Marine helps police capture man who offered him money to kill ex-girlfriend for dating a black man: Cops
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‘She stated that the only thing Mr. Cote hates more than a black man was a white woman who is with a black man’
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October 24, 2017
Argument over money leads son to rape 63-year-old mother and break her neck: Prosecutors
Prosecutors say it was an argument over money that led an Ohio man to assault his mother earlier this year in a brutal attack that included rape and an array of physical injuries. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported the 46-year-old defendant’s trial began this week with opening statements delivered Tuesday in a Hamilton County court. Police …
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October 23, 2017
‘Mom’ allegedly throws baby from 6th floor balcony, killing him: Police
The 23-year-old woman has been charged with murder
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October 22, 2017
Mother-daughter-son crime spree likely fueled by mutual crack habit: Cops
Three members of a New York family were arrested in connection with a string of robberies police say could have been motivated by their common dependence on narcotics. According to Newsday, 55-year-old Deborah Salvatore and her two children, Lauren Mascia, 31, and Rick Mascia, 25, were in police custody Sunday after their arraignment. Police believe …
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October 21, 2017
Lost hikers found in embrace at bottom of mountain had gunshot wounds
Two Joshua Tree hikers found dead with their arms around each other both died of gunshot wounds, CNN reports. Though initial reports were interpreted to suggest that the couple died accidentally, authorities now believe the man killed the woman and himself in a murder-suicide. Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbes0, 22, of Orange County, California, …
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October 21, 2017
‘Mom’ kills 3-year-old daughter amid divorce from high-powered CEO: Police
The woman who police believe murdered her 3-year-old daughter in England on Thursday had just recently split from her executive husband, The Sun reports. Claire Colebourn, 35, was arrested earlier this week in connection with the child’s death. Police and emergency crews descended on the family’s home in the U.K. Thursday night responding to a …
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October 19, 2017
Man kills wife by stuffing sock in her mouth, makes their child call 911: Cops
South Dakota authorities are pursuing charges against a man suspected of killing his wife at her home this week. According to KDLT, police say they found 36-year-old Marie Brinker dead at her home in Mitchell Thursday evening after her 39-year-old husband, James, convinced one of the couple’s children to call 911 to report her death. …
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October 19, 2017
‘American Horror Story’ inspired teen to kill her grandfather: Police
A woman admitted at a pretrial hearing in court on Wednesday that she killed her grandfather when she was 19, after the popular television show, American Horror Story, inspired her. New York Post reports that Brittany Jane Dwyer, 20, appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of her grandfather, Robert Whitwell, 81. …
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October 17, 2017
‘God made him do it’: New Orleans father accused of brutally killing toddler daughter
A Louisiana man allegedly confessed to the brutal murder of his toddler Tuesday morning, telling police that “God made him do it.” According to New Orleans Police Supt. Michael Harrison, police received a call from the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Mark Hambrick, from his Bywater residence in which he admitted to stabbing and suffocating his …
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October 17, 2017
‘Mom’ kills babies by burning them alive in oven, shows video to their father: Police
At Atlanta mother is accused of killing her two young children by burning them alive in the oven. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lamora Williams, 24, was charged with deaths of the children, 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn, after they were found dead Friday with burns on their bodies. The earlier reports indicated that …
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October 15, 2017
Woman hides newborn in garbage beneath bloody paper towels
A Florida woman is accused of child abuse after she allegedly stuck her newborn daughter in a garbage can and covered the infant with bloody paper towels, the Sun Sentinel reports. Rubi Ramirez, 25, of Fort Lauderdale, was in a hospital for abdominal pain when her mother found her in a bathroom bleeding and called …
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October 14, 2017
Man shoots mother over argument about his drinking: Cops
An Alabama grand jury indicted a man police say shot his mother earlier this year during an argument. According to the Florence Times Daily, 40-year-old Lee Allen Martin Jr. was arrested and charged with attempted murder after his mother was shot once in the leg in February. If convicted of the felony, he could face …
