Jan. 25—A Thursday hearing for Toby Madden, who is accused of stabbing his longtime girlfriend to death in October 2022, has been cancelled while court officials search for a new defense attorney — the sixth to represent the defendant. Madden’s trial that was set to begin Jan. 22 in Butler County Common Pleas Court was […]
Joliet police have arrested the girlfriend of a man suspected to have killed eight people Sunday and charged her with obstructing justice in the investigation of the shooting, which officials said cast a “reign of terror” over the southwestern suburb earlier this week. Police said Wednesday night that Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, shared a 3-year-old son […]
Jan. 24—A man who reportedly fired a shot at his girlfriend Monday night in a Wright State University dormitory has been charged. Darryl Marshawn Patterson, 21, is facing one count of felonious assault, according to Fairborn Municipal Court records. Seth Bauguess, director of the university’s office of communications, said police are working with the Greene […]
Was he taking the ACT? Thought copying someone else’s test answers was extreme? A 26-year-old man named Angrez Singh has been arrested after allegedly masquerading as his girlfriend so he could take an exam in her stead, as seen in photos blowing up online. “He tried to enter the examination hall by changing his appearance,” […]
A tearful plea from the girlfriend of a Tumwater cab driver who was murdered, his body left at Southcenter Mall. How she says you can help track down his killer. The 34-year-old Tumwater man was driving a Redi-Cab overnight last Sunday. His body was found the next day. His killer remains on the loose. Whoever killed him, […]
A doctor from the Atlanta area tried hiring a hitman on the dark web to kill his girlfriend, federal officials said. Now, James Wan has been sentenced to seven years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia announced in a Jan. 18 news release. The 54-year-old from Duluth spent more […]
One of the four people killed in a hot air balloon crash in the Arizona desert over the weekend texted his longtime girlfriend to tell her “goodbye” in the moments before impact, according to local station KTVU. Chayton Wiescholek, 28, was one of 13 people aboard the balloon on Sunday, according to the Eloy Police […]
Shania Laneice Turner. A Texas woman has been arrested and charged with allegedly murdering her 18-year-old girlfriend. According to a statement released Friday by the Houston Police Department, Shania Laneice Turner is believed to have been in a relationship Tierra Horn when she was reported missing Jan. 4. Police discovered Horn’s body near a Texas […]
Two people died in an apparent murder-suicide near Central Avenue and Union Hills Drive on Sunday, Phoenix police said. Officers went to a home for a domestic violence call at about 8:45 a.m. on Sunday after receiving reports that a man had killed his girlfriend and was attempting to kill himself, Phoenix police said in […]
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole, more than a decade after he shot his girlfriend in a Valentine’s Day killing that shattered the reputation of a sports superstar. The Department of Corrections gave no more details of Pistorius’ release on Friday. The announcement came at about 8.30am local time, […]
South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was released on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend in a crime that shocked a nation long inured to violence against women. Pistorius – dubbed “Blade Runner” for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs – shot 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp dead through a locked bathroom door […]
A former rock musician has been arrested on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his missing girlfriend after human remains were found in a wooded area in California, police said. Theobald “Theo” Lengyel, 54, was taken into custody Tuesday in connection with the homicide of his girlfriend Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, 61, who […]