For years in Salt Lake County, February 9th was a date fraught with nervous anticipation. After the slaying of 6-months-pregnant Sonia Mejia in 2006 and Damiana Castillo in 2008, a dedicated police task force patrolled the area in hopes of preventing a repeat killing in the years that followed. Today, concerned Utahns eagerly await the trial that could bring about a conviction 17 years in the making.
Luz Hernandez’s body was found on Wednesday, Feb. 7 after the kindergarten teacher from New Jersey didn’t show up for work the day before.
Peter Manfredonia, 26, pleaded guilty to murder and other charges on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. CBS News reports the former University of Connecticut student was charged with killing a man and severely wounding another with a Samurai sword in 2020.
Paul Gadd, also known famously as Gary Glitter, was released early from prison after serving half of a sixteen year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s, according to People.
Carlos Lugo, 14, was last seen on Jan. 21, 2023, after his mother, Rosa Lugo, dropped him off at a friend’s house. According to People, the teenager was reported missing on Jan. 23, 2023. His body was found in a field on Feb. 4, 2023.
Telenovela star Pablo Lyle, 36, has been sentenced to five years in prison for issuing a deadly punch during a road rage confrontation in Miami back in 2019.
According to CBS News, two abducted children, 12 and 11, who had been missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a central Florida Winn-Dixie Supermarket. They were found with their non-custodial mother, Kristi Nicole Gilley, 36, who was taken into police custody.
John Musbach, 31, is facing up to 10 years in prison for attempting to hire a hitman to murder a teen he feared would expose his explicit images and videos.
On May 8th, 2008, 18-year-old Joshua Maddux told his sister, Kate, that he was going for a walk alone in the woods. . However, as hours passed and Joshua still hadn't returned home, his family began to feel a sliver of worry. His father eventually reported the young man missing. Seven years later, the body of Joshua Maddux was found in a chimney only two blocks away from his family’s home.
On the morning of November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood’s body was found floating in the water of Catalina Island’s Blue Cavern Point, where her death was ruled an accidental drowning, however it was widely known that Wood was terrified of sea water, and the night she drowned, she and her husband Robert Wagner had allegedly been arguing.
According to People, Wilmington Police Department believes KC Johnson, 27, a missing transgender woman was killed by a man she met on social media. The man allegedly robbed and threatened her with a hammer as well. Police believe that Johnson was killed on Friday, Jan.13, 2023. She was reported missing the following day.
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According to People, Viktroia Nasyrova, a Brooklyn woman, allegedly tried to murder her lookalike friend by giving her cheesecake that was laced with a deadly poison so she could steal her identity.
Alana Sims, 22, was found dead next to her car on Jan 30, 2023, shortly after 10 p.m., according to Fox News. Her 23-month-old son was discovered sleeping in the car next to her body. Sims’ son was unharmed and is now in the care of her family. It was also revealed that the victim was five months pregnant.
A nationwide manhunt is underway for an Oregon man accused of brutally assaulting and kidnapping a woman he was in a prior relationship with.
On Jan. 29, 2023, William Busick, 55, killed his wife Chastity Busick, 48, and her 23-year-old daughter Jasmine Bailey, and later turned the gun on himself. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. and in front of a child, who authorities stated was unharmed.
On January 2, Dharmesh Patel drove his wife and two kids off of Devil’s Slide, a cliff in California that’s roughly 250 feet tall.
According to People, Keylin Yolibeth Chavez-Dominguez, 20, was last seen by her family and friends on Dec. 30, 2022, around 6 p.m. in her apartment. She was reported missing on Jan. 2, 2023. The search for Chavez-Dominguez has come to a tragic end nearly a month after her disappearance after authorities found her body in a park.
Lindsay Clancy has been charged with two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to Fox News.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine and largely hidden in party drugs like cocaine. The drug has swept across the United States in recent years, especially in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to WPR, more than 500 drug-related deaths in Milwaukee County were tied to fentanyl.
