First Degree Murder

White, wealthy and pretty: a murder made for media

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The victim … Yeardley Love was a member of the University of Virginia lacrosse team. Photo: AP Yeardley Love's death is a perfect crime to capture America's imagination, writes Paul Farhi. In a famous essay about crime and the British press George Orwell identified the kinds of murder cases that excited the news media and [...]

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Minn. House Committee Says Yes To Arming Prosecutors

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Less than two months after a Minnesota prosecutor was shot by a defendant in a Grand Marais courthouse, a legislative committee advanced two bills designed to beef up security for county attorneys, including one that would let prosecutors carry guns. The star witness at Thursday's House public safety committee hearing [...]

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Jury Deliberates In Barona Teen Murder Trial

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EL CAJON, Calif. — Jury deliberations began Thursday in the trial of a young man accused in the fatal shooting of an El Capitan High School student whose body was found on the Barona Indian Reservation last fall. Stanley Virgil Lloyd Jr., 19, is charged with first-degree murder in October 2010 death of 17-year-old Christopher [...]

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Dawn Patrol: Quick hits as you head out the door

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Cops: 22-year-old stabbed his mother to death A 22-year-old McHenry County man has been charged with stabbing his mother to death inside their home near Johnsburg yesterday. Raymond E. Davis was charged with first-degree murder after police said he killed his mother, called 911 and waited for officers on the front porch. 58-year-old Carol Schritz [...]

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The Associated Press: Anthony sentence allows her to go free July 17

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Anthony sentence allows her to go free July 17 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony looked ready for freedom. For the first time since her trial began, she let her hair down, smiling and playing with it as she awaited the judge's decision on when she would be released. Then she turned stone-faced as the [...]

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Minnesota teen gets life sentence for killing store clerk

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A Minnesota teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of an Iowa convenience store clerk last fall. Michael Swanson, of St. Louis Park, Minn., was sentenced Thursday in Webster County for the Nov. 15, 2010 slaying of Sheila Myers at the Kum & Go store in Humboldt where Myers worked. [...]

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George Anthony's Suicide Letter Shown In Court

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The 23rd-floor courtroom fell silent as jurors, court spectators, members of the media, Casey Anthony and George Anthony himself were shown the suicide note he wrote to his wife, Cindy Anthony, in January 2009 in a Daytona Beach hotel room. READ: George's Suicide Letter The defense rested its case Thursday afternoon on [...]

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Anthony trial: lack of evidence or good defense?

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Closed captioning of: Casey Anthony verdict leaves nation stunned >>> good evening. as trials go, the casey anthony case blew up before our very eyes, becoming an ongoing obsession of the summer of 2011 . for whatever reason, millions of people followed the case of this young woman , who waited over a month to [...]

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Documents released in UK tourist killings in Fla.

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SARASOTA, Fla. — Anonymous tips led investigators to a suspect in the shooting deaths of two British tourists, and authorities found the same caliber of bullets used to kill the pair in the suspect's room, according to Sarasota County court documents released Tuesday. Shawn Tyson, 16, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder [...]

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Two charged after body found in Alton house fire

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ALTON, Ill. (AP) — Two men face felony charges in the case of a female acquaintance who authorities say was stabbed 20 times before her body was found in her burning southwestern Illinois mobile home. Madison County prosecutors on Tuesday charged 21-year-old Donald Phelps of Rockford, Iowa, with first-degree murder and residential arson. [...]

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US army officer's wife charged over kid's slayings

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TAMPA – when police responded to a call from a concerned relative and found Julie Schenecker on the back porch of her Tampa home, they said she was covered in blood and made a gut-wrenching admission: She had killed her teenage son and daughter because they were "mouthy." Police said the military officer's wife, described [...]