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Bomb Squad at Home of Alps Murder Victim

Neighbors around Saad al-Hilli's home evacuated

(Newser) - Neighbors of Saad al-Hilli , who was killed along with his wife and mother-in-law in the French Alps last week, were evacuated today as an Army bomb squad descended on the $1.6 million home in England, Reuters reports. Police cordoned off a wider area around the house and released a...

France Murder Victim Clashed With 'Control Freak' Brother

Bludgeoned daughter emerges from coma

(Newser) - A new detail in this week's multiple murder in the French Alps: Saad al-Hilli, who was gunned down with his wife and mother, had written a letter calling his brother a "control freak" who should be wiped "out of my life." Saad and brother Zaid clashed...

French Murder Victims Each Shot Twice in the Head

Husband worked on secret defense contract

(Newser) - A multiple murder in France is looking more like a planned killing than a robbery gone wrong—because each of the four victims received two bullets to the head among their other gunshot wounds, the Guardian reports. "I cannot say if the killer or killers were professional; all...

Did Family Feud Lead to Grisly Alps Massacre?

Brother eyed, but he's already gone to police to attest to his innocence

(Newser) - The plot is thickening around the horrific massacre of a British family in the French Alps. Police say the killings bear the hallmark of a professional assassination—and they are questioning the brother of one of the victims. "It seems that there was a dispute between the two brothers...

Drew Peterson Guilty in 3rd Wife's Murder

Ex-cop killed Kathleen Savio: jury

(Newser) - After five years of headlines, the Drew Peterson murder case has come to a verdict: The former Chicago-area police officer is guilty of killing Kathleen Savio, his third wife, the jury says. His maximum sentence would be 60 years. It's a victory for a prosecution that based its arguments...

Girl Hid for 8 Hours Under Bodies in Alps Killing Spree

At least 4 shot to death in a forest: officials

(Newser) - A horrific story out of the French Alps: Four adults were found shot to death in or near a BMW yesterday, and beneath the legs of a dead woman cowered a 4-year-old, terrified but alive. She apparently spent some eight hours tucked beneath the body of her mother and next...

Teen 'Facebook Killer' Gets Year in Prison

Jinhau K found to have 'a serious behavioral disorder'

(Newser) - A Dutch teenager was found guilty today of fatally stabbing a 15-year-old girl and trying to murder her father over a dispute that first heated up on Facebook, Dutch News reports. Jinhau K, 15, will serve a year in juvenile detention and three more in a psychiatric institution for murdering...

'Pussy Riot' Graffiti Was Killer's Trick: Russian Cops

Message on wall meant to confuse police

(Newser) - Police have detained a man who has confessed to killing two women in a central Russian city and scrawling a message at the murder scene demanding freedom for jailed members of Pussy Riot, investigators say. The graffiti, however, was merely an attempt to mislead police, they say. The man—a...

Death Penalty Sought for Assassination Plotters

For December murders of Michael Roark, girlfriend Tiffany York

(Newser) - Prosecutors are aiming for the death penalty in the case of three soldiers accused of murdering an ex-private and his girlfriend to keep the lid on their plot to overthrow Fort Stewart and kill President Obama, the New York Times reports. Isaac Aguigui, Christopher Salmon, and Anthony Peden will face...

UVa Lacrosse Player Gets 23 Years for Murder

George Huguely killed girlfriend Yeardley Love in 2010

(Newser) - A former college lacrosse player was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for the alcohol-fueled beating death of his ex-girlfriend. George W. Huguely V was sentenced for the slaying of 22-year-old Yeardley Love , who was found face down in her blood-soaked pillow on May 3, 2010. Authorities said the...

'Free Pussy Riot' Scrawled Next to Murdered Women

Was 'presumably' written in blood, says Russian investigators

(Newser) - The bodies of two murdered women were found beneath a scrawled message demanding freedom for jailed members of Pussy Riot, Russian officials said today. The women, aged 76 and 38, were killed late last week in their apartment in the central city of Kazan with the words "Free Pussy...

Levi Aron Gets 40 Years for Murder of Brooklyn Boy, 8

Aron's plea avoided life without parole in killing of Leiby Kletzky

(Newser) - A 37-year-old Brooklyn man got 40 years to life today for kidnapping, murdering, and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who got lost on his way home from religious day camp, reports the AP . Levi Aron had previously pleaded guilty in the death of Leiby Kletzky to avoid a trial and the...

Obama Assassination Plot: Relative Went to Police

Death of Isaac Aguigui's wife raised her suspicions

(Newser) - More details are trickling out about Isaac Aguigui, the purported leader of a group allegedly planning to overthrow the government and assassinate the president: In September of last year, a female relative of his told police she had concerns about the soldier. Specifically, that his wife had died that July...

France Opens Arafat Murder Investigation

Widow asks for inquiry over poisoning report

(Newser) - France has opened a murder investigation into the death of Yasir Arafat, at the request of his widow, Suha Arafat, sources tell the AFP . The move follows reports that Arafat, who died in Paris in 2004, was poisoned to death with radioactive polonium. A Swiss radiology lab said last week...

Teens Charged in Death of NY Girl, 5

Isabella was last seen with 16-year-old neighbor

(Newser) - Two teenage boys have been arrested in the death of a 5-year-old Niagara Falls girl whose body was found in a garbage can. Isabella Tenant disappeared from her great-grandmother's home, where she was staying overnight. She was last seen alive with a 16-year-old neighbor and family friend, John Freeman,...

US Soldiers Planned Obama Assassination: Prosecutors

4 troops plotted to overthrow government: report

(Newser) - Four US soldiers planned to overthrow the federal government and kill President Obama, the Press Association reports. The alleged plot, whose details remain scarce, emerged during a murder case against the soldiers. One of the four, Pfc. Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and gang charges today in the deaths...

How US Open Ref, 70, Became Murder Suspect

Lois Goodman's husband was about to be cremated when...

(Newser) - When US Open tennis referee Lois Goodman called police to her California condo in April, she said she had returned home to find her husband in bed, dead. There was blood throughout the house, a bloody coffee mug in pieces on the floor, and his head was wounded. But 70-year-old...

Half of Women's Killers Get Away in Mexico State

Its former governor: the next Mexican president

(Newser) - During Enrique Pena Nieto's six-year governorship, some 1,003 women were killed in Mexico state, home to 15 million—and half those crimes were unsolved, most hardly investigated, according to a watchdog's report. As Pena Nieto prepares to be Mexico's next president, activists are beginning to speak...

NJ Mom Decapitates Toddler Son
NJ Mom Decapitates
Toddler Son
Aug 23, 2012 12:01 AM CDT

NJ Mom Decapitates Toddler Son

Chevonne Thomas recently regained custody of the boy

(Newser) - A New Jersey mother killed herself after decapitating her 2-year-old son just months after child welfare workers returned the boy to her. Chevonne Thomas lost her son, Zahree, after she was charged with child endangerment. But in spring she regained custody of the boy, whose head was discovered by police...

US Open Ref, 70, Accused of Killing Hubby With a Mug

Lois Ann Goodman arrested in NYC

(Newser) - Drama at the US Open: Police arrested one of the tennis referees at her Manhattan hotel yesterday, charging her with the April murder of her husband at their California home. Lois Ann Goodman was in New York to work the tournament, and authorities say they would have arrested her at...

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