Tag result for article published on Fri May 17 2013 10:10 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cincinnati, Cincinnati Police Department, conviction, homicide, shooting
A Cincinnati court convicted a man of murder after seeing video of the victim, two weeks before his death, blinking to identify the assailant. A jury found Ricardo Woods guilty of murder and felonious assault Thursday for the death of David Chandler, who was shot October 28, 2010, while sitting in a car in Cincinnati. [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed May 08 2013 7:52 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: gunshot, homicide, murder conviction, stabbing
An Arizona jury convicted Jodi Arias of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Jodi Arias, 32, was convicted on May 8, 2013 for the murder of Travis Alexander that occurred on June 4, 2008, at his home in Mesa, Arizona. His body was found by co-workers from Prepaid Legal Services who [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu May 02 2013 5:03 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: GSW, gunshot wound, homicide, homicide Wheeling, Wheeling Police Department
Wheeling police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:03 PM Wednesday man down after being shot in the Winetree Apartment Complex in the block of 400 Pleasant Run Drive Wheeling, IL. Rafael Orozco was found shot to death Wednesday night outside one of the apartment buildings in the Winetree Apartments complex in Wheeling. Investigators from the Wheeling [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri April 19 2013 3:54 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Boston Marathon bombing, homicide, manhunt, Terrorism
SECOND SHOOTOUT: 67 Franklin Street in Watertown. FIRST SHOOTOUT: Witnesses in Watertown, Massachusetts report hearing explosions and a gunbattle as police converged on the area. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents are on the scene (YouTube Michael Julakis/WCVB/CNN). UPDATE: Surviving Boston bomb suspect #2 identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass in [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri February 22 2013 11:12 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Bolingbrook, Bolingbrook Police Department, homicide, Will County
The former Bolingbrook, Illinois cop was sentenced to 38 years in jail for killing his wife Kathleen Savio in 2004. Drew Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in late October, 2007. She was last seen on October 28 (See The Cardinal Map fo Peterson Bolingbrook Home, Search Area for Stacy Peterson). The missing person brought [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat January 19 2013 7:07 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Algeria, assassination attempt, homicide, Kim Kardashian, news brief, Segue
Here’s the latest news for Saturday, January 19: Algeria: 32 militants, 23 hostages dead; Obama touts ‘giving back’; Hundreds join pro-gun rallies in state capitals; Turkish leader threatened with gun during speech. Autopsy Conducted on Body of Ill. Lottery Winner … Authorities on Friday exhumed the body Chicago man, Urooj Khan, who was poisoned with [...]
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Tag result for article published on Tue January 08 2013 6:10 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Medical Examiner, cyanide death, death, homicide
The sudden death of an Illinois lottery winner who was about to collect $425,000 in winnings has triggered a homicide investigation now that authorities have determined he died shortly after ingesting a lethal dose of cyanide. Urooj Khan was only 46 when he apparently died of cyanide poisoning. In November the Cook County medical examiner’s [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu November 01 2012 8:11 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: first-degree murder, homicide, homicide Naperville, murder
Naperville police responded about 10:18 PM Tuesday to a check for well-being call to a townhome in the 800 block of Quin Court. Responding officers located two juvenile victims of an apparent homicide at the location. Justin Plackowska, 7, and Olivia Dworakowski, 5, were found stabbed multiple times. A law enforcement source said that Justin’s [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri September 14 2012 6:07 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: 9-1-1 audio, homicide, New Jersey, workplace shooting
Employees at a New Jersey supermarket can be heard on 911 calls begging for police to send help as a gunman goes on a rampage. The calls from the Aug. 31 shooting at the Pathmark in Old Bridge were released Thursday. On August 31, 2012, two employees of the Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu September 06 2012 3:00 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Drew Peterson, homicide, homicide conviction, murder trial, Will County
Nick Savio (Kathleen Savio’s brother) says the ruling is “bittersweet” and Legal Defense Attorney declares there will be an appeal. The Drew Peterson was a case based mainly on second-hand hearsay evidence — but that didn’t keep a jury in Illinois today from convicting Drew Peterson of murder in the death of his third wife, [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed August 22 2012 5:27 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Cook County Sheriff, first degree murder charge, first-degree murder, homicide, Iowa, Iowa City
COOK COUNTY, IL… Cook County Sheriff’s Police took Brandon Brown, 27, of Lansing, IL, into custody Tuesday night on a warrant issued for a first degree murder charge out of Iowa City, Iowa in June. According to Iowa police officials, Brown allegedly was in a verbal argument with a victim who he then shot multiple [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon August 20 2012 6:35 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: homicide, homicide Palatine, Palatine Fire Department, Palatine Police Department
VIDEO: Arlington Heights and Palatine firefighter/paramedics transport a stabbing victim Corey Frazier to the hospital, and police immediately start investigation of the stabbing with portable lighting. Palatine police and firefighter/paramedics and Arlington Heights firefighter/paramedics responded about 8:58 p.m. Sunday to a report of a fight involving 20 people in an apartment courtyard at 730 East [...]
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