PHILADELPHIA—A Pennsylvania judge has overturned the convictions of three men imprisoned for decades in the 1997 slaying of a 70-year-old woman even though their DNA never matched that found at the scene, but they will remain in prison while a prosecutor decides whether to appeal. The Delaware County judge on Thursday ordered new trials for […]
TRENTON, N.J.—A man charged in the fatal shooting of three family members in Pennsylvania and related carjacking and weapons counts in New Jersey will remain behind bars while his case proceeds, a judge ruled Wednesday. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, appeared via video from the Mercer County jail for his initial court appearance on the New […]
INDIANAPOLIS—A judge approved two additional murder counts Monday against an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls but rejected a prosecutor’s bid to add kidnapping charges. The new charges approved against Richard Allen of Delphi are murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Mr. Allen was arrested in October 2022 and […]
LEVITTOWN, Pa.—A man faces murder charges in Pennsylvania and carjacking and weapons charges in New Jersey after allegedly killing three family members, carjacking vehicles in both states and evading law enforcement for hours as police mobilized in two states, authorities said Sunday. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, is charged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with three counts […]
Republican lawmakers in Georgia are seeking to tighten immigration laws after a university nursing student in Athens was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant. Jose Antonio Ibarra—a 26-year-old from Venezuela who entered the country just 18 months ago—is the suspect in the killing of Laken Riley, 22, at Augusta University’s Athens campus. Ms. Riley disappeared […]
PERU, Ind.—A northern Indiana man convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of a woman, her young daughter and her fiancé has been sentenced to 195 years in prison. A Miami County judge sentenced Mitchell Page, 27, of Brookston last week to the maximum 65 years for each of three murder counts he was convicted of, […]
NEW YORK—More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a moment authorities had long awaited in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive cases. An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury found Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald […]
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky.—A college wrestler in Kentucky was killed by a teammate at a private Christian university over the weekend, authorities said. Josiah Kilman, 18, was pronounced dead at a hospital after police officers were called early Saturday to Campbellsville University in central Kentucky, police said in a news release. The freshman theology major and wrestling […]
DENVER—A college student accused of killing his roommate and another person at a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs dorm room last week told his roommate a month earlier he would “kill him” if he was asked to take out the trash again, according to a court document released Friday. The dispute in early January was reported […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A South African man who tortured an Alaska Native woman and narrated as he recorded a video of her dying was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday for killing her and another Native woman. The Anchorage jury returned a unanimous verdict against Brian Steven Smith after deliberating for less than two hours. Mr. […]
BOSTON—A Massachusetts man charged with killing his wife was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years behind bars over an unrelated art fraud case involving the sale of two fake Andy Warhol paintings. Brian Walshe, who faces first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 39-year-old Ana Walshe, was sentenced to 37 months for […]
MANCHESTER, N.H.—A New Hampshire man was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, who police believe was killed nearly two years before she was reported missing in 2021 and whose body was never found. Adam Montgomery, 34, did not attend the trial and wasn’t present when jurors returned their verdict. […]
NEW YORK—A man convicted in the notorious killing of a rookie New York City police officer at the height of the city’s crack cocaine epidemic decades ago has been denied parole, state corrections officials confirmed Sunday. Todd Scott had been serving 25 years to life for his role in the shooting death of Officer Edward […]
LA CROSSE, Wis.—A man charged in the fatal 2021 shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a Wisconsin quarry has been sentenced to life in prison. A La Crosse County judge sentenced Khamthaneth Rattanasack on Monday to a life sentence specifying that the Wausau man cannot seek early release until he’s served 35 […]
FAIRFAX, Va.—A man who fled the country after he was charged with the slaying of his wife more than 30 years ago in northern Virginia has been returned to the U.S. to face murder charges, police said Monday. At a press conference Monday, Fairfax County Police officers said that Jose Lazaro Cruz was charged with […]
FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the car she was riding in mistakenly drove up his backcountry driveway in upstate New York testified at his trial Friday that he believed he was under siege that night and now feels “like my soul is dead.” But he maintained the […]
HATBORO, Pa.—A suburban Philadelphia man is accused of stabbing to death a neighbor with whom he had long feuded over the accused man’s loud snoring that could be heard through a wall connecting their homes, authorities said Friday. Christopher James Casey, 55, was charged Thursday with causing the death four days earlier of Robert Wallace, […]
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.—A man arrested last month in Connecticut in the killing of a television news anchor’s mother in Vermont last February has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. Shawn Conlon, 44, was arraigned in Brattleboro on Friday. Claudia Voight, 73, of Windham, Vermont, died in her home Feb. 20, 2023. She was the mother of […]
SANTA ANA, Calif.—A prosecutor said Thursday that a California man acted callously in pulling out his gun and firing a shot at a car traveling on the freeway, killing a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back in a booster seat. Marcus Eriz, who is now 26, sat in the courtroom during opening statements […]
NEW YORK—A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades. “I lost 14 years of my life for a crime that I didn’t commit,” Steven Ruffin told a Brooklyn judge after sighing […]
