All tagged attempted murder
Massimo Marenghi, 56, who unknowingly hired an undercover FBI agent to kill his wife, has pleaded guilty. Marenghi entered the plea on Thursday, March 16, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 8, according to a release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Massachusetts.
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.
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 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.
Just after midnight on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, deputies were dispatched to a 14-year-old girl’s home in Springfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan. Once they arrived on the scene, they found the young girl on the floor, bleeding from multiple stab wounds, according to Click On Detroit.
Timothy Ryan Shipman, 42, of California, was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly tried to drown his 2-year-old daughter in a pond.
Bracey Byrd, 33, of Wilson, North Carolina, was arrested on September 30 and charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and various counts of child abuse after she allegedly castrated her stepson.
A 12-year-old Texas girl has been accused of shooting her 38-year-old father last Tuesday evening before turning the gun on herself. Both survived, and now investigators are alleging the girl and a friend reportedly plotted to kill both of their families and pets before running away to Georgia together.
Ten people have been killed and 18 injured in a stabbing spree on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon in Saskatchewan. The two suspects, Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson, are still at large.
37-year-old Rubi (or Ruby) Anguiano Salazar and 34-year-old Raymundo Hernandez were charged yesterday for the “brutal and callous” murder of 69-year-old Gerold Lipeles earlier this year.
The young boy, unnamed in the press, is recovering in the hospital. The gunman has not been apprehended, but police have been given a lead by an eyewitness.
Around 12:24PM on Wednesday, a 2016 Silver Lexus Sedan is believed to have driven up to the intersection of Park Heights and Shirley avenues before two or more of its occupants opened fire. No motive is known, and the Baltimore Police are seeking information.
October 2002 heralded a three-week murder spree that would terrorize citizens across the Washington Metropolitan Area. However, the Beltway snipers had already claimed several victims earlier that year, and accumulated a body count that neared 20 before they were apprehended.
Police are actively searching for the shooter, who killed one man and seriously wounded two women before fleeing the hotel room.
Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado took the law into their own hands in 2012, hunting down and murdering Calvin Sneed, who’d allegedly pimped their teenage daughter. There’s a reason the legal system upholds the principle of ‘innocent until guilty,’ but the fantasy of the hero vigilante is hard to shake.
A 23 year-old petty officer second-class, George Dodson, has allegedly admitted to killing his wife with a hammer and knife, and to lighting his house on fire in an attempt to kill his one year-old son.
Two years after an attack left her unresponsive, Wanda Palmer was able to name her attacker. Jackson County police arrested Daniel Palmer on Friday for the attempted murder of his sister.
20-year-old Malik Patt and 44-year-old Jason Payne were arrested last Friday for their suspected series of armed robberies and shootings on July 11th. Patt could face the death penalty after trial.
Police investigation of the murder-suicide on Sunday revealed that the dispute had arisen over a Boca Raton vacation home, which the killer had not been invited to.
A woman doused a man in gasoline and then lit him on fire after an argument in a Sanger, California park last Thursday night. Fifteen miles outside of Fresno, the Sanger Police Department has video of the events that played out that night which will be strong evidence in the upcoming cases.
