May 5—Dear Wayne and Wanda, I’m kinda stuck in a tight spot with my girl. She’s got this summer all mapped out with like five trips out of Alaska, and she’s dead set on dragging me along for the ride. We’re talking three weddings, a big family gathering with all her siblings and their significant […]
A woman is suspected of killing her boyfriend with a pellet rifle during an argument Wednesday night. Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a shooting at a home in Graham off 252nd Street East and 52nd Avenue East at 6:35 p.m. They arrived to find a 51-year-old man dead outside. The deputies were told […]
A man is accused of staging his girlfriend’s death as a suicide after a medical examiner said her injuries weren’t consistent with how she was found dead. Gregory Shinn, 48, was booked in Pinellas County jail April 30 and charged with first-degree premeditated murder, according to case records. McClatchy News reached out to Shinn’s attorney […]
Apr. 29—WILKES-BARRE — A Foster Township man admitted Monday he fatally shot his girlfriend, Jessica Romano, during an argument inside their shared residence in January 2023. Scott Andrew Oliver, 31, apologized for killing Romano, 35, during what Luzerne County Assistant District Attorney James L. McMonagle called a “senseless act of violence” involving a firearm. “I […]
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 53-year-old Milton man Sunday after he allegedly beat and hogtied his girlfriend and kept her in the garage. Deputies arrested Jeffrey Holley for kidnapping, battery, domestic violence battery, larceny, obstruction of justice, resisting an officer and burglary. A neighbor called law enforcement to conduct a welfare check for […]
Amber Rodriguez was “terrified” in the weeks before she died and had been granted an order of protection against Elias Huizar, her ex-husband, who was accused of fatally shooting her outside the elementary school where she worked on the day his teenage girlfriend was found dead in Washington state. Rodriguez filed for divorce from Huizar […]
Washington authorities are searching for an “armed and dangerous” former school resource officer who is accused of killing his ex-wife and 17-year-old girlfriend and abducting the 1-year-old son he shared with his girlfriend. Elias Huizar, 39, is accused of fatally shooting his ex-wife, Amber Marie Rodriguez, outside William Wiley Elementary School in West Richland around […]
A man drove his girlfriend’s body around town before turning himself in at a South Miami-Dade police department Sunday morning, according to investigators. After riding around for a while, Alexander Roque, 48, finally stopped at Florida City’s city hall, located at 404 W Palm Dr., where he surrendered at the nearby police department. Jail records […]
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced on Friday that a serial offender was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2020 murder of his girlfriend at a Tempe motel. Gary Lenall Cox, aged 60, received a sentence for first-degree murder in the “violent” killing of his girlfriend at the Super 8 motel near Rural Road and […]
A Texas man has been sentenced to prison after authorities say he committed several crimes out of anger. Raymond David Phillips, 32, pleaded guilty to arson, assault and animal crushing, according to an April 12 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. The charges stem from an incident on […]
Apr. 17—Arab police on Saturday rescued a Decatur teen who sent a text to 911 after he was allegedly kidnapped, handcuffed and taken to Arab by two men who said they were bringing him to his girlfriend to work out their relationship, according to the Arab Police Department. “I’ve been here 24 years, and this […]
Last week — on the state’s third attempt after a pair of mistrials — a jury determined that Robert Holton II was guilty of the ghastly murder of a woman who spurned his advances. Wednesday morning, they began deliberating on whether the former day laborer and football coach should spend the rest of his life […]