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Ex-Harrisburg Councilwoman's Son Gets 2 Life Sentences For Shooting, Stabbing Family Ex-Harrisburg Councilwoman's Son Gets 2 Life Sentences For Shooting, Stabbing Family
Ex-Harrisburg Councilwoman's Son Gets 2 Life Sentences For Shooting, Stabbing Family The son of former Harrisburg Councilwoman Sandra Reid stabbed 6 and 7-year-old sisters, shot their aunt in the face, and orphaned them by shooting their parents in February 2022, now he has pleaded guilty and was "mentally ill but not insane at the time of the offense," Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said in a release on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023.  Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr. — who was released from prison for raping a child in 2016 after serving four years—  had a protect from abuse order filed by his sister which was supposed to prevent him from going to his mother's home, DA Char…

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by Jillian Pikora
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PA TikToker Who Admitted To Killing Her Wheelchair Bound Sister Learns Her Fate: DA PA TikToker Who Admitted To Killing Her Wheelchair Bound Sister Learns Her Fate: DA
PA TikToker Who Admitted To Killing Her Wheelchair Bound Sister Learns Her Fate: DA "Incoherently tragic," events led a TikToking teen to "Michael Myer's" (as the killer put it) her sister who had Cerebral Palsy, authorities say. Over two years later, the now 16-year-old Claire Miller has learned her fate, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney's office.  The Manheim Township girl "pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a charge of third-degree murder Friday afternoon in Lancaster County Court regarding the stabbing of her sister (Helen, 19) on Feb. 22, 2021," the DA stated in the release on Friday, March 10, 2023. The stabbing happened while the girls' parents w…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Mom Was Battling Postpartum Psychosis When She Killed Kids: Reports Mom Was Battling Postpartum Psychosis When She Killed Kids: Reports
Mom Was Battling Postpartum Psychosis When She Killed Kids: Reports New details suggest that a woman charged with killing her two young children and injuring a third at their Massachusetts home this week was allegedly fighting a mental illness that impacts new mothers.  Lindsay Clancy, age 32, was possibly suffering from postpartum psychosis, sources told the WBZ-TV I-Team. The mental illness occurs in approximately .1-.2% of births, according to Postpartum Support International (PSI). The onset of PPD is usually sudden, most often within the first two weeks postpartum, according to the PSI's website. However, symptoms can appear in the first year, with re…

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by David Cifarelli
Business
'Zombie Hunter' Accused Of Beheading Cumberland County Woman Makes 'Jekyll-Hyde' Defense 'Zombie Hunter' Accused Of Beheading Cumberland County Woman Makes 'Jekyll-Hyde' Defense
'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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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Florida Man Ran Sex Trafficking Scheme In PA, Feds Say Florida Man Ran Sex Trafficking Scheme In PA, Feds Say
Florida Man Ran Sex Trafficking Scheme In PA, Feds Say A Florida man will spend decades behind bars for running an interstate sex trafficking ring, federal authorities have announced.  John Golom, 57, was sentenced to 405 months — almost 34 years — in federal prison, US Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Gerard Karam said in a statement on Monday, Oct. 17.  Prosecutors said Golom recruited two women and regularly shuttled them from Florida to the Poconos where he made them engage in prostitution. For four years from 2014 to 2018, Golom threatened, coerced and lied to the women while pocketing all of the ill-go…

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by Mac Bullock
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Children 7, 4, And 3-Month-Old Believed Drowned By Mentally Ill Mom On Coney Island Children 7, 4, And 3-Month-Old Believed Drowned By Mentally Ill Mom On Coney Island
Children 7, 4, And 3-Month-Old Believed Drowned By Mentally Ill Mom On Coney Island A frantic search for three children whose mentally ill mother had taken them to the Coney Island boardwalk in the middle of the night ended when the kids were all found lifeless on the beach, the NYPD said. All three were later pronounced dead of apparent drownings, authorities said. Police had received an overnight 911 call on Monday, Sept. 12, from an aunt who was "concerned her family member may have harmed her three small children,” NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said. Officers who responded to the 1:40 a.m. call found the Neptune Avenue apartment of 30-year-old Erin Merdy emp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
PA Man Gets Life In Prison For Strangulation Death Of Woman Who 'Feared For Her Life' PA Man Gets Life In Prison For Strangulation Death Of Woman Who 'Feared For Her Life'
PA Man Gets Life In Prison For Strangulation Death Of Woman Who 'Feared For Her Life' A Pennsylvania man convicted of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of the woman with whom he shared a home was sentenced to life in prison, authorities said. Daniel Proffitt, 48, of Oxford, was found guilty but mentally ill in July 2021 on charges of murder and strangulation for his role in the 2018 killing of 64-year-old Anna Johnson, Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said. Johnson was found strangled to death by local and state police who were called to a Brick Road home in East Nottingham Township on Dec. 29, 2018, authorities said.  When they arrived, Proffitt,…

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by Nicole Acosta
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PA Man Who Killed His Father Found Dead In Jail Cell, Officials Say PA Man Who Killed His Father Found Dead In Jail Cell, Officials Say
PA Man Who Killed His Father Found Dead In Jail Cell, Officials Say A Pennsylvania man who was serving a sentence of 15 to 30 years for murdering his father was found unresponsive in his cell, according to SCI Camp Hill superintendent Laurel Harry in a release on Monday.  Ulysses Edward Denman, 24, Larksville was found during a headcount on Saturday, according to the release. Prison staff attempted life-saving measures until medical personnel and Lower Allen emergency medical services arrived, according to the release. "Despite advanced life support measures," Denman was pronounced dead at 6:05 a.m., Harry said. The official cause of death will be de…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police
Support Surges For PA Mom Whose Gun-Wielding Husband Was Shot, Killed By Police Support is surging for a Pennsylvania mom whose estranged and gun-wielding husband was shot and killed by police on Tuesday. Brianne Shuller said that she separated from 34-year-old Mitchell Shuller, in January due to safety concerns, PennLive reports. He had apparently been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and suffering hallucinations and mental illness.  Everything came to a head on Tuesday, Brianne explained, when Shuller began shooting into neighbors' homes on the 7000 block of Fishing Creek Valley Road in Harrisburg. State troopers at the scene pleaded with Shuller t…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
DA: Jury Finds Chester County Man Guilty But Mentally Ill In Strangulation Death Of Woman, 64 DA: Jury Finds Chester County Man Guilty But Mentally Ill In Strangulation Death Of Woman, 64
DA: Jury Finds Chester County Man Guilty But Mentally Ill In Strangulation Death Of Woman, 64 A jury found an Oxford man guilty but mentally ill of first-degree murder and strangulation after a 64-year-old woman was found strangled in the home she shared with him in 2018, authorities said. Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) and Oxford police were called to a home on Brick Road in East Nottingham Township on Dec. 29, 2018, for the report of an unresponsive female in the bathroom, according to the Chester County District Attorney's office. When officers arrived, Daniel Proffitt, 47, was outside the home and claimed that the victim had attacked him with a butcher knife so h…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
DA: Allentown Man Accused Of Killing Mom, Sister Pleads Guilty But Mentally Ill DA: Allentown Man Accused Of Killing Mom, Sister Pleads Guilty But Mentally Ill
DA: Allentown Man Accused Of Killing Mom, Sister Pleads Guilty But Mentally Ill An Allentown man charged with killing his mother and sister in 2018 has entered a guilty plea, authorities announced. Zakiiy Carson, 37, on Tuesday pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder in the third degree, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin. Carson called 911 himself on Oct. 28, 2018, and told dispatchers he had shot his mother and sister, identified as Newark, NJ natives Latricia Ezell and Ashley Campfield, authorities said. When officers took Carson into custody, he explained he had argued with his mom earlier that day about the treatment…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23 West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23
West Chester Native, Georgia Grab Dies After 'Hard Fought' Battle With Cancer, 23 West Chester native, Georgia Reagan Grab died after a "hard-fought" battle with bile duct cancer on May 3. She was 23. Grab attended Henderson High School in West Chester, and later earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2020, according to her obituary. Most recently, she worked as a Residential Behavioral Assistant at Upper Bay Counseling and Support, and was studying for her Master’s degree at Capella University, her obit says. She was remembered as someone who wanted to become a clinical psychologist for young adults who suffer from mental illne…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Missing Bucks County Man Suffers Bipolar Disorder, Police Say SEEN HIM? Missing Bucks County Man Suffers Bipolar Disorder, Police Say
Seen HIM? Missing Bucks County Man Suffers Bipolar Disorder, Police Say Authorities in Bucks County are seeking the public's help locating a man who they say has a mental illness and may be at risk. Trevor Nazian, 42, was last seen Dec. 1 walking toward 7-Eleven at Oxford Valley and Trenton roads in Falls Township, authorities said. Nazian is 6 feet tall, 270 pounds and last seen wearing a t-shirt and shorts. He is bipolar and in need of his medication, police said. Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is to contact the Falls Township Police Department at 215-328-8501 or Detective Dennis O’Connell at d.oconnell@fallstwp.com or submit a tip. Source: F…

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by Cecilia Levine