Tag: killings

Prosecution: Woman Planned the Killings of Her 3 Children

PLYMOUTH, Mass.—A Massachusetts woman used exercise bands to strangle her three children in the family home in a well-planned assault while her husband was out for about 20 minutes picking up medicine at a pharmacy and takeout, a prosecutor said at her arraignment Tuesday. Not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Lindsay Clancy, 32,…


Alex Murdaugh Goes on Trial in 2021 Killings of Wife, Son

As his life unraveled over the past two years, disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh didn’t fight giving up his law license and said he made plenty of mistakes tied to missing client money and a financial mess that led to 100 criminal charges. But he has adamantly insisted, from the moment he found the…


Death Penalty Sought for Man Charged in Nebraska Killings

Prosecutors in northeastern Nebraska will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the killings of four people last summer in the small town of Laurel. Assistant Nebraska Attorney General Corey O’Brien filed notice on Tuesday of aggravating circumstances that would justify a death sentence for Jason Jones, 42, if he’s convicted. Jones is…


West Virginia Teen Get Life for 4 Relatives’ Killings

CHARLESTON, W.Va.—A West Virginia teenager was sentenced in adult court Tuesday to life in prison in the killings of four family members. Gavin Smith, 18, of Elkview received three life sentences in Kanawha County Circuit Court on first-degree murder convictions in the December 2020 deaths of his mother, stepfather, and 12-year-old brother. He also was…


8 Pakistanis, 1 Afghan Soldier Killed in Cross-Border Clash

QUETTA, Pakistan—Cross-border shelling and gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed eight Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier on Sunday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, with each side accusing the other of starting the fighting. The Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons including artillery/mortar…


US Terror Alerts Ignoring Terrorist Attacks in Nigeria’s ‘Breadbasket’

JOS, Nigeria—U.S. officials in Nigeria have been criticized for ignoring a rash of armed attacks in central Benue state that have displaced thousands of local farmers and threatened American citizens in the country. The state is widely acclaimed as the “breadbasket” of Africa’s most populous nation. But its productivity is slowly being strangled by radicalized terror…


Police Arrest Suspect in Serial Killings in Stockton, California

STOCKTON, Calif.—A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, police said. Investigators began watching the suspect after receiving tips and stopped him in a car at about 2 a.m. in the…


California Man Charged in Family’s Kidnapping, Slaying

MERCED, Calif.—Prosecutors on Monday charged a California man in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents, and uncle. Jesus Salgado is accused of kidnapping the family at gunpoint from their trucking business on Oct. 3. Authorities say Salgado, a former employee with a longstanding dispute, likely killed them within an hour. Their…


Texas Man Detained in 4 California Killings From Decades Ago

LOS ANGELES—A man has been arrested in Texas in connection with the Southern California slayings of four women decades ago, police said. Billy Ray Richardson, 76, was arrested on Thursday by detectives from the Los Angeles and suburban Inglewood police departments with the assistance of officers from Fort Worth, Texas, police. Richardson was charged by…


Luis Echeverria, Mexico Leader Blamed for Massacres, Dies

MEXICO CITY—Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who tried to cast himself as a progressive world leader but was blamed for some of Mexico’s worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100. Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed the death Saturday on his Twitter account and sent condolences to…