an illusion of equality...
An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to abducting his two young sons at knifepoint and killing one of them just days after his wife told him she wanted a divorce.
Katron Walker pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder as part of an agreement entered in court Monday in Terre Haute.
Prosecutors dropped their request for the death penalty, and a judge scheduled a sentencing hearing to begin Aug. 18...
Labels: abduction, attempted murder, children, Collin Walker, Indiana, knife, murder, son
Police searched Monday for a man wanted for allegedly killing his wife as she slept with their two daughters, one of whom told a 911 dispatcher, "Daddy stabbed mommy."
Joseph L. Warnock, 41, faces an arrest warrant alleging murder in Sunday's death of Angela Warnock, 38, who police said was fatally stabbed in her bed.
He remained at large Monday night after police scoured the area around the couple's home just west of Indianapolis, using a bloodhound at one point in their search, said Lt. Roger Call of the Hendricks County Sheriff's Department...
Labels: Angela Warnock, children as witness, divorce, Indiana, knife, murder, on the lam, restraining order, separated, wife
Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a father and young daughter.
A deputy found the bodies of 29-year-old Ryan Peters and his 3-year-old daughter Teigan Peters, both from the Phoenix-area, shortly after midnight on Monday. They were discovered in the area of Parissawampitts Point off Highway 67 leading to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
Mesa police officers called the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday after a relative of Ryan’s called police and said they were concerned for Ryan and Teigan’s safety. The relative described Ryan as “despondent” and possibly suicidal as the result of a divorce and a custody decision.
**Blog Author note: Why was this child in the custody of the father if he was suicidal and despondent? Wake the hell up people!!!!**
Authorities say a 27-year-old suburban Chicago man has been charged with sexual assault and abuse of an infant.
The Kendall County Sheriff's office says Joe Harvey Jr. was charged after the mother noticed injuries to the child last week and went to an Aurora hospital.
Other details aren't available, including the gender and age of the infant.
Harvey's a former boyfriend of the 20-year-old mother. On Saturday night, the Montgomery man was still in jail on a $250,000 bond. His arraignment's Monday...
A man accused of killing his estranged wife was arrested Friday, holding their 14-month-old daughter in his arms.
Myron Stenhouse, 45, called 911 Friday afternoon, asking officers be sent to his home at 6236 20th Way South. He mentioned something about a knife and put the phone down, leaving the line open, police said.
When he returned to the phone, he said his wife was lying on the floor...
**Blog Author note: I will keep saying...the most dangerous time for a victim is when she leaves the relationship**
Friends, family and neighbors are gathering Friday to remember Amy Wilcox.
Wilcox died last week from the injuries she suffered after prosecutors say her estranged husband set her on fire back in April.
Tom Wilcox was indicted Thursday on seven counts, including aggravated murder...
Labels: aggravated murder, Amy Wilcox, arson, domestic violence, murder, Ohio, wife
A Whitestown nurse died a day after police said she was beaten bloody and unconscious with a hammer in her upscale townhome.
Her ex-husband will be charged with murder next week, authorities said.
Michael Stayer, 31, Zionsville, had called police to report he'd been beaten with a hammer by his wife, but paramedics and authorities found more than his injured hand. Beth Stayer, 32, was unresponsive in her 2-year-old child's bedroom in the new townhome they shared with her 5-year-old, police said...
Another neighbor, Bob Jordan, 47, is a pastor who moved in across the street from Beth Stayer last month. Jordan said he hopes the "tragic" event underscores the need for battered women to seek help...
**Blog Author note: Battered women need to seek PROTECTION not "help", when they have already left like this woman, Beth Stayer, did.
Batterers, are the people who need to seek "help."**
Authorities say a 50-year-old Hudson Valley man has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed his wife and teenage daughter with an ice pick.
The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office says Kerry Peck stabbed his wife and 16-year-old daughter in the neck at 1 a.m. Tuesday inside their home in the town of LaGrange, near Poughkeepsie.
Officials say the injuries weren't life-threatening...
Labels: attempted murder, daughter, New York, teen, wife
A Boston man has been convicted a second time of strangling his estranged wife.
Prosecutors say 50-year-old Agapito Lao was found guilty in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday of first-degree murder for beating and strangling 40-year-old Alicia Lao in her Chelsea apartment on May 2, 2000. She died about two weeks later.
Authorities say he killed her two days after she filed for divorce because she was involved in another relationship...
**Blog author note: I will keep saying it: Violence escalates when the victim finally decides to leave. It is not the beginning of abuse, but merely the continuation of it--even if a history of violence is unknown to family and friends. Judges must continue to issue protective orders when women ask for them. Law enforcement must act quickly upon violations. Safety plans must be in place.
We must stop this fixation on "false allegations."**
His first murder conviction was overturned, but Warren Powell didn't fare any better the second time around.
A dozen years after his first trial, Powell was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum of life in prison for strangling his pregnant wife. The sentence of 25 years to life begins after he serves 15 to 30 years for an unrelated drug conviction.
The 1997 murder verdict was overturned by an appellate court in 2004 because of an error in jury selection...
Labels: life in prison, Mary Ann Powell, New York, pregnant, river, strangulation, wife
A night of partying and hanging out turned tragic late Sunday night as a woman is dead and her husband is in jail.
A domestic dispute between Patricia and Tommy Gutierrez boiled over into murder. Patricia's sons Jacob and Jesus Gonzales along with several other family member watched the tragedy unfold at 1207 Sycamore Street around 1:45 AM.
They told me that the family was hanging out and laughing, Tommy then left, came back with a shotgun, shot Patricia in the back, then said "Who will get the last laugh now and I'll bury her"...
Labels: domestic dispute, gun, murder, Patricia Gutierrez, Texas, wife
A man from Jacksonville has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife back in 2007.
Deputies arrested Oscar Hernandez, 67, Monday afternoon on a charge of second-degree murder.
His wife, Maria E. Martinez, 51, was found partially clothed in a ditch by two men working for the Department of Environmental Protection as they were testing soil in the area.
Hernandez had reported his wife missing the day before with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office after he said she went on an early morning walk and never returned...
A 59-year-old man was on Sunday sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for the murder of his wife at their Lyndhurst Lake home, in Nottingham Road, in 2007.
Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner, sitting in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, found Hilton Shaw responsible for the death of his wife, Susan Margaret Shaw, 36, on June 3, 2007...
Original story (without father's name) here http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/1953022.html
A father was suspected of shooting and killing his two children on Tuesday and then turning the gun on himself in an apparent attempted suicide, police said.
Police had been looking for the 8-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother after their mother reported to authorities that "her estranged husband had called saying he had picked the kids up from the school and planned to drive them to an unknown location and kill them," spokesman John Cannon said.
A short time later, officers were called to an apartment complex in southwest Houston after a resident and a maintenance worker became concerned when they saw two children and a man in a car with its engine on...
The room where an Ocala woman was brutally beaten with two golf clubs on Sunday looked like a murder scene.
A blood-soaked mattress was on the floor, surrounded by blood-spattered walls. A few specks of blood dotted the ceiling. More blood, likely spat by the 22-year-old victim, was on the wall near the head of the bed.
Ocala police say the woman was struck at least 10 times with a driver and putter. She was still hospitalized Tuesday, recovering from a seven-hour surgery...
**Blog author note: Aggravated domestic violence? NO!
Attempted murder? Hell YEAH!
What is wrong with the legal system?**
For the second time in less than a month, Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an apparent murder suicide where a estranged wife was killed by her husband.
A tragic ending to allegedly months of domestic abuse for a Utah County couple; officials say a man shot his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself.
46-year-old Brian Sebastian and 40-year-old Jeanie White were found by Springville police late Monday night in their bedroom, both with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Police had been called out to the house by Jeanie's daughter, who became worried when she hadn't heard from her mother...
Last Friday, another fight broke out after it's believed Sabastian had discovered Jeanie's plan to move out. ...
**Blog author note: And we say time and time again, the most dangerous time for a victim of violence, is when she decides to leave. Is anyone listening?**
A former Forrest City resident died last week from stab wounds allegedly inflicted by her husband at their home in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
Captain Loyd Baker, with the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit, said Shanta Shinell Holland Hicks, 28, died Friday morning from stab wounds she suffered Thursday night during an attack by her husband, Tyrone Hicks, 28.
Hicks drove to an Alabama State Police office near his home shortly after the attack and turned himself in without incident. “He told the dispatcher he had just killed his wife, and he was taken into custody,” Baker said.
According to reports, the Hicks shared a home with their four children and her 18-year-old brother, who police have not identified, according to a report by the Tuscaloosa News...
A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty today to stabbing to death an estranged girlfriend and a male acquaintance in 2007.
Jerome Usher, of Virgina Beach, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in the Nov. 4, 2007, killings of Brenda Gregory Burnett and James Vass.
Usher faces life in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 23...
Walter E. Lassa, 54, of the town of Dewey, agreed to plead guilty this morning to first-degree intentional homicide charge in the shooting death of Robin Dunwoody, 39, of Schofield.
In exchange for the plea, the state dropped charges of false imprisonment and making threats of harm.
Wausau police said that Lassa admitted fatally shooting Dunwoody Jan. 3 outside of her workplace in Wausau. Dunwoody was shot twice with a 12-gauge shotgun at close range outside Wausau Manor, a senior housing facility where Dunwoody was about to begin work, according to court records. Dunwoody died at the scene, and Lassa was arrested in Portage County.
Labels: ex-girlfriend, guilty, gun, murder, Robin Dunwoody, Wisconsin
Police believe a 26-year-old man shot and killed his live-in girlfriend Sunday night before taking his own life with a high-powered rifle.
Chief Tim Schweder of the Monett Police Department said in a news release that officers were called at 9:45 p.m. Sunday to 805 N. Euclid St. in reference to a domestic disturbance. A female friend of the couple who lived at the address met officers outside the home...
A Binghamton couple is dead. Police say it's a murder-suicide inside their apartment.
Their 2 sons were home and heard the gunshots.
As Action News reporter Gabe Osterhout tells us, it's a shock because there's no history of violence between the couple.
Binghamton police were called to this home at 60 Lake Avenue around 11:15 Sunday night...
Labels: gun, murder-suicide, New York, Sy Thongthip, wife
Just after 11:00AM Monday morning Seminole County Deputies responded to a call from a cleaning lady who found a man unresponsive in his Heathrow home.
When deputies arrived at 1214 Trentwood Court, they found 41-year-old J.D. Wood, 40-year-old Cindy Wood, and their two children Aubrey(12) and Dillion(10) dead inside the home in an apparent murder-suicide.
"It's a huge tragedy," said Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger...
**Special note from blog author: Dicks [Sporting Goods], which is relatively new to Florida, is a horrible company to work for. They don't give a fuck about their employees. They hire people as full-time, but give them part-time hours so that they work just enough NOT to qualify for unemployment when they continuously cut their hours. Write corporate/headquarters all you want, no one will respond to your complaints. Local stores run their employees like slaves. No growth within as they work you until you quit, then, they just hire someone else. Racial discrimination applies.**
Labels: children, Cindy Wood, depression, financial problems, Florida, gun, murder-suicide, wife
A Worcestershire man who fled to Britain after murdering his former girlfriend in Florida has been jailed for life. Darren John Bridgeman, aged 37, from Malvern, was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting Tracy Bennawit He was also found guilty of attempted second-degree murder for wounding her new boyfriend....
The court rejected arguments that Bridgeman was only guilty of manslaughter because he acted in the heat of passion...
A man was charged with attempted murder on Sunday after his girlfriend was shot in the face in an apparent domestic dispute, police said.
The shooting happened in an apartment in Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
Police said 20-year-old Dedrick Labee II was living with the 20-year-old victim, who was in critical condition at University Hospital in New Orleans after the 10:30 a.m. shooting...
Eugene Tupuola remains in a police cellblock tonight after being arrested on Friday night on charges of attempted murder.
The 40-year-old man was arrested at 11:30 p.m. Friday in Kapolei. Honolulu police say he showed up at a party on June 4 where his estranged wife was attending. He asked to speak to her and they began to argue...
Labels: argument, attempted murder, gun, Hawaii, wife
A 76-year-old Queens barber slashed his wife's throat with a butcher knife Sunday, then turned the knife on himself as their developmentally disabled son watched in horror, cops said.
The bloody murder-suicide occurred about 7:35 p.m. in the Ozone Park apartment that the killer, Eusebio Salazar, shared with Geraldina Salazar, 51, and their grown son, who was born with Down syndrome.
"My mom! My mom!" cried the son, who ran downstairs to get deli owner Darrio Urquijo, 50.
Urquijo said he found the husband and wife on the floor of their bedroom, a brown-handled knife sticking out of the man's chest.
"I go with the kid and I see the guy on the floor, the wife, too, and he has a knife in his chest," Urquijo said. "There was a lot of blood on his hands."...
Neighbors said Eusebio Salazar suffered a stroke recently and had been depressed.
"They were wonderful people," neighbor Sandra Liciaga said. "They looked happy. That's why I'm so shocked."...
Labels: Geraldina Salazar, knife, New York, wife, witness
Two girls from southern Ohio say they were brought to Toledo against their will
It is every parent's nightmare and it has happened here. Two young girls were lured to Toledo through an internet relationship ending with a sexual assault.
Toledo police say two girls were sexually assaulted by someone they met on MySpace...
Sgt Harris warns internet crimes can be avoided; parents just need to pay attention. "The first line of policing is watch what your kids are doing on the internet. A 12-year-old and 13-year-old. I can't imagine why they would be on MySpace chatting with people."
An Atkins man pleaded guilty May 19 to second-degree sexual assault and has been sentenced to three years and six months in the Arkansas Department of Correction by Circuit Judge William M. Pearson.
Robert L. McCabe, 39, was arrested in March 2008 after the Pope County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) received information he may have engaged in sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl.
According to charging documents filed in circuit court, the alleged victim told her parents McCabe “pinched” her inappropriately...
A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a Forest Lake High School student in a school entryway.
The man is being held on suspicion of 1st degree sexual assault for the incident, which occurred on Wednesday after classes ended, police said.
Police said a female student let the suspect into a locked door, and that he assaulted her just inside the door...
Police said the man charged with the sexual assault of a woman at an Austin hotel now faces additional charges. Thursday police charged Jason Wayne Sutton with impersonating a public servant. According to an affidavit, Sutton responded to the woman's online advertisement for "sensual rubdowns" and arranged to meet her at the hotel...
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has filed a criminal complaint against a man suspected of killing his wife and daughter and injuring his son.
Michael Miller, 29, of Glendale, is accused of two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted first degree murder. The complaint was filed Tuesday.
Miller is suspected of stabbing his wife, 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son with a kitchen knife last Saturday. His wife and daughter died. His son was injured, underwent surgery at a local hospital and is expected to recover...Authorities say the couple had been having family problems and there was talk of a divorce. But, when deputies arrived at a small camper Sunday afternoon they found the couple dead of an apparent murder-suicide.
Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said his deputies responded to a location on County Road 4712 8 a.m. Sunday morning where they found the bodies of 50-year-old Marc McRae and his estranged wife, 46-year-old Lori McRae...
**Blog author note: After separation, violence often increases.**
Labels: divorce, gun, Lori McRae, marital problems, separated, Texas, wife
A Pierce County sheriff's deputy was shot in the hand as he responded to a domestic violence call involving a Spanaway, Wash., woman who said she'd been tied up overnight.
Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says his office got a 911 call Monday afternoon from a neighbor after a 71-year-old woman freed herself, climbed over a fence and asked for help. The spokesman described the woman as the girlfriend of a man at the house.
When two deputies arrived, they were greeted by a man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, who fired at them. Troyer says the injured deputy was treated by paramedics...
North Slope Borough police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Barrow.
Police got a report of shots fired and a woman lying in the street early Saturday morning. They found 19-year-old Frederick Igtanloc and a 16-year-old girl both suffering from gunshot wounds.
Police say Igtanloc shot the girl in the chest and head before turning the gun on himself...
Another one here http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/815551.html
Three children found their parents shot to death inside their Encino home in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.
Investigators say the couple's 12-year-old son reported the shooting in the 4800 block of Haskell Avenue at about 12:35 p.m. Sunday.
Officers responding to the call found Pedro Papias, 41, and Rosa Valencia, 35, shot to death inside the home, according to Officer Sara Faden.
The couple's two other children -- a 10-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl -- were also home at the time of the shooting...
Police in Oregon say a 45-year-old father found dead with his two children along a hiking trail is believed to have shot them before killing himself.
The bodies were found at a nature preserve Friday. A medical examiner confirms that all three were shot with a 9mm. handgun and authorities recovered such a gun from the site.
A police spokesman tells KGW news that detectives have interviewed family members and believe the father had emotional issues linked to his divorce. He had no criminal record but was unemployed...
Labels: children, divorce, emotional issues, gun, murder-suicide, Oregon
William Brown Wood Jr. said if he ever took his own life, something might also happen to his ex-wife.
Wood also told his longtime girlfriend that if he killed himself he wouldn't burden her by leaving behind his body — or his two beloved dogs.
Tragically, authorities say he was a man of his word.
His ex-wife, Donna Aline Havard Wood, 54, was found shot to death in her Snell Isle home at 1927 Brightwaters Blvd. NE on Friday night, St. Petersburg police said...
An attempted murder-suicide sends a North Tonawanda woman to the hospital with eight gunshot wounds. Police later found her ex-boyfriend dead.
Buffalo Police found 48-year-old Richard Hance's body inside his car, which was parked in a parking lot off the I-190 near the Niagara River. North Tonawanda police tracked him down by triangulating his cell phone signal. They say he had shot himself after attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend.
A desperate 9-1-1 call from a woman at an apartment on Falconer Street in North Tonawanda came in early this morning. "She gave us the name of who her shooter was. When officers arrived we found her with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso," said North Tonawanda Police Chief Randy Szukala....
This incident, however, is just the latest one in a strong of violent and deadly domestic violence attacks on women here in Western New York. "Since last July of 2008, we've had 13 murders in Erie and Niagara counties and now this latest attempted murder," said Linda Ray, Executive Director of the Family Justice Center in Erie County....
"What we know is that the economy, poverty, crisis doesn't cause domestic violence, it certainly can exacerbate it, which may be the case in these situations," said Ray.
A Glendale man is suspected of killing his wife and 10-year-old daughter and seriously injuring his 4-year-old son early Saturday morning in a domestic-violence incident, police said.
Michael Miller is being held on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, said Sgt. Jim Cunningham, a Glendale police spokesman.
Miller, 29, is accused of stabbing to death his 28-year-old wife, Adreana Miller and their daughter at their home in the 7700 block of West Vermont Avenue, Cunningham said...A man shot and killed his estranged wife in her home, then drove to a nearby shopping center in Carrollwood and killed himself, authorities said Sunday.
The shootings appear to have taken place late Saturday or early Sunday, but it will take an autopsy to narrow down the time, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said.
Sheriff's officials did not release the couple's names Sunday because they were relying on law enforcement authorities outside Florida to notify their relatives, Callaway said...