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Man Admits Killing Couple Lured by Craigslist Car Ad

Ronnie Towns sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 2015 Georgia murders

(Newser) - A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a Georgia couple found fatally shot nearly a decade ago after being lured to a rural county by a false offer to sell them a classic car. Ronnie "Jay" Towns pleaded guilty Monday in Telfair County Superior Court to two counts of malice...

Trial Kicks Off for Laken Riley's Alleged Killer

Jose Ibarra is accused of murdering Georgia nursing student in February

(Newser) - Opening statements are expected Friday in the trial of a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student, in a case that helped fan the immigration debate during the last election cycle. Jose Ibarra is charged with murder and other crimes in the February killing of Laken Hope Riley, whose...

Charles Manson Admits More Murders in Unearthed Calls

Peacock docuseries to air audio in which Manson claims to have killed in Mexico

(Newser) - Charles Manson, the cult leader behind a string of murders in California in the late 1960s, claimed to have killed others in the years prior, according to never-before-released audio. A new Peacock docuseries takes from more than 100 hours of prison phone calls with the cult leader recorded over 20...

Fingers Pointed After Man Who Served 16 Years Is Cleared

Minnesota police, prosecutors ignored evidence indicating Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was innocent

(Newser) - A Minnesota man was released from prison after serving 16 years for a murder he did not commit, a local prosecutor announced Tuesday, per the AP . Jurors in 2009 found Edgar Barrientos-Quintana guilty of killing 18-year-old Jesse Mickelson in a drive-by shooting. He was sentenced to life in prison without...

'Heroic and Loyal' Dog Helps Solve Owner's Murder

Labradoodle refused to leave site where owner's body was 'burned beyond recognition'

(Newser) - Texas woman Mandy Rose Reynolds was murdered by a very bad man, prosecutors say—but her very good dog helped them catch the killer. The dog, a labradoodle named Titan, was found at the site in Robinson, Texas, where Reynolds' body was found "burned beyond recognition" in April last...

Alleged Killer Who Faked Death Arrested at Hospital

Police say Nicholas Hamlett claimed to have fallen off cliff while running from bear

(Newser) - A fugitive suspected of killing a man in Tennessee and trying to cover it up with a story about a cliff and a bear has been apprehended in South Carolina. Police say Nicholas Hamlett, 45, called 911 on Oct. 18 and claimed he had been injured in a fall from...

Dutch Cops Set Up Hologram of Murdered Teen Sex Worker

Police use high-tech visualization in Amsterdam's Red Light District to try to solve Betty Szabo cold case

(Newser) - Dutch police are getting creative, and high tech, in their search for the killer of a 19-year-old sex worker stabbed to death 15 years ago. The Guardian reports that authorities are now displaying a life-size hologram of Bernadett "Betty" Szabo in the windows of a corner house in Amsterdam'...

Allen Found Guilty in Delphi Murders

Indiana man could get up to 130 years for 2017 killings of two teenage girls

(Newser) - A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike. Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty in the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and...

Judge Fatally Shot, Wife Charged With Murder

Police found body of Michael Valentine outside his home in Albion, Illinois, on Tuesday

(Newser) - A notice from all the judges of Illinois' 2nd Judicial Circuit Court announcing the death of colleague Michael J. Valentine noted they were "shocked and deeply saddened" by his sudden passing. On Friday, the person police say is responsible for killing him, his wife Megan Valentine, made a court...

Alleged Killer's Big Mistake: He Forgot His Beer Can

Police say DNA ties suspect Daren Abbey to brutal Montana murder of Dustin Kjersem

(Newser) - A murder victim in Montana offered his killer a beer—and the killer made the mistake of leaving the can behind, say police. The details stem from the investigation into the brutal murder of 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem at his campsite in remote Montana, reports NPR . Police say Kjersem set up...

Murder Was So Vicious, a Bear Was Initially Blamed

Suspect is in custody in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, 35, in remote Montana

(Newser) - Authorities in Montana have a suspect in a campsite murder so vicious that a bear was initially blamed, reports ABC News . The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office did not identify the suspect, but said the person is in custody on unrelated charges and is cooperating in the murder investigation. In...

Man Pleads Guilty to Crime That Horrified Memphis

Cleotha Abston kidnapped, murdered kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher in 2022

(Newser) - A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping a Memphis school teacher while she was on an early morning run and then killing her. Cleotha Abston entered guilty pleas to first-degree murder and especially aggravated kidnapping in the abduction and death of Eliza Fletcher. Abston, 40, had been set to...

Jury Convicts Woman Who Zipped Boyfriend Into Suitcase

Florida prosecutors say Sarah Boone left Jorge Torres Jr. to die

(Newser) - A Florida jury has convicted a woman accused of zipping her boyfriend into a suitcase in 2020, where he eventually suffocated. Sarah Boone was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the death of Jorge Torres Jr., WESH reports. Defense lawyers argued that Boone suffers from "battered spouse syndrome"...

Mom Charged in Newborn's Murder, 30 Years Later

Pamela Ferreyra identified as the mother of Baby Garin, found dead in California in 1994

(Newser) - Thirty years after the discovery of a newborn baby's body at a dumpsite in California, the mother has been found and charged, police say. Pamela Ferreyra, 60, arrested Thursday at her home in Watsonville, just six miles from where the body was discovered, faces one count of murder in...

A Year After Vanishing, Body of French Teen Found

Suspect in Lina Delsarte killing died by suicide in July, investigators say

(Newser) - A vehicle flagged months into the search for a French teenager who disappeared last September had been stolen by her kidnapper, police said Wednesday, announcing both the teen and her attacker are dead. The body of the girl, IDed by Elle as Lina Delsarte, 15, was found Wednesday in a...

Ex-Official Who Killed Journalist Gets the Maximum

Robert Telles will serve at least 28 years for murder of Las Vegas investigative reporter

(Newser) - A former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office two years ago and exposed an intimate relationship with a female coworker. A judge invoked sentencing...

Cops: Photojournalist Was Killed on Trail by His Own Son

19-year-old has been arrested, charged with murder in California

(Newser) - Police say an award-winning British war photographer was killed on a southern California trail by his own son. Paul Lowe, variously reported as 60 or 61, was a photojournalist and professor at University of the Arts London who had documented the war in Bosnia. He was found dead of a...

Lawyer: Momeni Killed Cash App Founder in Self-Defense

Prosecutors call alleged killer of Bob Lee an 'overprotective, wannabe tough guy'

(Newser) - "Ladies and gentlemen, you are sitting in court with a murderer," Assistant District Attorney Omid Talai told the jury on the first day of the trial of the man accused of killing tech mogul Bob Lee. "Seated behind me is an individual and a coward who stabbed...

50 Years Later, Ex-Stasi Officer Is Sentenced

Unnamed 80-year-old gets 10 years for shooting a Polish national in then-divided Germany

(Newser) - An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago. The Berlin state court said in its ruling that there was no...

Man Charged in Murder That Enraged India's Doctors

He's accused of the August rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata

(Newser) - Protests erupted in cities across India following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in the hospital where she worked. Now, a man arrested in the case has been charged. CNN reports the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged a civic volunteer with the Kolkata police with rape...

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