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Cold Case Solved: CT Man Guilty Of Kidnapping, Killing Store Owner 15 Years Later Cold Case Solved: CT Man Guilty Of Kidnapping, Killing Store Owner 15 Years Later
Cold Case Solved: CT Man Guilty Of Kidnapping, Killing Store Owner 15 Years Later A Connecticut man has been convicted of a kidnapping and fatal shooting outside a Hartford business more than 15 years after the crime, authorities announced. Shawn Milner, 35, of Hartford, was found guilty on Jan. 29 of two counts of felony murder and one count of first-degree kidnapping, Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin said. Milner was accused of killing Waqas “Victor” Rehman, 42, of Farmington, in Hartford in 2010. Rehman owned The Smoker’s Stop on Barbour Street in Hartford. A witness told officers that they overheard someone yelling at Rehman, demanding money and telling him…
Red Cup Dooms Waldorf Murderer In Apartment Killing: Prosecutors Red Cup Dooms Waldorf Murderer In Apartment Killing: Prosecutors
Red Cup Dooms Waldorf Murderer In Apartment Killing: Prosecutors It was the red plastic cup that helped seal his fate. A Charles County jury found Jermaine Christopher Stringer, 39, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 killing of Arick Jordan Jackson in Waldorf, officials announced Friday, Sept. 19. Prosecutors say that on the night of Sept. 10, 2021, deputies from the Charles County Sheriff's Office were called to investigate reports of gunshots in an apartment breezeway in Waldorf. There, they found Jackson with a fatal gunshot wound in the back. Investigators later uncovered surveillance video showing Jackson speaking with Stringer before the s…
Dire Wolf Pups Double In Size, 'De-Extinction' Company Says: See Their Growth Dire Wolf Pups Double In Size, 'De-Extinction' Company Says: See Their Growth
Dire Wolf Pups Double In Size, 'De-Extinction' Company Says: See Their Growth Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first successful animal "de-extinction." Two male pups named Romulus and Remus are now more than 100 pounds at just eight months old and doubled in size, according to Colossal Biosciences. The genetics company gave an update on the popular wolves, saying they're showing signs of pack dynamics and ancient traits on a private Texas preserve. The dire wolf pups named after mythological figures in the city of Rome's origin story were born on Tuesday,…
Coast Guard Vet, OnlyFans Model Admits To Killing Man At National Park: DOJ Coast Guard Vet, OnlyFans Model Admits To Killing Man At National Park: DOJ
Coast Guard Vet, OnlyFans Model Admits To Killing Man At National Park: DOJ A Coast Guard veteran from Virginia admitted to luring an alleged rapist to a national park in Ohio before gunning him down, authorities announced this week. Chelsea Perkins, 35, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty to driving more than 300 miles across state lines after arranging to meet Matthew Dunmire at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Valley View, Ohio.  According to prosecutors, Perkins, who reportedly became an OnlyFans model, traveled in March 2021 to the national park, where she and Dunmire visited the Terra Vista Natural Study Area. There, she used a loaded fire…
Bones Found On Beaches ID’d As Shipwreck Captain, Case Cracked By Ramapo College Students Bones Found On Beaches ID’d As Shipwreck Captain, Case Cracked By Ramapo College Students
Bones Found On Beaches ID’d As Shipwreck Captain, Case Cracked By Ramapo College Students Skeletal remains that washed up on South Jersey beaches over nearly two decades have been identified as the captain of a 19th-century schooner, law enforcement announced. The remains, found between 1995 and 2013 in Atlantic and Cape May counties, were confirmed to belong to 29-year-old Henry Goodsell, who died in a shipwreck off the Brigantine coast in 1844. The identification was made by the New Jersey State Police in partnership with the Ramapo College of New Jersey Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center (IGG). A skull was first found in Longport in 1995. More bones turned up in Margate …
Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island
Army Veteran, Toddler Daughter ID'd As 1997 Murder Victims On Long Island An Army veteran single mother and her toddler daughter were publicly identified nearly three decades after they were murdered on Long Island. Tanya Denise Jackson, of Brooklyn, and her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes, were identified as the victims in the 1997 cold case killings that later became known as the "Peaches" homicides during a Nassau County Police press conference Wednesday, April 23.  Jackson's dismembered torso was discovered inside a plastic storage bin at Hempstead Lake State Park in June 1997. More of the 26-year-old's remains were found in April 2011…
DNA Trail Lands Killer Gunman In Prison After Shooting Claimed Life Of Bay Shore 26-Year-Old DNA Trail Lands Killer Gunman In Prison After Shooting Claimed Life Of Bay Shore 26-Year-Old
DNA Trail Lands Killer Gunman In Prison After Shooting Claimed Life Of Bay Shore 26-Year-Old A Brooklyn man could spend the rest of his life in prison for a 2020 shooting that killed a 26-year-old man. Basheer Vinson, 30, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday, April 2, following his conviction for murder in the shooting of Mark Birthwright, of Bay Shore. The shooting happened in the early hours of August 2, 2020, as a house party on Patton Avenue in Wyandanch was ending. Birthwright and a 30-year-old friend from Bellport were leaving the party when Birthwright accidentally dropped a large roll of cash on the ground. After picking it up, t…
Gilgo Beach Murders: New Netflix Docuseries Gives Voice To Victims, Families Gilgo Beach Murders: New Netflix Docuseries Gives Voice To Victims, Families
Gilgo Beach Murders: New Netflix Docuseries Gives Voice To Victims, Families A chilling new Netflix docuseries is shining a national spotlight on one of Long Island’s most disturbing mysteries. Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer premiered Monday, March 31, delivering a gripping three-part exploration of the unsolved murders that haunted the quiet beach community of Gilgo Beach for more than a decade. Directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus, the docuseries examines the decades-long search for justice through the eyes of the young women who vanished—and the families who refused to stop looking for them. The series traces the lives of…
Foot Found Near Delaware River ID'd As Missing Allentown Woman Thanks To NJ College Students Foot Found Near Delaware River ID'd As Missing Allentown Woman Thanks To NJ College Students
Foot Found Near Delaware River ID'd As Missing Allentown Woman Thanks To NJ College Students A foot found along the Delaware River in 2017 has finally been identified, thanks to student researchers at a New Jersey college. The remains belonged to Maria Quinones Garcia, who was 54 years old when she went missing from her home in Allentown, PA, in 2014, according to a release from the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center in Mahwah.  The students used a DNA profile created from bone remains found in Warren County, NJ, and traced the mystery back to Garcia using genetic genealogy. The foot — still in a sock and shoe — was discovered by a local resident…
Brooklyn Man Convicted Of Killing Man In Franklin Township, Dumping Body: Prosecutor Brooklyn Man Convicted Of Killing Man In Franklin Township, Dumping Body: Prosecutor
Brooklyn Man Convicted Of Killing Man In Franklin Township, Dumping Body: Prosecutor A 45-year-old Brooklyn man was convicted on Monday, March 3 of murdering a Franklin Township man and disposing of his body, authorities said. Daniel Matthews murdered Artis Timothy Young at Matthews' family residence during a robbery involving a large quantity of marijuana, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said. Young was found dead in Brooklyn on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, authorities said. Following the homicide, Matthews and Andrew Mumby transported Young’s remains in the trunk of Young’s vehicle to Brooklyn where Young’s body was discovered, authorities said.  Surveillance vi…
Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Suitland Mother Decades Later Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Suitland Mother Decades Later
Man Gets Life In Prison For 1979 Rape, Murder Of Suitland Mother Decades Later Justice has been served for a Maryland family more than four decades after Vickie Lynn Belk was abducted and murdered in Maryland. Last year, the Charles County Sheriff's Office announced that District resident Andre Taylor, now 63, was arrested on charges that included rape and murder in connection to Belk's death, who was found on Metropolitan Church Road near Route 227 after she was killed 45 years ago.  Vickie Lynn BelkCharles County Sheriff He was convicted in July by a jury after just two hours of deliberation following a nine-day trial. "This case occurred more tha…
Mother Of 4 Dead Babies Found In South Boston Freezer Will Not Face Charges, DA Decides Mother Of 4 Dead Babies Found In South Boston Freezer Will Not Face Charges, DA Decides
Mother Of 4 Dead Babies Found In South Boston Freezer Will Not Face Charges, DA Decides The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said it will not file charges against a woman who was found to have stashed the bodies of four of her babies inside her freezer in South Boston.  The bodies of two boys and two girls were found inside a shoebox, wrapped in tin foil, and stored in a freezer at an apartment at 838 East Broadway on November 17, 2022. After more than a year and a half long investigation, police have been unable to determine when they were born, when they died, or how long they had been frozen, DA Kevin Hayden said on Tuesday, April 30.  Hayden said he coul…
New Update: Human Remains Found In Hudson Valley Are Of Young Woman New Update: Human Remains Found In Hudson Valley Are Of Young Woman
New Update: Human Remains Found In Hudson Valley Are Of Young Woman Authorities have confirmed that human remains unearthed on a Hudson Valley construction site are of a young woman who may have been dead for over a decade.  The remains were found in Putnam County on Tuesday, April 16, during excavation work at the property of a new home built in Patterson in the area of Ice Pond Road, according to New York State Police. Earlier Report - Human Remains Found Near Ice Pond Road In Patterson The investigation into identifying the remains is still in its early stages, but so far, police have confirmed they are of a white female between 16 and 28 year…
DNA Helps Nab 20-Year-Old In Darien Car Theft Years Later, Police Say DNA Helps Nab 20-Year-Old In Darien Car Theft Years Later, Police Say
DNA Helps Nab 20-Year-Old In Darien Car Theft Years Later, Police Say A 20-year-old Waterbury man has been arrested more than two years after allegedly stealing a car in Fairfield County. Rahquel Cranford was apprehended Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Stamford Superior Court on an arrest warrant stemming from a car theft in Darien in September 2021, according to Darien Police. Officers were called on Sept. 9, 2021 for a stolen vehicle in Darien on Long Neck Point Road. The car was found later that day in Waterbury. As detectives were examining the vehicle for evidence, they got a DNA hit that was later confirmed as a match for Cranford, police said. A jud…
Marlborough Man's Trash Leads To His Conviction For 4 Rapes In 1984 Marlborough Man's Trash Leads To His Conviction For 4 Rapes In 1984
Marlborough Man's Trash Leads To His Conviction For 4 Rapes In 1984 A Marlborough man has been found guilty of four rapes and kidnappings in 1984 by garbage from his home used to connect his DNA found at the crime scenes. Michael Marion Sharpe, age 71, a former Hartford charter school CEO, was sentenced on Monday, Jan. 2 to 72 years in prison for felony charges related to the kidnappings and sexual assaults of four women in Connecticut dating back to 1984, said Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin. Sharpe’s conviction was the result of an extensive investigation by the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney’s Cold Case Unit that included the use of for…
DNA, Fingerprints From 1996 Led To Sexual Assault Arrest, Atlantic County Prosecutor Says DNA, Fingerprints From 1996 Led To Sexual Assault Arrest, Atlantic County Prosecutor Says
DNA, Fingerprints From 1996 Led To Sexual Assault Arrest, Atlantic County Prosecutor Says DNA and fingerprints dating back to 1996 and 2003 have led to an arrest in two sexual assault cases, authorities said. Brian Lee Avis, 59, has been indicted by an Atlantic County grand jury for the sexual assaults of a 10-year-old Brigantine girl in 1996, and a 5-year-old girl in Galloway Township in 2003, Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Cary Shill said, The eight-count indictment includes charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13, endangering and burglary, Shill said.  The charges against Avis came after Galloway Township Police Det. Sgt. …
CAUGHT! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ CAUGHT! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ
Caught! Driver Wanted In Road-Rage Death Of Off-Duty NYC Firefighter Nabbed In NJ Police captured a Brooklyn parolee wanted for questioning in the slaying of an off-duty city firefighter in a road-rage incident. U.S. Marshals and the NYPD took purported gang member Joseph Desmond and his girlfriend into custody after tracking them down at the Circle Motor Lodge in South Amboy -- where Routes 35 and 9 converge near the Garden State Parkway and the Raritan River. Desmond had been driving a 2006 silver Infiniti with the New York State license plate JEA-2402 when the confrontation with 33-year-old Faizel Coto occurred around 4:45 a.m. Sunday on the Belt Parkway near Bay 8th …