Turkish girl likely victim of ‘honor killing’
A 16-year-old Turkish girl found dead in a hole last December was probably buried alive, judging by the amounts of soil in her lungs and stomach, authorities claim, the BBC reports. Medine Memi may...
View ArticleDead man suspected in 1972 murder
A dead Boston man has been named as the prime suspect of a 1972 murder in Boston’s Back Bay, local police reported Wednesday. Michael Sumpter died of cancer in 2001 while serving a 15- to 20-year...
View ArticleTwo arrested in Worcester homicide
Two men have been arrested in Worcester in connection with an August 24 fatal shooting. William Madison, 23, and Cassie Ago, 24, were issued after a Worcester County grand jury indicted them for...
View ArticleCity stunned after toddler killed in quadruple fatal shooting in Mattapan
In Boston’s worst multiple-murder in at least half a decade, four people, including a 2 or 3-year-old toddler, were gunned down on Woolson Street in Mattapan early Tuesday morning. The shooting...
View ArticlePair indicted for Jaewon Martin murder
Two men have been indicted for the May 8 shooting death of a 14-year-old honor’s student. Timothy “Toolman” Hearns, of Dorchester, and Ramon “Double R” Silvelo-Miles, both 20, face murder charges for...
View ArticleFatal shooting in Revere
State and local police are investigating a fatal shooting Wednesday night in Revere. Police responded shortly after 7 p.m. The victim, identified only as a man in his 20s, was killed on Reservoir...
View ArticleJury Finds Steven Hayes guilty in horrific Connecticut triple murder
Steven Hayes, 47, was found guilty Tuesday in the deadly home invasion that left a woman and her two daughters brutalized and murdered. According to ABC News, the jury deliberated for several hours...
View ArticleChezulu guilty in 1984 Roxbury murder
After less than a day of deliberations, a Suffolk County jury found Sultan Omar Chezulu, formerly known as Robert Louis Scott, 62, guilty of first-degree murder for the 1984 homicide of Elsie...
View ArticleChukwuezi sentenced to life for Soheil Turner murder
In their first day of deliberations, jurors found Xzeniyeju Chukwuezi guilty of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm on Tuesday. He was then sentenced to life in prison without the...
View ArticleArrest made in girl’s 2007 slaying
SAN DIEGO — San Diego police have rearrested a man suspected in the killing of 14-year-old Ahlyja Pinson in 2007. Antero Cruz, 23, was booked Thursday night on a murder warrant, with bail set at $1...
View ArticleICE catches international murder suspect in Miami, who re-entered the US...
MIAMI — Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents on Wednesday arrested Pedro Antonio Martinez Escobar a.k.a. Pedro A. Martinez, 37, who is wanted in Honduras for murder. Martinez Escobar was...
View ArticleTrio indicted in Hyde Park deliverman’s slaying
Three young people were indicted Tuesday by a Suffolk County Grand Jury, charged with first-degree murder in the brutal slaying of 58-year-old pizza deliveryman Richel Nova in Hyde Park. The...
View ArticleHayes gets death sentence for Cheshire massacre
Convicted murderer Steven Hayes was sentenced to death on Monday for the horrific home invasion of a Cheshire, Conn. home that left three people dead. Hayes was convicted last month in the strangling...
View ArticleCheslea husband arrested after wife found dead
A 50-year-old Chelsea woman was found dead in her driveway early Tuesday morning, and her husband has been arrested for beating her, police said. A passerby found Theresa Wilkes lying in the driveway...
View ArticleProvidence man arrested in fatal June Attleboro home invasion
A Providence man was arrested there Tuesday morning and charged with murder, home invasion and armed robbery in the June attack on an Attleboro home, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for Bristol...
View ArticleArrest made in Sunday’s fatal stabbing in Everett
A 20-year-old Everett man was arrested Tuesday, charged with fatally stabbing another man on Main Street, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone and Everett Police Chief Steven Mazzie said. Jamar...
View ArticleSpader guilty in New Hampshire home invasion killing
Steven Spader, 19, was found guilty Tuesday of murdering a woman and maiming her 11-year-old daughter in secluded Mont Vernon, N.H. last year. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before...
View ArticleHusband charged in death of wife in New Hampshire, son also murdered
An Auburn, N.H. man has been charged with murder after his wife and son were found dead in their home earlier this week. Christopher Smeltzer, 37, was charged with second-degree murder after police...
View ArticleAutopsy can’t determine cause of death in horrific Milton homicide
MILTON — The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy Tuesday on the body of a young man found butchered on an upscale street. But officials, even with results in hand, still don’t...
View ArticleMan killed in Worcester
Worcester police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old local man, found dead in Crompton Park, near I-290, Sunday morning. According to Worcester Police Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst, the body of...
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