Divorced for Only One Month, Michael Stayer Beats His Ex-Wife to Death with a Hammer with the Children Home

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."**

Serial abuser gets 50 years to life for slaying

An El Sobrante man who had a history of terrorizing his former girlfriend was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison Monday for strangling her and stuffing her body in the trunk of his car.

Scott McAlpin, 28, subjected his girlfriend, 22-year-old Anastasia Melnitchenko of San Francisco, to an abusive relationship before killing her Oct. 22, 2005, authorities said. He had been served with nine restraining orders for beating and threatening her before the slaying.

McAlpin beat and strangled Melnitchenko four days after his most recent release from jail for abusing her and within hours of taking her to eat at a restaurant in Pinole...

Ex-Resident Charged With Fatally Beating Stepson

A former Anne Arundel County man faces a federal murder charge alleging that he beat his 8-year-old stepson at a U.S. Air Force base in Japan almost two years ago.

Roberto E. DeLeon, 27, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday in a case that horrified the Japanese public on the island of Okinawa in 2007. DeLeon, who was not a service member, lived with his wife, Air Force Staff Sgt. Sabrina Renee DeLeon, and her children on the Kadena Air Base at the time of the boy's death...

Trial starts for upstate NY man in wife's death

A jury is hearing evidence in the case of a 60-year-old upstate New York man accused of killing his estranged wife.

The Cortland County trial began Wednesday with opening arguments from prosecutors and the lawyer for Charles "Randy" Thibeault (THEE'-boh).

District Attorney Mark Suben described Thibeault as an enraged man bent on exacting revenge on his wife Wendy because she had filed for divorce. Suben said he would prove his case using blood evidence, statements from neighbors and the lack of an alibi...

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...

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...

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...