Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, was captured in Washington state Wednesday after a multi-state manhunt and made an initial appearance before a judge Thursday. He’s accused of killing his grandmother, cousin and cousin’s boyfriend at their rural home last Tuesday. A 3-year-old child witnessed the killing of three people in a remote area of Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation and named a family member as the shooter, according to an FBI affidavit. Read the full article »
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Montana Reservation Shooting Leaves Three Dead – Suspect Caught
By Dawn in Crime, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, Violence at October 10th, 2011 | No commentsTags: investigation, manhunt, murder, Violence
Billy Bob Thornton’s daughter gets 20 years in jail
By alisa in Celebrity, court cases, Crime, murder at October 7th, 2011 | No commentsORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – The estranged daughter of Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton was sentenced in Florida on Thursday to 20 years in prison for killing a child in her care.
Amanda Brumfield, 32, was convicted in Orlando in May of the aggravated manslaughter of Olivia Madison Garcia, the 1-year-old daughter of one of her close friends.
The child’s mother, Heather Murphy, said after the sentencing that she was surprised at how long a prison term Brumfield received, but that it meant little to her.
“None of it satisfies me. It doesn’t matter…I won’t ever see Olivia again,” Murphy told reporters.
Brumfield contended at trial that Olivia fell out of her playpen and hit her head in October 2008, but prosecutors argued the child’s skull fracture and brain bleeding were no accident. Read the full article »
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Amanda Knox Trial is Over, but Meredith Kercher Murder Mystery Remains
By Dawn in Crime, Interrogation, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, murder at October 7th, 2011 | No comments
Merideth’s killer was no expert at murder. It was amateur work. There were bloody fingerprints and footprints all over the apartment, and the killer even defecated in the toilet and forgot to flush. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Whoever murdered Meredith Kercher didn’t know how to use a knife.
The first two wounds weren’t deep enough to do fatal damage, the knife catching on bone. On the third attempt, the killer plunged the knife into a soft spot in her throat. The attacker then pulled the weapon from left to right several times in a sawing motion, then up and back, leaving a gash more than three inches long and three inches deep. It was evident from the savagery of this final blow, that the intent was to kill. But since the blade missed the carotid artery, Kercher’s agony lasted as long as ten minutes. An experienced killer would have known better. Read the full article »
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Fugitive Caught 41 years After Escaping NJ Prison
By Dawn in Burlary, Crime, Investigations, Most Wanted, MSI Detective Services, murder at October 5th, 2011 | No comments
A most-wanted murderer who has been on the run since he escaped a New Jersey prison and allegedly hijacked a plane from Detroit in the 1970s has been caught after an investigation that spanned four states, three continents and four decades. FBI and New Jersey officials tracked hunted killer George Wright to a town outside Lisbon, where Portuguese authorities arrested him last week.
Decades ago, Wright was in a New Jersey prison, serving a 30-year sentence for the 1962 robbing and killing of a war hero he had gunned down at an Esso gas station in Farmingdale, N.J. World War II Bronze Star recipient Walter Paterson was killed for the $70 in his pocket.
In August 1970, Wright and two others escaped from the Leesburg, N.J. facility, stole the warden’s car and headed to Atlantic City. From there they went to Detroit, where they joined up with the Black Liberation Army. He lived under an alias, working part-time as a model to pay bills.
Two years later, Wright and several others commandeered a Delta Airlines flight from Detroit to Miami — Wright boarded the flight dressed as a priest, with a gun hidden in the cut-out pages of a Bible. His fellow members of the Black Liberation Army also boarded with weapons, and 88 passengers were held hostage.
It was one of the most daring hijackings in history, and also one of the most humiliating for the FBI. Agents were forced to wear bathing suits to deliver a suitcase of cash to Wright and his fellow hijackers on a Miami runway. The hijackers wanted to be sure they weren’t carrying weapons.
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