All tagged femicide
A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of a growing movement, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), which stands for all the voices that have not been heard by media, society, and the government. It stands for the oppression and untold stories of Native women who we have lost and keep losing.
After a months-long trial in New South Wales, Australia, 74-year-old Chris Dawson was found guilty today of his wife’s murder. Dawson had been charged in 2018, but the prevalence of only circumstantial evidence and the fact that Lynette Dawson’s body was never found impeded investigation.
Femicide is a global tragedy, but we still don’t know enough about it in the United States. Here are the three facts about American femicide.
Charged with the first-degree murder of his pregnant girlfriend using a firearm, 27-year-old Emmanuel Dewayne Coble faces a bond hearing today. The family of 20-year-old Raquiah Paulette King alleges she may have been killed for refusing an abortion.
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.
For the murders of Kassandra, Benjamin, and Mason Sweeney, the juvenile was charged yesterday with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of falsifying evidence.
Kaylee Birdzell was found by investigators four days after her family filed a missing persons report. She’d been murdered and dumped in a landfill, and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office has just jailed Fabian Hernandez for it.
It’s not just a menacing movie tradition or a practice of the past — exorcisms of supposed demons are still actively performed by clergy across the world. When they go wrong, they can go violently, deadly wrong.
After 17 years of investigation, backpacker Strobel’s boyfriend Tobias Friedrich Moran has been arrested in Australia, due to be charged on Thursday.
The former South Carolina personal injury attorney could be sentenced to over seven centuries of prison time for a total of 84 criminal charges and 11 lawsuits.
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.
Along with Vlad the Impaler, Countess Elizabeth Bathory may be one of history’s most infamous inspirations for the vampire legend. Her reputation for brutality emerged from the torture of her victims — an habit she allegedly enjoyed for years until even her royal background could not save her.
70-year-old Anthony Sokolich, the caretaker of 63-year-old Katherine Sokolich, called 911 on Saturday after his sister became unresponsive. He had beaten her to the point of inflicting a brain bleed, which killed her the next day.
Last night, a 20-year-old woman, name unreleased, was fatally shot in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was pushing her 3-month-old infant in a stroller, and the infant was unharmed.
Justine Ruszczyk called 911 to reported a suspected sexual assault in an alley behind her house. When two officers were dispatched to the scene, they were startled by a noise, and Mohamed Noor shot the unarmed woman from the passenger’s seat.
Already serving time for 11 murder convictions, Richard Cottingham was arraigned this week for a 12th: the former cold case of Diane Cusick, found dead in 1968.
From a nobleman’s child in Transylvania to the commander and impaler of tens of thousands, Vlad III made his mark on Wallachian history in blood.
Accompanied by four other girls, 17-year-old Damia Mitchell shot into an ex-girlfriend’s house on Valentine’s Day last year, killing the ex’s friend Faith Burns. Georgia’s severe treatment of gang violence charges added onto her sentence.
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for her protests against Puritan anti-Quaker laws. Her civil disobedience laid a path for the religious tolerance that the American government was founded on a century later.
