Dec 17, 2008 -
Nearly 30 years after the 6-year-old son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh was decapitated, Florida police have found the murderer.
Police determined Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died more than a decade ago, killed Adam. Toole had actually confessed to the killing twice but later recanted.
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Sep 01, 2008 -
Ashley Ellerin was a 22-year-old fashion student, model and Ashton Kutcher’s girlfriend when she was brutally stabbed to death in her Hollywood Hills home in 2001.
On the night of her murder, Kutcher stopped by to pick Ellerin up for a post-Grammy Awards party, but she didn’t answer the door. The actor checked a back window and saw what he thought were red wine stains on the carpet and left.
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May 07, 2009 -
Peterson indicted on murder charge in wife's death
The Associated Press
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 7:47 PM
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. -- Authorities say former Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his third wife.
The Will County state's attorney's office says the indictment was issued Thursday in the death of Kathleen Savio.
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Oct 21, 2008 -
Skylar Deleon, a former child actor on TV's Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, was convicted in an Orange County, Calif., courtroom Monday of three counts of first-degree murder, including the deaths of a couple he tied to an anchor and threw off their yacht.
Deleon, 29, was convicted of killing Prescott, Ariz., couple Tom Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, who were last seen on Nov. 15, 2004, after departing on a test run to sell their 55-ft.
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Feb 05, 2009 -
Fla. doctor investigated in badly botched abortion
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Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr.
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Aug 14, 2008 -
Actor Shelley Malil — who played Haziz, Steve Carell's electronics store coworker in The 40-Year-Old Virgin — has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in the stabbing of his girlfriend.
Malil, 43, is being held on $10 million bond after Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett deemed him a potential flight risk during his arraignment Wednesday.
If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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Jun 21, 2008 -
Five years after Christina Mae Watson died while scuba diving on her honeymoon, authorities in Australia now believe she was murdered – and they've charged her husband with the crime.
David Gabriel Watson, 31, of Birmingham, Ala., faces possible extradition to Australia, where the coroner issued the murder indictment Friday after an investigation spanning months. If convicted of murder, the maximum penalty is life in prison.
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Jun 03, 2008 -
Daniel Radcliffe will attend the funeral of his murdered co-star Robert Knox.
The 18-year-old, who won the role of Marcus Belby in the forthcoming film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, died from multiple stab wounds following an altercation in Kent, England last month.
Knox’s family have revealed the movie’s stars will attend the funeral.
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Apr 22, 2009 -
TOWSON, Md. – A father shoots his wife and three children to death and then kills himself. A few days later and about 40 miles away, a family of four turns up dead in a hotel room in another apparent murder-suicide.
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Dec 23, 2008 -
A jury's decision on Monday to clear a former actor on The Sopranos of killing a New York City policeman during a bungled 2005 burglary has left the victim's sister outraged.
"What message is this sending out to the New York City police officers today? It's wrong," Yolanda Rosa Nazario, sister of the slain officer, said of the verdict handed actor Lillo Brancato Jr., the Associated Press reports.
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