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to time behind bars in part for using his job as a UPS driver to stalk his victims in a disturbing way, authorities said. Thomas F. Wainman Jr., of Lititz, was found guilty by a jury of stalking his neighbors in multiple incidents spanning from May to December 2020, according to a release by the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. Wainman shined spotlights into the victim’s home, peered through their windows, watched them while they were out at their pool, and followed the victims after seeing them at a gas station, the DA's Office …
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PA Mom Helped Catch Serial Child Rapist: DA
A mom of three contacted officials after she learned three of her children— all under the age of nine, were being sexually assaulted and raped by a central Pennsylvania man, according to a release by the district attorney’s office. Luis G. Torres Jr., 27, of the 300 block of North Lime Street, Lancaster, raped a child, as well as committed involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault of a child, according to the Lancaster County’s District Attorney’s office. The three children were harmed by Torres Jr. when they were under the age of 9-years-old…
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Serial NJ Bank Robber Who Served 18 Years Headed Back To Fed Pen For At Least 16 More
A convicted bank robber from Camden who just couldn’t stop is headed back to federal prison for more than 16 years. Anthony L. Livingston, 50, robbed a PNC Bank in Gloucester Township on July 14, 2018 (photos above), a day after he’d been released after serving more than 18 years in federal prison for robbing eight South Jersey banks in 2000 and 2001, authorities said. Ten days after the Gloucester holdup, Livingston tried to recruit a homeless man to rob another PNC branch, this one in Stratford, they said. Livingston “instructed the man on how to rob the bank, gave him a demand note to s…
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PA Man On Trial For Murder Asks Judge To Officiate Wedding, He Said 'Yes!'
If you were standing trial for murder what would you ask your judge? A Pennsylvania man who is accused of commiting a gang related homicide asked the judge presiding over the trial to preside over his wedding, as reported by PennLive Kashawn Divine Flowers, 25, of York, is ready to let his love blossom despite being on trial for murder. Flower's attorney Brian Perry asked York County Judge Harry Ness whether he’d consider marrying Flowers and his girlfriend, during a hearing on Tuesday. The judge and the prosecutors had no objections to the request. The wedding will take place after the m…
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Pennsylvania Lawyer With 'To-Do List' For Killing US Senators Has Been Disbarred
A Pennsylvania lawyer has been disbarred after police found a "to-do list" of people to murder including US Senators, according to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Kenelm L. Shirk III, 71, was angry about the results of the 2020 presidential election so he allegedly made a “to-do list” of people to murder in the US government, loaded his car up with firearms and ammunition and went to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21, 2021, states the US DOJ. Shirk allegedly threatened to kill his wife as well as and planned a "suicide by cop" if confronted by law enforcement, accor…
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