May 8—The family of a Deer Park murder victim rallied together Wednesday to see his killer sentenced to life in prison without parole. Seventeen members Richard Purdy’s family stared daggers at Gary Ault, 38, who showed no remorse and claimed innocence at his sentencing. “You made a choice in your life, and those have consequences,” […]
May 6—A former Decatur field officer with the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles was charged with eight counts of child abuse and booked into the Morgan County Jail on Monday. Joddie Brooke King, 47, of Town Creek, was charged by a grand jury with four counts of aggravated child abuse and four counts of […]
A man convicted of a May 2021 Topeka murder was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, with no chance for parole until he’s served 51 years, eight months. Shawnee County District Judge Cheryl Rios imposed that sentence upon Jeremy F. Volle, who was convicted in March of crimes that included first-degree murder linked to the […]
Warren Harris Jr. said he was sorry. He directed his remorse to the families of the three men he robbed and fatally stabbed when he was 16 and high on heroin in New Orleans. Sitting at a table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Harris, 63, talked in a video conference about the guilt that has […]
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho requested California Gov. Gavin Newsom this month to review the early prison release of an inmate who is serving a 90-year sentence for a series of freeway shootings in which bullets pierced victims’ car and grazed a woman’s leg. A Board of Parole Hearings panel April 10 granted parole […]
James Parker, a man who has spent more than half his life in prison for his role in the killing of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop in 2001, has been granted parole. Parker was just 16 when he and his 17-year-old friend Robert Tulloch fatally stabbed the two married professors, after planning for […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who has served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas was granted parole Thursday. James Parker was 16 when he was […]
Apr. 3—A convicted murderer who was accused of absconding from his parole after serving prison time was arrested during a recent law enforcement operation in Taos. Alfredo Sanchez, 39, was arrested March 19 at the Taos Valley Lodge after New Mexico State Police, Taos County sheriff’s deputies and Taos police acted on a tip he […]
Apr. 3—A convicted murderer who was accused of absconding from his parole after serving prison time was arrested during a recent law enforcement operation in Taos. Alfredo Sanchez, 39, was arrested March 19 at the Taos Valley Lodge after New Mexico State Police, Taos County sheriff’s deputies and Taos police acted on a tip he […]
Jurors in Lamb County on Wednesday found a 41-year-old man guilty of capital murder in the August 2019 slaying of his mother at her home in Levelland. Jeremy Atchison stood silently as District Judge Pat Phelan read aloud the verdict, which arrived after more than six and 1/2 hours of deliberation. Prosecutor Barron Slack last […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate’s minority leader proposed legislation Tuesday to overhaul Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Prisoner Review Board after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son. Republican Leader John Curran criticized Pritzker and said he plans legislation to […]
A man convicted of murder in Delaware was busted carrying a ghost gun and a bag full of crack when he tried to sneak into a Bronx subway station without paying, police said Friday. Jermaine Greene, 42, was trying to slip through an opened exit door into the Fordham Road station in University Heights about […]