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29 November 2012 Last updated at 10:50 ET Nigel Brown, now 29, and Gary Taylor, 26, failed to have their convictions overturned Two men jailed for murdering schoolboy Thomas Devlin have failed in attempts to have their convictions overturned. The Court of Appeal rejected all grounds of challenge by Nigel Brown and Gary Taylor to being found guilty of the August 2005 stabbing. Their teenage victim's mother, Penny Holloway, said the verdict meant the streets were safer with the killers kept behind bars. She said the decision demonstrated that the judicial system had worked. "We have lost Thomas and he's never coming back, but nobody else is going to be killed by these two because they are still in prison," she said. Mrs Holloway's 15-year-old son was knifed to death near his north Belfast home while out buying sweets and drinks. Thomas suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest, abdomen, right upper arm, hip and face. His friend, Jonathan M...

Posted at 12:47 PM ET, 11/30/2012 Nov 30, 2012 05:47 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Fairfax County police are investigating a suspicious death in the 6000 block of Hydrangea Drive in Franconia, a spokesman said. No other details were immediately available. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

The homicide charges were withdrawn today against a man accused of using an AK-47 to fatally shoot another man at a New Year's Eve party in Arlington. The charges were withdrawn after a key witness failed to appear at a preliminary hearing for Dana Johnson, said Mike Manko, a spokesman for the Allegheny County district attorney's office. Mr. Johnson, 25, of Carrick was charged with homicide in connection with the death of 23-year-old Donald Russell of Bethel Park. Mr. Russell was shot about 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2011, during a party in the 300 block of Sterling Street. Witnesses told police that Mr. Johnson, armed with an AK-47, pulled a gun out of his jacket and began waving it in the air while another man, armed with a pistol, screamed racial slurs and said, "You know why we came here," according to an affidavit of probable cause. They also told police they saw Mr. Johnson and the other man confront Mr. Russell, who resisted their efforts to hand over ...

Posted at 03:02 PM ET, 11/30/2012 Nov 30, 2012 08:02 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Fairfax County police have made an arrest in a homicide that occurred Friday morning inside a Franconia town home Friday, a spokesman said. Police identified the suspect as Eric C. Kewder, 34. He is a roommate of the man who was killed, police said. Police said he was charged with murder. Officers responded to an emergency call in the 6000 block of Hydrangea Drive around 10:20 a.m., said Officer Bud Walker, a Fairfax County police spokesman. Officers found the body of an adult male inside the home, Walker said. Police did not immediately release the man's identity or the cause of his death. Pablo Alvizuri, a neighbor, said three roommates -- all men -- live in the home. He said he had not seen signs of trouble at the house in recent weeks. Police said they arrested Kweder around 2:30 p.m. within five miles of the town home. They said calls from the public helped lead them to Kwe...

CLIFTON – A murder mystery will hit the high school's newly upgraded auditorium this weekend when the student cast of Murder on the Orient Express takes the stage. STAFF PHOTOS/DEMITRIUS BALEVSKI Clifton High School drama teacher David Arts observing and directing the cast of 'Murder on the Orient Express.' Below, Arts watches as the high school actors run through a scene in the murder mystery penned by Agatha Christie. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, one of the mystery genre's masters, the Clifton High School production promises to pack a punch. Amidst a blizzard, the story begins as a world-renowned Orient Express train is stopped dead in its tracks due to an impassable snowdrift. By the following morning, one of the train's millionaire passengers is found dead in his compartment with his door locked from the inside. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot is charged with deducing which of the dead man's 12 enemies aboa...

Police are investigating a homicide that occurred overnight in Monte Sereno following a reported break-in of a home in an upscale neighborhood. Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police responded to a 911 call at 1:36 a.m. from an address in the 18000 block of Withey Road, located west of Highway 9, and located a male homicide victim inside the home, according to Sgt. Kerry Harris. The woman who made the 911 call to police said someone had broken into her home and ransacked the place, Harris said. When the suspects left, she was able to dial 911 for help. When police arrived, they found the victim inside the home. The woman was taken to a hospital with non life-threatening injuries, police said. Police are not releasing the names of the victim. That information will be available once the Santa Clara County Coroner has made official notification to the victim's family, police said. Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Sgt. Mike D'Antonio of the Los Gat...

A mother has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her baby daughter, who died after being left inside a hot car last year. Michelle Nguyen, 21, of Glenroy has admitted to causing the death of 10-month-old Thy Tran. The baby was left asleep inside a hot car in the driveway on a day in November when the temperature reached 28 degrees Celsius. The Supreme Court heard the temperature inside the car reached 47C and the doors and windows were all closed. A few hours later the baby was found unconscious and paramedics were unable to revive her. The court heard Nguyen had fallen asleep in front of the television. The court was also told that Nguyen had left the baby in the car on several other occasions and had been warned not to by a neighbour. Nguyen has pleaded guilty to manslaughter by committing an unlawful and dangerous act. The crime carries a maximum 20 years jail term. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

A study led by Michigan State University's April Zeoli found that homicide spreads through a community like infectious disease. Credit: Michigan State University Homicide moves through a city in a process similar to infectious disease, according to a new study that may give police a new tool in tracking and ultimately preventing murders. Using Newark, N.J., as a pilot case, a team of Michigan State University researchers led by April Zeoli successfully applied public health tracking methods to the city's 2,366 homicides between 1982 and 2008. They found the killings were not randomly located but instead followed a pattern, evolving from the city's center and moving southward and westward over time. Like a flu bug that spreads to susceptible groups such as children and the elderly, homicide clusters in Newark – often fueled by gangs and guns – spread to areas consisting largely of poor and minority residents. Over time, the concentration of homicides effectively disappea...

For the first time in his first degree homicide trial, jurors, along with the community that continues to stand behind him, heard from Jeffrey Pyne , the former high school valedictorian who is accused of bludgeoning his mother to death in the family's garage. Pyne, a former star athlete and University of Michigan biology student, is accused of the homicide of his mentally ill mother Ruth Pyne , 51, who was viciously beaten and stabbed 16 times in the family's Highland Township, Mich., garage in May 2011. On Wednesday the court first heard from Jeffrey Pyne, 22, viewing tapes of interviews with Pyne taken by police after his mother's homicide. "Someone killed your mom. It's not an accident," Detective Sargeant David Hendrix is heard saying on the tape, as Pyne is seen putting his hands over his face. When Hendrix asks Pyne if he did anything that day to hurt his mom, Pyne says, "No … no." Friends and neighbors in the tightly-knit Highl...

SALINAS, Calif. — A Salinas homicide victim donated his organs this week at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to help save the life of another, family members said. Devante Nicolas Arias, 19, was washing his white Honda outside a friend's house on the 1000 block of Garner Ave. on Friday when two men walked up and shot him in the head, police Officer Miguel Cabrera said. Emergency responders said Arias was conscious and breathing when they arrived, and the teen was airlifted in a helicopter to a trauma center. Arias was placed on life support and pronounced deceased on Sunday. The teenager's family members said Arias donated his organs Tuesday night. "He was truly a good kid. He was hard-working and he had a very good heart," Arias' aunt said. "His pride was that little white Honda that he bought. He would spend hours cleaning his car and that's just what he was doing the day he was shot." "He donated his organs so that someone else...

SALINAS, Calif. — A Salinas homicide victim donated his organs this week at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to help save the life of another, family members said. Devante Nicolas Arias, 19, was washing his white Honda outside a friend's house on the 1000 block of Garner Ave. on Friday when two men walked up and shot him in the head, police officer Miguel Cabrera said. Emergency responders said Arias was conscious and breathing when they arrived, and the teen was airlifted in a helicopter to a trauma center. Arias was placed on life support and pronounced deceased on Sunday. The teenager's family members said Arias donated his organs Tuesday night. "He was truly a good kid. He was hard working and he had a very good heart," Arias' aunt said. "His pride was that little white Honda that he bought. He would spend hours cleaning his car and that's just what he was doing the day he was shot." "He donated his organs so that someone else...

BP agreed to pay the largest criminal fine ever brought against a single corporation; the U.S. government in turn agrees not to press more charges against the oil company responsible for the 2006 oil spill. NBC's Pete Williams reports. By NBC News staff and wire services Two former BP employees were charged Wednesday with murder in the 2010 Gulf spill disaster, while BP itself was blocked from bidding for U.S. government contracts until it shows it no longer lacks "business integrity". BP responded by saying it was working with the Obama administration to do just that.  Gerald Herbert / AP Robert Kaluza, a BP well site leader from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, talks with his attorneys outside court on Wednesday in New Orleans, La. In New Orleans, a BP rig supervisor said he is innocent of murder in the deaths of 11 workers in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig that started the spill disaster. "I thin...

Robert Sciarrino / AP Amy Locane-Bovenizer is taken into custody after her conviction for vehicular homicide. By Josh Grossberg, E! Online Sadly, this is not a fictional TV drama for Amy Locane-Bovenizer. It's her life. The former "Melrose Place" star was found guilty on Tuesday of vehicular homicide and assault by auto resulting from a fatal June 2010 DUI crash in Montgomery Township, NJ. Per New Jersey's Star Ledger, the 40-year-old Locane was acquitted of the more serious charge of aggravated manslaughter when her 2007 Chevy Tahoe struck a 2010 Mercury Milan as it was turning into a driveway. The collision killed a 60-year-old female passenger, Helene Seeman, and seriously injured her husband, Fred Seeman. Court papers later showed that the actress admitted to police that she had drank several glasses of wine before getting behind the wheel. Not only that: Before she hit the Seemans, she had already rear-ended a car a few miles from the accide...

The Cedar City man who police say beat his girlfriend to death has been charged with murder. Kerry Lynn Richardson, 50, is charged in 5th District Court with murder, a first degree felony, along with possession of a controlled substance, a third degree felony, and use or possession of drug paraphernalia, a class B misdemeanor. The morning of Sept. 9, Cedar City police officers went to a home at 1597 N. Cedar Blvd., and found 47-year-old Tracy Ellen Little lying amid a bloody scene in the bedroom. According to a probable cause statement filed in 5th District Court, the walls, ceiling, floor, bedding and clothing in the bedroom and the floors, walls and ceiling of the adjoining bathroom were covered in blood. Little had suffered multiple head and face fractures and was flown to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, the probable cause statement shows. She died 10 days later. Richardson was originally charged with aggravated assault, a second degree felony, but prosecutor...

A man wanted on homicide charges in Pittsburgh was apprehended by U.S. Marhsals in Tuscon, Ariz. today after remaining on the lam for nearly two years. Jarrell A. Liddell, 33, faces charges of homicide, criminal attempt homicide, aggravated assault and gun violations in connection with the Jan. 16, 2011, killing of Ronald Washington in the Hill District. Pittsburgh police said Mr. Washington and his friend, Chanel Hopkins, 20, left a friend's house in the 200 block of Lombard Street about 2:15 a.m. on Jan. 16. Shortly after they entered their vehicle, police said, two men approached them. One of them, identified by police as Mr. Liddell, fired multiple rounds into the car. Mr. Washington was struck in the chest; Ms. Hopkins suffered gunshot wounds throughout her body, police said, but her injuries were not life-threatening. The U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force, which includes local and federal law enforcement, tracked down Mr. Liddell to Arizona, whe...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A man wanted in a manslaughter in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood nearly one year ago has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Arizona. Jarrell Anthony Liddell, 33, was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon while leaving a Tucson gas station, police said. Liddell was wanted in the Jan. 16 shooting death of Ronald Washington on Lombard Street in the Hill District. According to police, Liddell walked up to Washington while he was sitting in a car and shot him multiple times. A second person also suffered arm and leg wounds, police said. Liddell was charged with criminal manslaughter, criminal attempt manslaughter, carrying a firearm without a license, felon in possession of a firearm and aggravated assault. He was also wanted on an arrest warrant for an armed robbery at a business. Liddell is being held in the Pima County Jail while awaiting extradition to Pittsburgh. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A local worker was killed Wednesday when he fell from his ladder inside Terry Concert Hall at Jacksonville University. According to JSO Homicide Detectives, the victim was trying to repair a broken window 25 feet in the air. The victim works for Duval Glass and Mirror.  According to the company's website, they have been providing window services in North Florida for more than 20 years.  Classes that were scheduled inside Terry Concert Hall have been moved next door to Swisher Theater.  No classes were underway during the accident.  But, a few co-workers did witness the fall. The incident is under investigation.  Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

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The family of a Jefferson County man found shot to death this weekend is pleading for the public's help in getting answers in his death. David Deroncey wife found him in his SUV late Sunday night on I-65 in Birmingham.  Police believe he may have been involved in some sort of confrontation at a gas station before getting on the interstate. His wife asked for someone to come forward saying she and the rest of his family just want closure. Verna Chapman, his grandmother said, "I just, I'm hurting right now, and I want people to know how bad this hurts - when you lose somebody you love so much for no reason, no reason what so ever.  It was just a senseless, senseless murder. And if anybody knows anything please come forward." If you know anything about the case you are encouraged to call Birmingham police.  You can remain anonymous. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

A man has been charged with the murder of a university graduate whose body was found in a burning car. Tadevsz Dyytryszyn, 38, will appear before magistrates in Bristol on Wednesday accused of killing Catherine Wells-Burr, 23. Miss Wells-Burr was discovered in her red Ford Focus near Ilminster, Somerset in September by firefighters. Avon and Somerset Police said Miss Wells-Burr's boyfriend Rafal Piotr Nowak, 31, and his former partner Anna Julia Lagwinowicz, 32, who have both been remanded in custody accused of conspiracy to murder, would also be charged with her murder. A police spokeswoman said: "Detectives investigating the murder of Catherine Wells-Burr have today charged a second man with her murder. "Following Catherine's death in September, Tadevsz Dyytryszyn, aged 38, was arrested and released on police bail. "Investigations have continued since, and this weekend he was further arrested by officers, and this afternoon was charged with her ...

A high-pitched sob brought to an end a history-making third trial for twice-acquitted Sydney jeweller, and now convicted killer, Philip Leung. The 51-year-old let out a shriek minutes after a Supreme Court jury on Wednesday found him guilty of the manslaughter of his gay partner Mario Guzzetti at their Alexandria home on April 7, 2007. "This is just wrong," Leung said as he handed his bag, glasses, jewellery and tie to his lawyers and was taken into custody after years of being free on bail. It is understood to be the first time in the state's history that a person has been tried three times for the same crime. He had already been acquitted twice - in 2009 and 2011 - after the two judges at his previous trials directed the juries to enter not guilty verdicts based on a lack of evidence. But the Court of Criminal Appeal on both occasions ordered retrials following successful appeals by the prosecution. This was allowed under NSW's revised double jeopard...

Darran Simon, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 1:01 PM Two weeks ago, the names of 350 homicide victims in Camden and Philadelphia were read in the chronological order of their deaths this year over a loudspeaker between classes at St. Joseph's Preparatory School in North Philadelphia. It took most of the day. After school the next day, students at the Jesuit high school held a prayer service and erected hundreds of commemorative crosses on the lawn. And on Nov. 21, Our Lady of Good Counsel, a Roman Catholic church in Moorestown - where there have been four homicides in 40 years - planted 60 crosses on the church's lawn in memory of the victims in Camden, a city beset by violence. The crosses in South Jersey and Philadelphia are placed in solidarity with the Camden antiviolence group Stop Trauma on People (STOP), which began putting up crosses in October in front of Camden City Hall. Many of those involved are driven by religiou...

Facebook Google buzz Del.icio.us Digg Reddit Newsvine Buzz up! Fark it - A A A + Written by Holly Pennebaker ATHENS, Ga. -- The Athens Police Department is investigating a homicide and burglary case, while searching for suspects involved. According to police, officers arrived to a burglary in progress just before midnight on Monday night at 400 Jefferson River Road. Finding forced entry into the home, police found Edward Davidson, 76, deceased from a gunshot wound. His wife, Charlotte Davidson was not injured. Police are investigating this case, and continue to look for suspects. Anyone with information on the incident, or suspects responsible is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at (706) 613-3342, Sgt. Jeff Clark at (706) 613-3888 ext. 319, or Detective Charles Ivey at (706) 613-3888 ext. 377. A reward of up to $ 1,000 may be offered for information leading to an arrest. Read More @ Source...