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Man Goes to Imperial Beach Sheriff's Substation, Confesses to Killing Wife
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Imperial Beach, CA: A 59-year-old man was in custody Thursday after confessing to stabbing his wife to death in the parking lot of the sheriff's Imperial Beach substation, authorities said. Marvin Dennis Duncan was arrested Wednesday and booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of one count of murder in the death of Rocio Duncan, 36, according to San Diego County sheriff's Lt. Glenn Giannantonio. » more at CBS8.com
Police Search for Man Charged With Killing Ex-Girlfriend Inside O'Fallon Home
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
O'Fallon, MO: Police are searching for a 63-year-old man accused of killing an ex-girlfriend inside his home in O’Fallon, Mo. Tuesday night. Terry Culberson was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Authorities said officers were called for a well-being check to Culberson’s home in the 30 block of Downing around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. Upon their arrival, police found 55-year-old Dorothy Hall dead with multiple gunshot wounds. » more at KMOV TV
Victims Mother Says Murder Could Have Been Prevented
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Pikesville, MD: We're hearing from the mother of a woman who was stabbed to death in front of two children this week in Baltimore County. The victim's mother and Baltimore County Police agree that they knew the man who has now been charged in connection with that murder was a threat. They don't agree on whether everything possible was done to stop it. Members of Katie Hadel's family say Katie and her daughter Ava were inseparable. “She really worked hard to be a good mom and she was a good mom,” said Marc Binkley, Hadel’s mother’s fiancé. But in December, Jeffrey Shiflett was released from prison after serving time for robbery. » more at ABC2News.com
Army Captain, Fiancee Killed in Murder-Suicide Identified
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Columbus, GA: A Fort Benning soldier accused of shooting his girlfriend at American Storage Rental Spaces before turning the gun on himself Tuesday had been in the military more than four years and never deployed, a post spokeswoman said Wednesday. Authorities identified the Army captain as Gonzalo Raphael Garcia, 38, of California and the woman as Victoria Andrea Jacquez, 27, of Las Cruces, N.M. Both died of a gunshot wound to the head in what police called a murder-suicide at 3560 Victory Drive. » more at Ledger-Enquirer
Man Arrested in Connection With Gruesome Killing at T.C. Jester Park
Monday, February 4, 2013
Houston, TX: Houston police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with the grisly killing of a woman at a city park in northwest Houston. Melissa Chavez’s body was found around 3 a.m. Monday at T.C. Jester Park located in the 4200 block of T.C. Jester. Her killing was captured on video by a surveillance camera mounted on a nearby home, providing investigators with graphic details. » more at KHOU TV
Old Bridge Woman's Killing Shocks Quiet Neighborhood
Monday, February 4, 2013
Old Bridge, NJ: Neighbors said Leslaw and Barbara Pabian moved into their Nottingham Drive home in August and kept to themselves. None of their neighbors even knew their names. But those neighbors were shocked yesterday to learn that Barbara Pabian, 53, was stabbed to death in the home sometime Monday night and her 53-year-old husband, Leslaw, was charged in her murder. » more at nj.com
Autopsies Reveal Details in Johns Creek Deaths
Monday, February 4, 2013
Johns Creek, GA: The two boys killed in their apartment Monday were stabbed or cut, their mother suffered a fatal blow to the head and their father hanged himself. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office on Tuesday identified the victims of an apparent murder-suicide in Johns Creek as: Sindiver Grover, 52, his wife, Damanjit Kaur-Grover, 47, and their sons, 12-year-old Sartaj Grover and Gurtej Grover, 5. » more at Atlanta Journal Constitution
Irving Police Believe Marital Problems Escalated Into Murder-Suicide
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Irving, TX : Irving police say marital problems appear to be the cause of a couple’s murder-suicide Sunday, after the husband first dropped their 5-year-old daughter off with a neighbor before walking back home and killing the child’s mother and himself. Police identified the dead man as Luke Sy Dinh, 44, and his wife as Ha Thi Nguyen, 27. » more at Dallas News
Couple Reported Threats Hours Before Being Killed, Police Say
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Las Vegas, NV: Two hours before Danielle Woods and Donnie Cobb were found shot to death Sunday in their Paradise Road apartment, Woods had told Metro Police her former boyfriend had threatened her and her boyfriend and told them he’d be back, an arrest report says. Keith Junior Barlow, 57, Las Vegas is in custody and on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of prohibited person in possession of a firearm, battery domestic violence and illegal use/possession of a stun gun. » more at Las Vegas Sun
Investigators: Man Who Stabbed Wife More Than 100 Times Says He 'Just Lost It'
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Houston, TX: A Houston man charged in the fatal stabbing of his wife appeared in a Harris County courthouse overnight. Investigators said Lawrence Clinton Chambers, 40, viciously stabbed 43-year-old Jemal Lockridge Chambers more than 100 times. He's also accused of beating his stepson with a frying pan. Chambers is charged with murder and injury to a child. » more at KHOU TV
Baltimore Woman Fatally Shot in Face in Domestic Dispute
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Baltimore, MD: A woman was fatally shot in the face during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend at her West Baltimore home on Sunday, shortly after the Super Bowl began, according to Baltimore Police. Police responded to the 1600 block of McKean Avenue in the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood about 7 p.m. for a report of a shooting and found Rockelle Harper, whose age police could not immediately provide, badly wounded, said Detective Vernon Davis. » more at Baltimore Sun
Alcoa Police Probe Apparent Double Homicide, Suicide
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Alcoa, TN: The Alcoa Police Department is investigating the shooting deaths of three people in an apparent double homicide and suicide Sunday night on Maple Street in Alcoa. Investigators said the victims included a mother and son and the mother’s apparent boyfriend. Amos Louis Turbyfill Jr., 47, 813 Maple St., Alcoa, is thought to have killed Stacy Lynn Wade, 39, and her son, Joshua J. Demetri, 18, and then turned the gun on himself. » more at The Daily Times
KCK Blaze That Killed Two Called Murder
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Kansas City, KS: Residents streamed from a burning apartment building early Saturday morning as Kansas City, Kan., firefighters rushed inside. Searching through smoky chaos, they found the limp body of a critically injured little girl and the lifeless body of a young woman. Tuesday, authorities blamed an arsonist for the deaths of both. Prosecutors said that Curtis T. Horn, 37, killed his 34-year-old girlfriend, Brandi Johnson, before setting the fire that took 2-year-old Amiyah McClenton from her family weeks before her third birthday. » more at KansasCity.com
Three Dead in Murphys Double Murder, Suicide
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Murphys, CA: Calaveras County residents responded with shock and grief Sunday as they learned that a Little League coach, author and former airline pilot had shot his two teenage children to death and then turned the gun on himself at their home in one of the region's most exclusive neighborhoods. The Calaveras County Sheriff's Office reported Sunday that deputies who arrived at the home on Sandalwood Drive in the Forest Meadows neighborhood of Murphys found Phillip Marshall, 54, dead in a pool of blood inside the front door. His children, Alex Marshall, 17, and Macaila Marshall, 14, were dead on a couch. » more at RecordNet.com
Man Strangles 2 Sons, Kills Self in Boynton Beach
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Boynton Beach, FL: A father in the midst of a divorce strangled his two youngest sons early Saturday morning and then told their mother he would spare her so she would have to suffer their loss. Isidro Zavala, 45, then shot himself — first in the chest and then in the head. Zavala and sons Eduardo, 12, and Mario, 11, died at the scene. Victoria Zavala, 36, then called police to their home at 431 S.W. Eighth Avenue, saying her husband had killed their children. » more at Palm Beach Post
Names of Slain Erwin Family, Alleged Shooter Released
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Erwin, TN: The names of the three victims and alleged shooter in an apparent triple homicide-suicide that occurred early Saturday morning at the Town Acres apartments in Erwin have been released. On Monday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation identified the three victims as as Bridget N. Hughes, 39, Whitney Hughes 12, and Austin Hughes, 11. The alleged shooter was identified as Herbert Clyde Hughes Jr., 47. » more at Johnson City Press
Husband Charged With Murder
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Bassett, VA: David Leon Mitchell, 64, of 224 Bittersweet Drive in Bassett, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, according to Henry County Sheriff’s Capt. Eric Winn. Linda Sue Mitchell, 57, of the same address, died Thursday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., two days after she was found in her home with what Sheriff Lane Perry said was an apparent gunshot wound to the head. » more at Martinsville Bulletin
St. Paul: Woman Charged With Running Over Boyfriend, Killing Him
Thursday, January 31, 2013
St. Paul, MN: Before Mark Urang's girlfriend ran him down with her car, he called 911 for help, saying he'd been hit by a vehicle and was fighting with the suspects, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Feb. 1. What happened next was caught on the 911 recording: An argument and a short scuffle between Urang and another person. Urang, 50, was heard saying he was going to stand in front of the car, then it sounded as if he was run over. » more at TwinCities.com
Woman Found Dead in Northwest Charlotte Home Had History Involving Domestic Incidents
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Charlotte, NC: Professionals from across the country will wrap up a second day of training designed to improve the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases. This is just one day after the bodies of Derrick Teasley and Shakendra Covington were found inside a home on Winchester Street in northwest Charlotte in what police describe as a possible domestic case. » more at WSOC TV
