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5 Nabbed In Murder Of Missing Trans Man Who Faced 'Prolonged Violence' In NY: Police 5 Nabbed In Murder Of Missing Trans Man Who Faced 'Prolonged Violence' In NY: Police
5 Nabbed In Murder Of Missing Trans Man Who Faced 'Prolonged Violence' In NY: Police Five suspects have been charged in the brutal killing of a missing transgender man who died after repeated acts of violence and torture for more than a month by multiple individuals who later discarded his body in a field, New York State Police said. The investigation began on Sunday, Feb. 9.  Troopers in Ontario County from the Canandaigua barracks, located about an hour west of Syracuse, initiated a missing person case after receiving a welfare check request for Sam (Samantha) Nordquist, age 24, originally from Minnesota. Authorities determined he had been staying at Patty’s Lodge i…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Details Revealed In Infant’s Death; PA Man Faces Murder Charge: Affidavit Details Revealed In Infant’s Death; PA Man Faces Murder Charge: Affidavit
Details Revealed In Infant’s Death; PA Man Faces Murder Charge: Affidavit Newly released court documents provide chilling details about the events leading up to the death of a 3-month-old baby, for which Harrisburg resident Eriezer Eddie Melendez Jr., 37, is now facing a murder charge. According to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Daily Voice on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27, Pennsylvania State Police were dispatched to a home on Canvasback Drive in Oliver Township on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 8:31 a.m., for a report of an infant in cardiac arrest. The baby, identified as "CR," was transported to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where doctors determined she…

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by Jillian Pikora
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GF Burned On 23% Of Body Boiling Water, BF Convicted: Dauphin County DA GF Burned On 23% Of Body Boiling Water, BF Convicted: Dauphin County DA
GF Burned On 23% Of Body Boiling Water, BF Convicted: Dauphin County DA A 41-year-old Harrisburg man was convicted after he learned his girlfriend was leaving him so he poured boiling water over her while she was falling asleep, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office announced Monday, Aug. 26. Wisly Oxcena was found guilty of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person follow a trial before Judge William T. Tully, according to the DA and court documents. During the trial, Oxcena's now ex-girlfriend testified that she had told him she was leaving him in the morning and then went to bed on June 5, 2019.  While she was falling as…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Injured Girl Running In Street Leads To Abuse Charges For Central PA Mom: Police Injured Girl Running In Street Leads To Abuse Charges For Central PA Mom: Police
Injured Girl Running In Street Leads To Abuse Charges For Central PA Mom: Police A 10-year-old girl found running down a central Pennsylvania street has led to the arrest of a Carlisle mom, police say.  Carlisle police officers responded to multiple reports of a girl with apparent injuries running in the street in the area of North West and West Louther streets on Sept. 6 at 12:30 p.m. The 10-year-old was previously reported as missing by police who told Daily Voice that "she ran away from home during an argument with her mom," — police believe her injuries were sustained before she ran away. She was briefly located by the police but suddenly she ran aw…

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by Jillian Pikora
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PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG
PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG Two "direct support counselors" beat a man under their care with a metal rod so badly that his testicle needed to be surgically removed, according to a release by Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.  August Thorne Young of North Versailles and Eric Walker of Pittsburgh were working for Taylor Maleski Home, LLC, an organization that provides supportive home services to individuals with intellectual disabilities in Allegheny, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties, when they assaulted the man with a metal rod on Nov. 2, 2021, according to the…

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by Jillian Pikora
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SEEN HIM? York Man Wanted For Strangling Woman, Tossing Her Around Kitchen By Neck SEEN HIM? York Man Wanted For Strangling Woman, Tossing Her Around Kitchen By Neck
Seen HIM? York Man Wanted For Strangling Woman, Tossing Her Around Kitchen By Neck A man is wanted in York County after a violent domestic assault incident, according to Carroll Township Police. Police were called to a report of physical abuse in the first block of South Baltimore Street in Franklintown Borough on Tuesday around 5:40 p.m. When officers arrived they were informed that Akeem Settle, 29, of Franklintown, had grabbed a woman by the neck and applied pressure to the point that she could not breathe. The woman also described being “tossed around the kitchen by the neck,” according to a statement released by police. Settle fled the residence prior to the arri…

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by Jillian Pikora