Agapito Lao Found Guilty of the Strangulation Death of His 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."**

Warren Powell Gets Life Sentence for Strangling Pregnant Wife and Dumping Her Body

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...

Jacksonville's Oscar Hernandez has been Charged with the Murder of His 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...

Ewa man convicted of murder, again

An Oahu jury convicted Darnell Griffin, 50, of second-degree murder in the strangulation death of Evelyn Luka in 1999.

The jury returned its verdict this afternoon after getting the case Friday afternoon.
Griffin had no reaction as the verdict was read in court.

Griffin was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault. On the morning of Sept. 6, 1999, Luka was found unconscious near the Ka Uka Boulevard onramp of the H-2 freeway.

Luka remained in a coma at the Queen’s Medical Center with brain damage. She was taken off life support on Oct. 2 after she failed to regain consciousness...

Prosecutor Wants To Charge Sex Offender In 4th Death

A prosecutor in Cincinnati says he is seeking another murder charge against a registered sex offender already scheduled for trial in the strangulation death of a teenage girl.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters says he will take new evidence to a grand jury involving the death of a woman whose charred bones were found about 10 months ago. The woman’s name has not been released...

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...

Man strangles girlfriend to death with bra

A missing Orlando woman was found dead in her apartment early Sunday, the victim of an apparent homicide.

Orlando police were tipped off Saturday that Lolitta L. Flores, 49, may have been killed by her boyfriend, Abdullah A. Khalig, on Feb. 22, reports show. The two had a long history of domestic violence.

Police were notified of the possible murder Feb. 28, when a man told them Khalig confided in him that he had killed Flores by strangling her with a bra...

Man Pleads Guilty to Murder, Avoids Death Penalty

A Berks County man has avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to first degree murder for strangling his wife. Joseph Kramer will now spend the rest of his life in prison. Authorities say Kramer strangled his wife Amy inside her house in Pottstown, Montgomery County in October...

HSBC boss in court over wife's murder

AN HSBC boss appeared in court last week charged with the murder of his wife at their suburban home.

Neil Ellerbeck, 45, of Canford Close, Enfield, appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday, February 23, and will return on August 10 for a two-week trial.

He is charged with strangling to death his wife of 14 years, Katherine, 46, on November 14 last year.

Ellerbeck was arrested at the scene and later charged with the murder.

Mrs Ellerbeck was pronounced dead at 12.10pm and a post mortem at Hornsey Mortuary on Saturday gave cause of death as asphyxiation and manual compression of the neck...

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...

Double murder, suicide in Noble County

A young boy, his mother and father were all discovered early this morning at their home on Hunters Cut Road in Noble County after the father, Theodore A. Bayly, 39, called saying he had killed his family and was going to kill himself.

Noble County Sheriff Landon Smith said Bayly called his office just before 2 a.m. saying he had killed his wife, Janice, 40, and their son, Colton, 11 and told dispatchers where to find the bodies.

Smith said the dispatcher attempted to talk to Bayly for seven minutes, but Bayly went ahead and shot himself on an embankment near the family’s mobile home.
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...