All tagged mental health
New York City police and prosecutors are investigating the death of subway busker Jordan Neely after another passenger restrained the man and held him in a chokehold. According to The New York Times, the 30-year-old’s death was ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner on Wednesday.
Ethan Crumbley, the suspect in the November 2021 Oxford High School shooting, pled guilty Monday to 24 charges including four counts of first-degree murder and one count of terrorism resulting in death.
Halloween 2010 was meant to be like any other day for 16-year-old Devon Griffin. Noticing how quiet his home was, he attempted to search for his mother and stepfather, Susan and William Liske. As he entered their bedroom, he found a blanket pulled over their heads. Believing it was a Halloween prank, he removed the blanket from their heads. His gruesome discovery would lead to his stepbrother, BJ’s, arrest for the brutal murders of Susan and William Liske, and Susan’s son Derek Griffin.
32-year-old indigenous actress Misty Upham disappeared from her family home in Auburn 8 years ago this week. After a lifelong struggle with mental health issues and navigating a very broken system, the system failed Misty one last time when she was found dead and the medical examiner's report listed her cause of death as undetermined.
Thirty-year-old Erin Merdy has been arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree murder after she allegedly drowned her three children near Coney Island in New York City.
Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon in 1980, was denied parole for the 12th time after his most recent appearance in front of the New York parole board.
Georgia Leah Moses disappeared from Santa Rosa California on August 13th 1997. Nine days later, the 12-year-old girl's dead body was found alongside Highway 101 near the Petaluma Boulevard onramp. Georgia's short life was marked by failures of the system, which sadly continued to fail her in death. The investigation was distracted by a series of errors -- from the handling of her missing person report to the identification of her body. Even Georgia's name was printed incorrectly by the media, creating further barriers to justice.
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.
On July 29th 1999, Mark O. Barton unleashed his paranoid wrath in the form of a shooting spree that targeted his colleagues at two day trading firms in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The close proximity and similar settings of the two office buildings made for much confusion among authorities and 911 dispatchers, allowing Barton to flee the scene. As a manhunt for Mark ensued, investigators uncovered a history wrought with delusion, and murderous rage.
In 1992, accused of sexually abusing his daughter Jennifer Freyd during her childhood, Peter Freyd and his wife Pamela would go on to found the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. They claimed that Jennifer, and other survivors who recovered traumatic memories through therapy, could not be trusted.
On November 28th, 2018, 13-year-old Benson was restrained on the floor in his school for over an hour. He became unresponsive and died in the hospital shortly afterward.
Marvin Gaye was a soul and R&B singer-songwriter and producer. In the 1960’s, he helped reshape the sound of Motown Records, leading him to be known as the "Prince of Motown" and the “Prince of Soul.” On April 1, 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gaye Sr.
On March 31, 2019, Hussle, really named Ermias Asghedom was shot along with two other people by Holder outside his clothing store, The Marathon. Three years later, the trial of his murderer is finally underway.
In a long-fought court decision that disturbed international journalism groups today, Washington has won its appeal to return Assange to the U.S. for his 18 charges of espionage.
Known as the ‘Son of Sam’ and the ‘44 Caliber Killer’ David Berkowitz terrified New Yorkers during the summers of 1976 and 1977, committing six murders and wounding nine others.
40-year-old Charles Montgomery Allen randomly opened fire on several cars driving past his home last Saturday. A father and son were hit, and the 8-year-old Quarius Naqua Dunham did not survive after surgery.
On a Saturday morning, May 31, 2014, two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls stabbed their friend (also 12) 19 times. Leutner survived the attack, but the other girls were sentenced to a mental institution.
Late on Monday, May 16th, 25-year-old Lawrence resident Regan Noelle Gibbs was found dead in her home by police. The 911 call came from Gibbs’ husband, 26-year-old Chad Joseph Marek, who claimed that God had instructed him to murder her.
Odette Lysse Jossaint, 41, of Miami, is facing first-degree murder charges after her two children were found dead Tuesday night in their home by responding officers.
