Man gets 20 years to life in wife's shooting death

A man who pleaded guilty to gunning down his wife in a Utah County church parking lot has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

David Ragsdale, 36, was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated murder in Provo's 4th District Court in November. In exchange for the plea, Utah County prosecutors dropped two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child...

Burnsville man set home afire after killing his ex-girlfriend

Anthony Darst and Brittany Givens-Copeland had a baby boy four months ago. Their relationship was rocky, but lately, they tried working things out.

They never had the chance, said Darst, 23, of Burnsville.

Givens-Copeland died, police say, in a murder-suicide Sunday night after she went to see ex-boyfriend Adam K. Williams, 23, at his Burnsville apartment building...

Guilty plea to child sexual abuse charges

A 46-year-old Scranton man has entered a guilty plea to charges stemming from the sexual abuse of a child. John J. Rodney Sr. plead guilty to charges of Involuntary Sexual Intercourse with a child and Corruption of a Minor...

Sexual Assault suspect being held with no bond

This morning sexual assault suspect Jonathon Brown was in first appearance. Brown is being held with no bond. He is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in broad daylight.

"For somebody to be attacked out in the open, people walking by all the time, something's definitely wrong there," said an eye doctor who works in that plaza, Clyde Chapman.

According to Delray Beach Police, 41-year old Jonathan Brown had followed a 69-year old woman into that breezeway at the Delray Crossing Plaza along Linton Boulevard. Police say Brown grabbed the victim from behind, threw her to the ground and started sexually assaulting her between two columns there. This all happened at around 10:00 in the morning...

Man arrested after break-in, sexual assault

Barron police have arrested a man in connection with an early-morning break-in and rape last week in the city. The suspect has since been criminally charged.

Joseph R. Stoeberl, 38, of Barron had his initial appearance Jan. 22 in Barron County Circuit Court before Judge Tim Doyle on charges of second-degree sexual assault with use of force, burglary and criminal damage to property. The judge established a $2,500 cash bond for the defendant, and a Jan. 29 preliminary hearing date has been scheduled.

According to the criminal complaint:...

Teens arrested on sexual assault charges

A 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old male were arrested Sunday on sexual assault charges involving an intoxicated 14-year-old female.

According to Sgt. Dave Thompson, with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department Domestic Violence and sexual Assault Unit, at about 2:23 a.m. Sunday, deputies from the Sonoma Valley sheriff's substation stopped a vehicle at Verano Avenue and Riverside Drive for suspected drunk driving. Three juvenile males, all Agua Caliente residents ranging in age from 12 to 16, and a juvenile female, age 14, also a Sonoma Valley resident, were in the vehicle.

The female told deputies that she had been sexually assaulted by at least one of the males in the car. The female was transported to Sonoma Valley Hospital where she was treated for heavy alcohol intoxication and later released. Thompson said the juveniles had been drinking wine at El Verano Elementary School on Riverside Drive from about 12:30 to about 2:25 a.m...

Swannanoa Man Charged In 1990 Homicide

Police charged a Swannanoa man on Thursday in connection with the 1990 death of a woman.

Police said 61-year-old Terry Spivey was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of 41-year-old Sandra Proffitt.

Investigators said that Proffitt died at Mission Hospitals in January 1990 from injuries she sustained during an altercation with Spivey. They said the altercation was classified as domestic violence...

Man gets life term for wife’s murder

A lower court today awarded life imprisonment to one 52-year-old man for the murder of his wife in 2006.

District and Sessions Judge Kewal Krishna Garg pronounced the judgment to Nirmal Singh for the murder of his wife Malkiat Kaur under Section 302 of the IPC. The couple’s son Ajit Pal Singh (23), meanwhile, was acquitted of all charges.

On November 16, 2006, Nirmal and his son had surrendered to the police, claiming they had murdered Malkiat a night before. Nirmal had told the police that Malkiat called him impotent and a worthless man on the night of the murder, after which, they decided to kiil her...

Girl: I was fed up with father's abuse of sister

The sister of a girl who was allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father says she waited until she turned 18 to come forward because she was afraid of being placed in state custody. "My dad was doing all this crazy stuff," the 18-year-old told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. "I got fed up with it until I finally ran my mouth. ... I couldn't see my sister suffer anymore. That's why I wanted her out."

She said her sister, now 19, was 13 when their father started molesting her. The 18-year-old said her sibling confided in her about the abuse after becoming pregnant the first time.

"But I already knew," she said...

Man ordered to prison for sexual assault of child

A Madison County man has been ordered to spend eight years in prison in the 2005 sexual attack of a 13-year-old girl.

Thirty-nine-year-old Anson Carr declined to address the judge before being sentenced Wednesday in Edwardsville in southwestern Illinois.

Jurors convicted Carr in October of aggravated criminal sexual assault...

Folsom Man Arrested After Alleged Sexual Assault With Child

A Folsom man is behind bars charged with sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.

Police arrested 53-year-old Michael Hudson on eight counts of committing lewd acts with a young girl...

SJAFB airman will face sexual assault charge

A U.S. Air Force technical sergeant has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy and with allegedly showing him pornographic material, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

An investigation was launched after family members alleged that Jeremiah Williams Powers, 32, of Country Acres Road, had sexually assaulted the boy, investigators said.

Powers is a member of the 4th Fighter Wing's Equip-ment Maintenance Squad-ron, and because of that affiliation with Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, the base's Office of Special Investigation was contacted, Sheriff's Office Capt. Tom Effler said...

Hoops star to face sexual assault charges

Former Bonackers basketball star Michael Russell will face sexual assault charges in New Hampshire after he is freed from a Suffolk County jail later this year.

Mr. Russell, who was sentenced January 20 to one year in jail for two burglaries in East Hampton last summer, has already served three months of his sentence. His attorney here hopes that he will be released within eight months.

But, once released, he will have to answer to charges of aggravated sexual assault and criminal threatening, both felonies, after he being charged with assaulting a woman, holding a knife to her face and forcing her to have sex with him...

Teenager, Her Mother Fatally Shot in Largo

A mother and daughter were shot to death early yesterday in their home in a quiet Largo neighborhood, probably by someone who knew them, Prince George's County police said.

Acting Chief Roberto Hylton said there was no indication of forced entry into the two-story, colonial-style home in the 10800 block of Southall Drive. There was also no indication that anything was stolen, he said.

"This is an isolated incident," Hylton said. "This is not a serial killer."...

Lynch gets life sentence for hit-and-run murder of wife

A man accused of running over and killing his wife could spend the rest of his life in prison.

On Monday afternoon, a judge sentenced Sherman Lynch to 16 years to life in prison.

Lynch was convicted running over Patricia Rothermich with his pick-up truck last year...

Golden Gate man gets 55 years for killing wife

Lawyer Maria Luz Pary Perez fled Colombia and came to America for a better life. Instead, the 49-year-old got a job as a hairdresser in Naples and ended up dead at the hands of her estranged husband.

Her son sold his home in Colombia and left college to come to America, spending four years living on the streets and with friends, in the hopes of justice — a trial for his mother’s murder.

Nicolas Bernal, now 27, didn’t get it...

Two Teens Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault Of 14-Year-Old

Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a car in Sonoma early Sunday morning.

Sheriff's deputies stopped a motorist around 2:30 a.m. at Verano Avenue and Riverside Drive, near Maxwell Farms Regional Park, on suspicion of drunken driving, Sonoma County Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Thompson said.

The car contained three boys from Agua Caliente and the 14-year-old girl...

Family of seven killed in L.A. murder-suicide

Police in Los Angeles say a father shot and killed his wife and five young children, then committed suicide, the Associated Press reports.

Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner said the victims included an 8-year-old girl, twin 5-year-old daughters and twin 2-year-old sons, the AP says.

The father was apparently distraught about job problems, the news agency reports...

Prosecutor: Brockton suspect planned ‘mass murder’

Luke’s first victim was identified in court as Selma Goncalves, 20, a Cape Verdean immigrant. Her sister’s name is being withheld because the Herald does not publish the names of victims of alleged sexual assault. Family members said she is in critical but stable condition.

The second victim is identified as Arlindo Goncalves, 72, a homeless man who is not related to the two sisters.

His niece tells the Herald he was just trying to get by in life by redeeming cans he collected...

Graduate student decapitated on campus

A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.

Xin Yang, 22, was killed Wednesday night after arriving at the campus from Beijing on Jan. 8 to begin studying accounting, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

The suspect, Haiyang Zhu, 25, of Ningbo, China, knew the victim, but no motive for the slaying has been determined, Chief Flinchum said. School records showed that Mr. Haiyang was listed as one of Miss Xin's emergency contacts...

Man faces 10 felony charges after reported assault

A 22-year-old Mt. Pleasant man is facing several felony charges following an incident earlier this week at an East Bellows Street apartment.

Darren Paul Martin is accused of trying to rape a female friend who went to his apartment at Park Place to offer aid when friends said he was “acting weird,” assaulting police who were called to the scene and trying to flee officers after he was handcuffed.

Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick on Wednesday charged Martin with unlawful imprisonment, criminal sexual conduct, assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, two counts of attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct, five counts of resisting and obstructing police, and possession of marijuana...

Anderson University student reports kidnapping, sexual assault

An Anderson University student told police that two men kidnapped her as she walked near campus early this morning and then sexually assaulted her, according to the Anderson Police Department.

The 18-year-old woman was treated at AnMed Health and released, said police spokesman C. Randall Williams.

Students have been notified of the incident and were urged to call a campus safety officer for an escort if they planned on going out alone after dark, said university spokesman Barry Ray...

Fatal stabbings at 30-year high

The number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales rose from 269 to 270 last year, the highest total for at least 30 years, the Home Office said yesterday.

But statisticians added that this was a similar level to that seen in four out of the last six years and pointed out that fatal shootings had fallen from 59 to 53 over the same period.

The supplementary volume of Home Office crime figures published yesterday, which cover homicides, gun crime and intimate violence for the year to April 2008, also shows that the overall murder rate in England and Wales rose by 2% from 758 in 2006-07 to 773 in 2007-08...

Austin man gets 50 years for girlfriend’s murder

After a day-long hearing at which lawyers for a murder defendant argued he committed the crime under the influence of sudden passion and therefore deserved a lighter sentence, state District Judge Charlie Baird rejected the argument and sentenced Jorge Enrique Ramirez to 50 years in prison.

Ramirez had previously pleaded guilty to murder in the July fatal stabbing of his girlfriend Carmen Perez in the couple’s apartment at the Fairway Apartments, 6118 Fairway Street in Southeast Austin. Perez, 48, was pronounced dead at the scene...

Houston's violent crime shows slight increase in 2008

Violent crimes in Houston increased slightly in 2008 compared with 2007 but property crimes dropped sharply last year — showing a more than 10 percent decline, according to statistics released Thursday by Houston police officials.

Among violent crimes, homicides dropped by 16 percent, but sexual assaults increased more than 8 percent from 2007, officials said. Aggravated assaults showed the largest increase in the violent crime category - at 9.1 percent.

HPD officials say the overall increase in violent crime — less than 1 percent — may be attributed to the effects of Hurricane Ike on the Houston area as well as the faltering economy...

Marinello sentenced to life in prison for killing estranged wife

Former radio and TV personality Vince Marinello headed to Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel this week to begin serving a life sentence behind bars.

A Jefferson Parish judge handed down the mandatory sentence for second degree murder on Thursday after a jury convicted Marinello of killing his estranged wife.

Last month, a Lafayette jury found Marinello guilty of second degree murder for shooting his estranged wife twice in the face and killing her in an Old Metairie parking lot...

Adulterous minister 'murdered BBC make-up artist wife'

David Chenery-Wickens, 51, was described as a "sexual predator" who had the "clearest motive and the obvious opportunity" to kill his 48-year-old wife Diane, an award-winning artist who had worked on programmes including Dead Ringers, The League Of Gentlemen and Casualty.

Opening the case at his trial for her murder, prosecutor Philip Katz QC said Mrs Chenery-Wickens had discovered her husband was cheating on her and phoning adult men-only chatlines.

Although qualified as a spiritualist minister, he rarely worked, had mounting debts and relied financially on his wife, Mr Katz said. He had also untruthfully told friends that he and his wife were going through a divorce and that their home was on the market, he alleged...

Laurent indicted in murder of wife’s 2007 death

A long-running murder case inched closer to trial this morning when an indictment was issued against Leo Laurent, charged with killing his wife in 2007.

Laurent, 31, has been in jail for more than a year in the death of Brandi Hawkins Laurent. The 29-year-old mother of two died in August 2007.

Laurent had told Hancock County deputies his wife disappeared without a trace from their home in the rural Fenton community after the two argued. On Nov. 10, 2007, her body was found by horseback searchers at a crude grave site in the countryside about a mile from their home...

Teen boy arrested in sexual abuse of 2-year-old girl

Hernando County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 15-year-old Spring Hill boy on a count of sexual battery involving a 2-year-old girl.

The teen, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, is accused of intentionally touching the victim in the genital area on Nov. 28 at her Citrus County home, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said.

The girl's mother told deputies that she rushed downstairs after hearing her daughter scream, finding that the teen was sitting on the floor with the girl...

In a recorded conversation with his own mother, the boy said that if he was arrested, he would kill the victim's mother as soon as he was released from jail....

Pennsylvania Man Charged With Strangling Wife

Westmoreland County detectives say 41-year-old David Clarke, of Arnold, killed his wife sometime Saturday morning.

Police say he called 911 about 8:30 a.m. and told them he found 40-year-old Doreena Clarke unresponsive...

Albany man sentenced for killing his girlfriend's estranged husband

A 31-year-old Albany man who killed his girlfriend's estranged husband is headed to prison for 28.5 years to life.

Jamar Johnson was convicted of second-degree murder, conspiracy and weapons possession in November for the death of Tyrone McCoy.

Prosecutors say Johnson was dating Tamarra McCoy when her estranged husband came into thousands of dollars, and they plotted to kill him and escape with his money...

Former Okla. sheriff convicted of rape, bribery

A former Oklahoma sheriff was convicted of second-degree rape and bribery Saturday in a case that accused him of coercing sex from female inmates and drug court defendants.

A Major County jury convicted former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess on 13 felonies, including five counts of second-degree rape and three counts of bribery by a public official. He was acquitted of 23 other felony counts that included second-degree rape, forcible sodomy and rape by instrumentation.

The jury recommended Burgess serve 94 years in prison. He is to be sentenced March 24...

Man charged with sexual assault on teen

Halton police have charged an 18-year-old man after a teen girl was allegedly sexually assaulted.

Officers were called to an apartment building on Surrey Lane, near King Road, around 7: 10 p.m. Saturday.

Police had received reports that a 16-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted...

Former soccer coach found quilty of sexual assault

A youth soccer coach was found guilty on Friday of sexually assaulting a former player.

Eric James Hawkins, 45, of Elk River was found guilty of first-and-second-degree sexual assault.

The charges stem from incidents stemming from the winters of 2004 - 2005. He was charged in November 2008...

50 children a day suffering sexual abuse, says NSPCC

Children are subjected to more than 50 sex attacks every day, figures obtained by the NSPCC reveal today.

In almost a quarter of cases uncovered by the charity, the victims were ten or younger. The number of crimes against girls was six times higher than against boys.

There were 20,758 sex crimes against under-18s reported to police in 2008, including rape, gross indecency and incest, the children's charity said...

Tie Exists Between Break-Ups, Violence?

Experts on domestic violence say it's common for relationships to not turn violent until one person tries to leave.

They hope the deaths on Monday of 25-year-old Summer Rust and her four children will cause more people to focus on the issue of domestic violence, which authorities say results in 60 homicides each year in Oklahoma.

Prosecutors have charged Rust's ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old Joshua Durcho, with five counts of murder. He had lived with Rust and her children before their deaths...

Man denies wife's garage murder

Alan Stead, 41, of Meynell Fields, Loggerheads, Staffordshire, denies murdering his wife Anita in May 2002 and called the fire a tragic accident.

Stephen Lineham QC, prosecuting, said Mr Stead killed his wife because she had told him she wanted to divorce him.

Mr Lineham told Stafford Crown Court the garage room was a "secret place"...

Sex abuse brothers jailed for life

TWO brothers have been jailed for life today for a horrific catalogue of sexual abuse of children. Colin and Lee Wicks, both from Gillingham, were charged with 31 counts including rape, sexual assault of a child under 13 and indecent assault. They related to the abuse of five children, one as young as four, over an 11-year period from 1994 to 2005. One of the counts involved Lee, formerly of Chapel Street, Minster, sexually assaulting a child at Sheerness pier...

Father Charged with Aggravated Murder for Baby's Death

Demetrius E. Duncan, 19, has been charged with one count of aggravated murder for the death of his 6-month-old baby girl, police say. He will appear in court at 8:30 am on Tuesday.

Police say Duncan led them to a Dumpster at West 95th Street and Lorain Avenue, where they found 6-month-old Ania Duncan's body wrapped in a green blanket and partly inside a plastic bag.

Early Thursday morning, the child's godmother called 911 saying that the baby had been stolen. The baby's mother told police she was at Duncan's mother's home on Denison Avenue Wednesday...

Cameron Park Man Charged With Attempted Murder

An El Dorado County domestic violence case is so severe, the suspect is being charged with attempted murder.

Deputies arrested 38-year-old Jimmy Beechler outside his Cameron Park home after he allegedly severely beat his girlfriend...

Lubbock orthodontist's family dead in apparent murder-suicide

Authorities have released the names of three people found dead this morning in an apparent murder-suicide in Lubbock County.

A local orthodontist, Christopher Anderson, 65, and his wife, Eladne Anderson, also 65, and her mother Alice Johnson, 84, died in the shooting on the 8500 block of County Road 6500...

Busan Court Finds Man Guilty of Raping Wife

A court in Korea's southeastern port city of Busan in a landmark case has convicted a husband for raping his wife.

This is the first time a Korean court has sentenced a man for marital rape.

The Busan District Court said Friday it sentenced the 42-year-old man to two-and-a-half years in jail with three years probation...

Montgomery County Police Seek Three Suspects in Abduction, Rape

Montgomery County police are investigating an abduction and rape in Gaithersburg early Sunday morning.

A 21-year-old woman from Laurel had been at the home of a friend and left to walk to the 7-Eleven store on Duvall Lane around 3:00 a.m. She was in the area of Olde Towne when a red four-door SUV carrying three unknown men stopped next to her. One of the men got out of the vehicle, grabbed the victim and pulled her inside.

They drove to an unknown remote location, where the three men raped the woman. They then drove back to the 7200 block of Muncaster Mill Road and left the victim there, where she was able to seek help...

Man to face Fiji court on wife murder charge

A man is due to appear in court in Fiji charged with murdering his wife, who was originally from the Isle of Wight.

Raymond Singh, 30, will go on trial at the Fijian High Court in the capital Suva.

It is claimed the former journalist attacked his wife, Wendy, during an argument...

Man booked in wife's strangulation

Police in Houma have arrested a 47-year-old man in the death of his wife.

Rodolfo Ortega was booked Sunday morning with second-degree murder.

Officers arrived at his home in Houma at 10 a.m. Sunday, responding to reports of a domestic dispute. After they arrived, Ortega told officers he had strangled his wife, 32-year-old San Juana Isabel Ortega in their bedroom during an argument...

Arraignment in Siouxland Murder Trial Delayed

A court hearing for a Sioux City man accused of killing his wife has been delayed.

Tim Sohler, 49, is charged with 1st Degree Murder in the stabbing death of his wife, Susan Sohler...

Sheriff says Kansas father killed children, self

Authorities say a man in a small northeast Kansas town killed his three children, set their home on fire and shot himself.

Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn says 52-year-old Michael L. Shirley committed suicide Monday after setting his Scranton home ablaze. Also dead are 14-year-old Ethan C. Shirley, 11-year-old Ashten C. Shirley, and 9-year-old Caleb Jackson Shirley...

Racine mayor arrested on attempted sexual assault of a child and other charges

Mayor Gary Becker has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to attempted sexual assault of a child and having child pornography, according to a state agency.

Becker was taken into custody at Brookfield Square Mall in Brookfield on Tuesday afternoon.

He was arrested on charges of child enticement, possession of child pornography, exposing a child to harmful materials, attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and misconduct in public office, according to the state Division of Criminal Investigation...

Oxnard Man Suspected In Murder of His Wife

Oxnard Police are searching for a man they say stabbed his wife to death and attacked his own daughter.

The attack happened just before 6:00 a.m. on the 2300 block of South J St. in Oxnard...

Sentence upheld for man in murder, decapitation

A former racing mechanic convicted of strangling his estranged wife and decapitating her to make her body hard to identify must serve the 60 years to which he was sentenced, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

Michael G. Albrecht had appealed after a Marion Superior Court judge refused to reduce his sentence or grant him a new trial in the 1992 murder of 31-year-old Cynthia L. Albrecht. Both Albrechts had been employed by different owners in the now-defunct Championship Auto Racing Teams.

She disappeared Oct. 25, 1992, after returning from a race in California shortly before the couple's divorce was to be finalized. Her headless body was found about three weeks later in northern Indiana's Newton County and was identified by surgical scars and fingerprints...

Ypsilanti man arrested in beating of girlfriend

A 19-hour manhunt ended tonight for an Ypsilanti man accused of bashing his teenage girlfriend's head in with a hammer or crowbar, police said.

Dominic D. Oyerinde, 20, was arrested on a charge of attempted murder. Officers found his 17-year-old girlfriend, of Ann Arbor, lying unconscious in the snow near a park entrance at Congress and Oakwood around 1:20 a.m. She was in critical condition this evening.

Oyerinde was arrested in his girlfriend's minivan in Detroit...

Detective accused of fondling a girl

A nine-year veteran of the Murray police department was charged Tuesday with one count of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child for allegedly fondling a girl.

West Valley City police arrested Murray detective Michael D. Spilman, 35, after a 17-year-old girl alleged he fondled her, over and under her clothes, on several occasions between March 2004 and Jan. 8, 2008, court documents state. The alleged sexual abuse occurred at Spilman's home in Salt Lake County...

Man Charged for Attempting to Rape Girl

A 46-year- old man was yesterday arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court for attempting to rape a nine-year-old girl.

Prosecutor Abdullahi Alhassan told the court that the accused, Jimoh Ajinodu, an applicant of no fixed address, induced the girl on January 12 with the intention of having carnal knowledge of her...

Cicero man charged with impersonating cop, rape

A 34-year-old Cicero man serving a sentence for robbery was charged today with raping a Chicago woman at knifepoint two years ago while pretending to be a police officer.

George Carlos arrived to pick the 30-year-old victim up at her Northwest Side residence for a lunch date, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Teresa Molina said. When she refused to have sex with him, he pretended to be on a police radio talking to other officers, Molina said.

Armed with a knife, Carlos told the woman she could either have sex with him or go to jail, Molina said...

CBP port director confesses to Mission wife's murder

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection port director has confessed shooting his wife to death, police said Wednesday morning.

Joseph Mongiello III, 48, called emergency responders at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday after a domestic disturbance at his home at 2015 Fair Oaks Drive, police said.

When officers arrived, they found Mongiello's wife, 45-year-old Lindsay Tall, wounded several times on the upper part of her chest, said Martin Garza, assistant chief of the Mission Police Department. Justice of the Peace Luis Garza later pronounced her dead at the scene...

Get tougher on sex offenders

Early last month, beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza went missing. Her family holds out hope she is still alive.

An aspiring dancer from Texas, Garza moved to New York City to pursue her career. On December 2nd, she went to the posh Manhattan nightclub Marquee to blow off some steam with her friend.

Security video shows Garza leaving the club with convicted sex offender Michael Mele, according to the New York Police Department. NYPD officials confirmed that Mele then drove Garza about an hour away toward his apartment. Garza was reported missing the next day...

Wife murdered after Costa retirement dream ended in drunken rows

A man who murdered his wife after their Spanish retirement dream turned into a nightmare of drunken rows was jailed for life yesterday.

Allen Heard, 63, strangled Patricia with a nylon rope on her 58th birthday then drove 22 miles to mountains and buried her in a shallow grave.

He reported her missing and told their grown-up son and daughter Mark and Linda he last saw her when he dropped her off in Benidorm...

Family of Montclair murder victim seeks legal protection for women in domestic violence cases

The family of Monica Paul, the woman murdered at the Montclair YMCA last June, is circulating a petition to enact "Monica's Law," which would restrict child visitation by fathers in case of documented domestic violence, according to a report on Baristanet...

California Sex Offenders Now Tracked By GPS

Thousands of sex offenders on parole in California are now being tracked by GPS devices, at a high price to taxpayers.

Outfitting nearly 7,000 sex offender parolees cost the state nearly $10 million, and the 24 hours a day, seven days a week tracking is costing another $14.5 million per year – that comes out to $6 per parolee, per day. Compare that to prisoners, each of whom costs taxpayers $96 a day behind bars...

Man, 61, Is Charged With Sex Abuse of Autistic Boy

A 61-year-old Montgomery County man was charged with sexual abuse of an 11-year-old autistic child whom police said he fondled and photographed, authorities said yesterday.

Abdul Mohamed Kudsy of the 3200 block of Hewitt Avenue in Silver Spring was being held in the county jail and faces two counts of third-degree sexual offense and one count of sexual abuse, according to District Court records. Records say he fondled the 11-year-old more than once and took a picture of him with his camera phone while the boy's pants and underwear were at his knees...

Legal change: Abused woman who kill could escape murder

Victims of domestic abuse will be able to use the defence of "fear of serious violence" against a murder charge, if they can demonstrate a "slow burn" of abuse.

It would see them face a charge of manslaughter instead.

The Coroners and Justice Bill will also propose scrapping the current defence of provocation for all but the most extreme cases.

It means a man who kills his wife after discovering she was unfaithful - a so-called crime of passion - will no longer have the defence of provocation...

Teenager shot stepfather to put end to sexual abuse, court told

A Victorian teenager has been ordered to stand trial for the murder of her stepfather who allegedly took nearly 10,000 pornographic pictures of her in four years.

The Shepparton Magistrates Court was told that on March 13 last year, the stepdaughter shot the 34-year-old in the back of the head to put an end to daily sexual abuse that began when she was 14. The teenager, now 19, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Defence barrister Peter Chadwick told the court on the night of his death, the woman's stepfather ordered her to go to a shed behind their home where he demanded she perform oral sex on him...

Suspect Was Digging Wife's Grave

A man who shot and bound his wife was using a backhoe tractor to presumably dig her grave, Surry County Sheriff Graham Atkinson said Monday.

Surry County deputies captured Christopher Scott Hiatt, 26, who was hiding in a wooded area off Dusty Lane near Greentown Road Monday morning, Atkinson said.

Atkinson said he had barricaded himself along a tree line less than a mile from the North Carolina/Virginia state line and was spotted with the help of a police helicopter that was scouring the area from above...

Owensboro man gets 40 years for child rape

A Kentucky man convicted of a federal charge stemming from the abduction and rape of an 11-year-old West Virginia girl will spend 40 years in prison.

U.S. Attorney Sharon Potter says 29-year-old Joshua Ridings of Owensboro, Ky., will be on supervised release for the rest of his life when he completes his prison sentence.

U.S. District Judge Frederick P. Stamp Jr. sentenced Ridings today...

Macon man pleads guilty in gang rape, beating of woman

A 26-year-old Macon man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape, according to the Bibb County District Attorney’s office.

Terry Sherrod Jackson also must serve five years on probation, said Assistant District Attorney Dorothy Hull.

Jackson and two other men -- 34-year-old James Harris and 41-year-old Wendell Simmons -- brutally raped a 53-year-old Macon woman on June 10, 2005...

Father gets 70-year sentence for rape, incest

An 18-year-old girl raped and shocked with a dog collar for years by her father just wanted to know why he subjected her to the abuse before a judge sentenced the man to 70 years imprisonment.

"She said she wanted to ask him why and hoped that question haunted him for the rest of his life," said Assistant District Attorney Amanda Sammons.

The teenager's question arose Friday during a sentencing hearing for her father in Tazewell. Criminal Court Judge E. Shayne Sexton sentenced the 38-year-old man to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence before being eligible for parole...

‘Crazy’ soldier sought in rape of two women

Authorities are asking the public’s help in finding a Fort Lewis Stryker brigade soldier accused of kidnapping and torturing two women this month, and then trying to hide the crimes by setting fire to his Parkland home after the second victim escaped.

Staff Sgt. Nathan Ryan Smith, a 29-year-old Iraq veteran, has been charged in a warrant with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, four courts of first-degree rape, attempted rape, felony harassment, destroying evidence and first-degree arson.

The Army considers Smith absent without leave since Monday, Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Kubistek said. A cavalry scout with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, he had been at the post since July 2006....

Child murder suspect nabbed

A man suspected of abusing and killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old son was arrested at Taman Perdana in Kepong here yesterday.

The 29-year-old, who works in a car workshop here, has become a fugitive since the death of N. Iswaran was discovered on Wednesday morning.

He was picked up at his mother's home.

LaPorte man arrested in child luring case

The Larimer County Sheriff's Office arrested a man Friday night they believe tried to lure children into his pickup truck that evening in LaPorte and might be involved in an attempted abduction in Fort Collins on Tuesday.

Michael Don Ashcraft, 41, of LaPorte, was arrested during a traffic stop about 9 p.m. in the 3100 block of Kinsley Court in LaPorte.

Ashcraft matched the physical description of a man who approached five children in an alley behind a LaPorte business about 4 p.m. Friday, asked what they were doing, then claimed he was an undercover officer and told them to get in his truck so he could take them to jail...

Mother, daughter slain in Calera home

A mother and daughter were brutally slain and a suspect is facing double-murder charges in what authorities are calling a horrific and gruesome crime.

The victims have been identified as Vivian Pierce, 28, and her mother Rebecca Pierce, 56.

Calera Police Chief Don Hyde said the body of Vivian Pierce was found by family members Saturday evening at her home at 109 Section Line Road...

HPD: Suspect in common-law wife’s death hanged self

A man accused of killing his common-law wife at her apartment was found dead in his mother’s home after apparently hanging himself, Houston police said today.

The body of Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez, 37, was found Sunday in a bathroom in his mother’s house.

Rodriguez had been charged Friday with murder in the slaying of Rumalda Imelda Nino, 27...

Former Boy Scout leader pleads guilty to sex abuse

A former Boy Scout leader pleaded guilty in Vernon Superior Court on Friday to repeatedly raping a boy at a Bolton Scout camp over the course of six years, as well as sexually assaulting two other children.

James W. Harris III, 39, formerly of Tolland, pleaded guilty Friday to reduced charges of two counts of first-degree sexual assault, three counts of risk of injury to a minor, and one count of third-degree sexual assault.

Harris, who was living with his parents in Manchester at the time of his arrest, initially faced three counts of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of first-degree kidnapping, and a number of other charges. His lawyer, John O’Brien, reached a plea agreement with Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Leaming for the lesser charges...

The stepson and key witness in the murder trial of a Ramona man who strangled his wife and buried her in the backyard has died.

The stepson and key witness in the murder trial of a Ramona man who strangled his wife and buried her in the backyard has died.

Sean Turner, 25, was found dead Sunday night at the National City home that he shared with his grandmother, said his uncle, Rod Underhill.

A family member found Turner unconscious about 6 p.m. and called 911. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Underhill said...

NYPD Cop, Wife Dead in Centereach Murder-Suicide

A husband and wife were found dead in a murder-suicide was reported in Centereach on Monday, Jan. 12, at 12:35 p.m., Suffolk Police say.

Sixth Precinct Patrol Officers were dispatched to a Savoy Court home after a 911 caller told police that her mother had just been shot by her father and upon arrival, they discovered Elena Cole, 46, dead in an upstairs bedroom...

Man allegedly beat girlfriend, children

A benign request made by a 4-year-old boy sent Angel Garcia into a violent rage Wednesday night inside the second-floor apartment Garcia shares with the boy's mother, according to authorities.

Garcia allegedly became enraged when his girlfriend's son asked to go to the bathroom, said New Bedford police spokesman Jeffrey Silva.

Garcia, an unemployed 32-year-old who was born in Puerto Rico, told the child to relieve himself in his pants, then punched the boy in the face, Silva said.. When the boy's mother, who is three months pregnant, came to his aid, Garcia allegedly beat her as well, and when the couple's 1-year-old son started crying, Garcia turned his attention on the toddler, unleashing a brutal assault on his son...

Man sentenced to nine years for assaulting ex-girlfriend

A man convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison.

Fernando Morales, 22, was convicted Nov. 26 of assault likely to produce great bodily injury for the July 2007 attack at the victim's Coachella apartment.

Jurors acquitted Morales of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges...

Jury selection begins in Memphis murder trial

Trial is getting under way in Memphis for a man accused of beating his school teacher wife to death on Thanksgiving Day 2006.

The Commercial Appeal reports Jeffrey Scott's trial will rely largely on crime scene evidence...

Man Killed Girlfriend, Went To Party In Her Car

A man indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in the death of his on-again, off-again girlfriend went to a party after her death, driving her car, police said.

Vincent George Brown Jr., 39, is serving 13 months in a state prison for violating his probation in an unrelated drug case. Tampa police have a warrant to charge him in the Nov. 15 strangulation of Jennifer Johnson, 31.

A grand jury indicted Brown on felony first-degree murder and kidnapping charges Thursday. The indictment was unsealed today because of the arrest warrant...

Man convicted of sexual abuse of minor

Wearing a pink sweater and clutching a stuffed bunny rabbit, the 7-year-old girl spoke in a quavering voice as she answered the prosecutor's questions. The man she knew as "Mr. Mike" had kissed and fondled her numerous times, she told the jury, when her baby sitter left them alone.

The second-grader wiggled in her chair and colored furiously with markers as she told how the man had warned her to not to tell anyone. She put her hand up as if blocking from view the white-haired man sitting at the defense table.

That man, Michael Phillip Hein Sr., 62, was convicted of the sexual abuse of a minor, a third-degree sex offense, and two counts of second-degree assault by an Anne Arundel County Circuit jury in Judge J. Michael Wachs' courtroom yesterday...

Marietta Man in Custody For Sexual Abuse Charges

Last night Marietta police were searching the home of a man accused of sexual abuse.

Officers say not only did they find evidence of sexual abuse but they also found two young boys inside the home.

The investigation started last night, after a victim contacted police....

Incidents of child sexual abuse increasing; counties trying to cope

As many as one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthday, according to Darkness to Light, a national non-profit organization dealing with child sexual abuse.

"We can no longer put our head in the sand," said Billie Jo Weyant, director of Citizens Against Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse. "Until people face the reality, we need to bring abuse of all sorts to the forefront. If it's kept a secret and if it's kept under wraps, it gives the perpetrators every right to keep doing what they're doing. We need, as a society, to talk about it, realize this is going on and take care of it."...

Danger on campus College students more likely to be sexually assaulted

Sex crimes profiler Steve Thompson says sexual aggression is the number one problem facing college campuses.

"Nearly one in four women attending a university will be a survivor of a sexual assault," said Thompson at a campus forum at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge recently.

College students are more likely than the average population to be sexually assaulted by someone they know, said Thompson, who has worked as a sex crimes profiler on high profile rape cases, including the Kobe Bryant trial. He defines sexual assault as rape, domestic violence, stalking and harassment...

Man accused of stabbing ex-girlfriend's date arrested for attempted murder

A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend's date in the neck is sitting in jail on an attempted murder charge.

Keith Hamilton, 19, and the woman still live in the same home in the 80 block of Southeast 7th Street, Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Yvette Martinez said today. The woman went on a date last night with Jewel Wilson, 21...

Woman denies false gang-rape claim

A judge has asked police to disclose their grounds for charging a Christchurch woman with making a false gang-rape complaint, when he considers her application for continued name suppression on Thursday.

The woman maintains that the gang-rape did occur and entered a not guilty plea to the false complaint charge in Christchurch District Court today.

She also denied having a knife in her possession at Christchurch Central Police Station a month after the allegation of rape arising from an incident that began at Corsair Bay...

Police investigate woman's rape

The 28-year-old, who is understood to be a prostitute, got into a man's car in Crimea Street, Anderston, at about 0330 GMT on Wednesday.

About 11 hours later she found herself alone on nearby waste ground and realised that she had been raped...

Murder-suicide was act of revenge, court hears

A SYDNEY father murdered his teenage daughter before killing himself as an act of revenge to punish his wife for divorcing him, a court has heard.

In an inquest into the tragic murder/suicide, Deputy State Coroner Malcolm MacPherson yesterday found the 53-year-old man, who cannot be identified, strangled or suffocated his 13-year-old daughter in the family's Pennant Hills home before hanging himself.

The court heard divorce proceedings instigated by the man's wife were due to be finalised in the Family Court just five days after his "vindictive" act of revenge in January last year...

Louisa Man Charged With Wife's Murder

A Louisa County man is in custody, charged with the first degree murder of his wife.

According to police, 54-year-old Forrest Smythers, Jr., shot and killed 52-year-old Dawn Smythers with a .22-caliber rifle around 8:30 p.m. Sunday...

Husband Charged In Stabbing of Wife

Police have released more information about the stabbing Thursday morning that sent a husband and a wife to the hospital. Now, the husband is being charged with attempted homicide.

Police say at 7:17 a.m. they were called to 3043 Mallard Drive, where they found 40-year-old Bonaficio Pena and 27-year-old Gloria Pena suffering from stab wounds...More Here...

Sentencing delayed for Holladay man convicted of killing his wife

Due to allegations of defense attorney misconduct and incompetence, as well as a paperwork mix-up, a Friday sentencing hearing was delayed for a Holladay man convicted of running down his wife with a pickup truck.

Sherman Alexander Lynch III claims his trial attorneys refused to let him see all the evidence in the case, ignored evidence that would have proved his innocence and refused to have other items tested.

But the clincher for 3rd District Judge Deno Himonas was that Lynch did not receive his pre-sentence report until Friday. State law requires the reports to be provided to defendants at least three days before sentencing...More Here...

Local Man Charged With Wife's Murder

A Las Vegas man is facing murder charges after being arrested in Utah. Thomas Randolph was indicted this week on multiple charges for the murder of his wife, Sharon Clausse Randolph, and another man, Michael James Miller. Police say Thomas Randolph staged the murders last May to look like a home invasion burglary at his northwest valley home...More Here...

Slain Woman's Uncle Says He Told Her To 'Watch Out' For Husband

More details are being learned about a fatal standoff Thursday between a Lakemore Village man and police.

Police said Daniel Tice held officers off for nearly eight hours with his 4-year-old son inside. Officers believe he shot and killed his wife.

Police said Tice, 32, shot his wife, Brandi, in the head Thursday in their Martha Avenue home and then called a friend to tell her what he did...More Here...

Maiden Man Arrested on Child Sexual Assault Charges

Lincoln County Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a Maiden man Thursday on four felony counts of sexual assault involving a child. Detective Steve Grinnell identified the man as Jay Warren Smith, 47, of Graystone Lane, Maiden.

Smith is charged with Statutory Rape/ Sexual Offense involving a juvenile 13,14 or 15 years old, Indecent Liberties With A Minor, Sell or Deliver a Controlled Substance to a Minor, and Sexual Offense Intercourse by a Guardian...More Here...

Boy, 13, gets probation in sexual assault case

The sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl by four boys in a Halifax park last April was described Friday by the Crown as "a bullying incident that got out of hand and went to another level."

In Halifax youth court Friday, one of the boys, who turned 13 last month, was sentenced to one year on probation for his role in the attack, which left the girl traumatized, afraid of boys and even fearful of her own father and eight-year-old brother.

The girl’s brother witnessed the entire incident...More Here...

Gettysburg man wanted for sexual assault

Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a Gettysburg man who is wanted on sexual assault charges.

Bernard James, 19, faces statutory sexual assault, indecent assault and corruption of minors charges in connection with an alleged incident Dec. 20.

Police did not release any details about the incident...More Here...

Yoga Instructor Arrested, Accused Of Sex Assault

An Aspen yoga instructor has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a client during a lesson, reported the Aspen Times.

Steven Jon Roger faces one felony count of sexual assault and a misdemeanor count of unlawful sexual contact. He also faces charges related to alleged incidents in 2007, June 2006 and July 2005. If convicted, he could face more than 10 years in prison.

According to an arrest affidavit, Roger would touch a woman’s thighs and buttocks with his hands and without her consent during a class...More Here...

Murder/Suicide Husband Had a History of Domestic Abuse

A man facing a disorderly conduct charge in a domestic abuse case shot his wife to death and killed himself Friday before deputies at the scene could stop him.

"There wasn't time to do anything," Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said, because as soon as the man came out of the town of Eldorado residence, he started shooting...More Here...

Lori DeKleine remembered

In the months before her murder, Lori DeKleine began to “branch out.”

She started to confide in her sister and others about the abuse and manipulation she was subjected to by her husband, who at the time was a Holland police officer.

That’s why last summer, members of Holland Heights Christian Reformed Church decided that the best way to remember Lori, who loved gardening, would be to plant a tree outside the church...More Here...

Plea deal closes murder case

A Las Cruces man accused of strangling his wife to death in 2006 pleaded no contest Friday to a second-degree murder charge just days before his trial was to begin in District Court.

Jesus Antonio Martinez, 40, originally faced an open count of murder in the death of Mary Lorraine Martinez, 37.

Martinez pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and tampering with evidence charges before District Court Judge Stephen Bridgforth Friday. He could face a maximum sentence of 26 years...More Here...

Slayings typify domestic dangers

Angie Heatwole didn't appear to have had an order of protection against her husband and presumed killer, but that's no indication she wasn't in an abusive relationship.

Experts say not all cases of domestic abuse are known to police or even to neighbors.

“You'd probably be very surprised at some of the people who are victims and perpetrators,” said Kim Roberts, director of REACH of Haywood County, an anti-domestic abuse agency...More Here...

Joliet man charged in fatal stabbing of former girlfriend

A Joliet man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend was ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail by a Will County judge Friday.

Jeramy J. Green, 23, of the 1800 block of Ashbury Circle Drive is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Assistant State's Atty. Michael Casson said that Green admitted to stabbing Brittany Brooks, 21, of Joliet, Wednesday night while they quarreled in her car. Green then dragged her out and continued to stab her a total of 34 times, he said...More Here...

Trucker charged in rape, abduction

A 41-year-old trucker wanted in the rape and abduction of a 16-year-old girl was arrested within hours Friday after police found him hiding in the attic of his home in West Chester Township.

Steven Toy was jailed in Butler County, while his wife, Kimberly, is charged with obstructing justice for allegedly refusing to tell police his whereabouts when they showed up at the home on Cindy Lou Court. Police acquired a search warrant for the home and found Toy there about 1:45 p.m.

Dispatchers put a broadcast out to area departments Friday morning looking for Toy after the teen from Colerain Township burst through the front door at the Learning Tree Academy, near Wal-Mart off Cincinnati-Dayton Road, just before 11 a.m...More Here...

Former officer denies child rape

A former Belchertown police officer pleaded innocent Wednesday in Hampden Superior Court to a charge of forcible rape of a child.

Sean F. Bracey, 42, of 34 Pine Grove St., also pleaded innocent to indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years old or older. Both charges list the same initials for the alleged victim.

Judge Constance M. Sweeney set bail at $50,000 cash for Bracey. He can have no contact with the alleged victim pending his prosecution...More Here...

Police investigate 2 OKC rapes

The rapes and abductions of two women may have been committed by a man whom police believe may have attacked others.

John Early Stepney Jr., 31, was arrested Thursday in connection with two assaults that were reported within three weeks of each other in northwest Oklahoma City, police said.

Stepney faces complaints including rape, rape by instrumentation, pointing a firearm, armed robbery and vehicle larceny, police Master Sgt. Gary Knight said. A judge denied bail until charges are filed...More Here...

Library Rape Victim To Get Help

A team of volunteer therapists is taking over the care of an 18-year-old woman who survived being raped and beaten nearly to death at the Bloomingdale Regional Library last April.

Family friend and physical therapist Cheryl Zemina said therapy services that had been covered by the state's insurance soon will end for the young woman, who is back at her South Shore home. Professionals in the community, however, have offered to make sure she receives all the therapy she needs.

The former East Bay High School student, whose name is being withheld to protect her identity, was attacked the evening of April 24 while returning books to the library...More Here...

Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it

A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and took him to the infirmary...More Here...

Zendejas attorneys fail in effort to dismiss rape charges

A judge Friday denied a defense motion to dismiss two rape charges against former NFL placekicker Tony Zendejas.

Zendejas' attorneys argued in Pomona Superior Court there wasn't enough evidence presented at October's preliminary hearing for the former Los Angeles Ram to be held to answer on charges related to Zendejas' alleged drugging of the woman he is accused of raping.

Prosecutors said Zendejas, an NFL placekicker from 1985 to 1995, drugged a woman in January 2008 at the restaurant he owns in San Dimas - Zendejas Mexican Restaurant - then raped and sodomized her at a nearby motel while she was incapacitated...More Here...

DeSoto County Man Accused of Killing Stepdaughter

A DeSoto County man is in jail accused of killing his stepdaughter. It's the county's first homicide of the year. Police say Kimberly Field was trying to stop a fight between her mother and stepfather when she was shot and killed.

Desoto County Sheriff Bill Racso says Wednesday night deputies got a call about a deadly domestic issue.

"We found a 34-year-old female had been shot with a 16 gauge shot gun," he said...More Here..

Man charged with assaulting toddlers, pregnant girlfriend

New Bedford police say they arrested a local dad last night on charges that he attacked his 1-year-old son, his pregnant girlfriend and his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son during a series of “vicious and savage acts of violence.”

Angel Matos-Garcia, 32, was arrested last night for allegedly assaulting his 1-year-old son, his girlfriend who is three months pregnant with his baby and his girlfriend’s 4-year-old child from a previous relationship, according to New Bedford Police.

Matos-Garcia, who lives on North Front Street in New Bedford, will be arraigned in New Bedford District Court this morning on multiple felonies, New Bedford Police spokesman Lt. Jeffrey Silva said in a statement last night. Charges include assault and battery and mayhem, he said...More Here...

Batterer charged in deaths of his mom, ex

A chronic domestic batterer murdered his ex-girlfriend, dressed up her body and put makeup on her face, leaving a twisted love note in blood on the wall after killing his own mother during a weekend rampage in New Bedford, authorities said yesterday.

Gary Anthony Gomes, 35, of New Bedford was held without bail yesterday in New Bedford District Court on two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping.

On Tuesday, authorities discovered the bodies of Katherine Gomes, 61, the suspect’s mother, and his former girlfriend Robyn N. Mendes, 48, both stabbed to death...More Here...