A British man accused of killing a young girl was officially charged with murder during his first court appearance Monday. According to the Licolnite, Deividas Skebas, 22, is accused of killing 9-year-old Lilia Valutyte, a Lincolnshire girl found dead in July in Boston, Lincolnshire, with a single stab wound. Skebas, who appeared at the Lincoln …
A second man was arrested on Thursday in connection with May’s shooting death of a 14-year-old Florida girl. Tampa police linked Robert Creed Jr., 45, to the murder of Nilexia Alexander, whose body was found in a vacant lot. In early July, Ronny Walker, 44, was also arrested in connection with Alexander’s slaying — and …
A 16-year-old Michigan boy has been charged as an adult with the murder of a 13-year-old boy — over a cellphone. Detroit Police Chief James White said the cellphone in question may have been stolen several weeks earlier — it’s not clear if it was actually stolen — and on July 26, Ryan McLeod drove …
The man charged in a deadly stabbing spree during a Wisconsin river tubing venture on Saturday told officers after his arrest that he was “attacked” and “in self-defense mode” when he stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death and seriously injured four other people. Nicolae Miu, 52, made his first court appearance on Monday, when he …
A mother in Greece was detained earlier this year, charged with murder after her three children all passed away under suspicious circumstances. Daily Beast reports that Roula Pispirigkou, 33, is accused of killing her three daughters, including one who “survived childhood cancer.” Police say Pispirigkou suffocated her two youngest daughters and gave her oldest daughter …
A judge sent a fired Georgia college professor back to jail without bond on Monday to await trial on charges that he shot an 18-year-old incoming freshman to death while she sat in a car. Richard Sigman, who had been teaching at the University of West Georgia’s business department, lost his job on Saturday after …
A New Jersey jury returned a guilty verdict to a Sicklervilled mother of three who killed her 1-year-old son after, according to prosecutors, the child got in the way of her affair. According to the Camden Daily Voice, 44-year-old Heather Reynolds was convicted by a Camden County jury last week for murder, methamphetamine possession, and …
Despite a history of violence against women, Harvey — a transgender woman — was released from prison after a parole board agreed that she’d met the criteria for release. She promised never to offend again, but now she’s charged with brutally killing Susan Leyden, 68.
Tubing on Wisconsin’s Apple River remained shut down Sunday as detectives investigated a 52-year-old man’s fatal stabbing spree on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy was killed in the attack and four other people — three men and a woman, all in their 20s — were seriously injured. St Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said that formal …
A Florida woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for hiring hitmen to kill a prominent law professor, WCTV reports. On Friday, a judge in Tallahassee sentenced 37-year-old Katherine D. Magbanua to life in prison in connection with the July 2014 murder of Daniel Markel. Authorities alleged that Magbanua arranged the hit …
Update: 8:45 p.m.: St Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson said at least two victims were airlifted to Regions Hospital and the other were transported by ambulance. The 17-year-old was taken by ambulance to Lakeview Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to KMSP. Original story: A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and four others seriously hurt …
A University of West Georgia professor was fired after he was charged with the shooting death of a student early Saturday morning. Carollton Police said that Richard Sigman, a professor in the school’s business department, had been at Leopoldo’s Pizza at Adamson Square in Carrollton and got into an argument with another man. The man …
