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Mar 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020

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In California, a social worker was allegedly stabbed to death by an 18-year-old man she was trying to help.A New Jersey man is facing multiple charges after allegedly coughing on a grocery store employee, and telling her he was infected with the Coronavirus.A Tennessee woman is charged with killing her elderly grandparents.Finally, the remains of missing Kentucky teen, Paige Johnson, have been discovered in Ohio, nearly ten years after she was reported missing.

Mar 25, 2020 Mar 25, 2020

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In Texas, a mother is charged with murder after allegedly killing her 4-year-old son.12 inmates escaped a Washington state jail because of anxiety concerning the coronavirus pandemic.Finally, police in Pensacola, Florida, have solved the 1983 cold case murder of 23-year-old Tonya McKinley.

Mar 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020

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A Michigan teen was found guilty of the 2019 murder of two gay men and a transgender woman. Prosecutors alleged the victims were targeted based on their sexual orientation.In the UK, a seven year old girl was fatally stabbed by a stranger at a public park.A fifth suspect was arrested in connection with the 2019 ‘sorcery’ murder of Virginia teen, Richard Cruz.Finally, in Wisconsin, police charged a suspect in the 2008 murder of University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Brittany Zimmerman.

Mar 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020

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In California, Charles Holifield was convicted of the 1998 kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 13-year-old Christina Williams.A Utah woman is facing murder charges, after an autopsy revealed her husband died of blunt force trauma, and not alcohol abuse, as she had claimed.Finally, an 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Nevada teen, Gabrielle Lynn Ujlaky, whose body was discovered near Spring Creek on March 11th.

Mar 20, 2020 Mar 20, 2020

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An Iowa man has been charged with murder after allegedly killing his mother during an argument, and leaving her body in her home, to be discovered days later.The pastor of a Houston megachurch has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in connection with his role in a multi-million dollar investment scam.Finally, in Los Angeles, the trial of eccentric real estate scion, Robert Durst, has been halted due to public health concerns.

Mar 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020

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An Ohio woman was arrested in Louisiana in connection with the murder of her 11-year-old son.The execution of Texas death row inmate, John William Hummel, has been stayed due to coronavirus concerns.Finally, a former MMA fighter, already charged with a double murder in Texas, was indicted for a 2009 Minnesota murder.

Mar 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020

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A Mississippi judge is in critical condition after being shot outside the Meridian Courthouse.Police in Northeastern Nevada are investigating the murder of 16-year-old Gabrielle Lynn Ujlaky, whose body was discovered near Spring Creek last week.Seven members of the same family were killed in a suspected murder-suicide in North Carolina.Finally, in Japan, 30-year-old Satoshi Uematsu was sentenced to death by hanging for a 2016 mass murder in a care home for disabled people. 19 people died in the attack, and 20 more were seriously injured.

Mar 17, 2020 Mar 17, 2020

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Police in Akron, Ohio, have arrested a 57-year-old man for the 1991 cold case murder of 23-year-old Rachael Johnson. Johnson’s body was found by passerby after she was raped, beaten, stabbed multiple times and set on fire.A Washington state man is facing murder charges in connection with the murders of 34-year-old Charlene Van Auten and her four year old daughter.Finally, a Sioux Falls woman, who is facing charges after forensic genealogy connected her to the 1981 murder of a newborn baby, is challenging the charges on the basis that police violated her constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure by obtaining her DNA profile from discarded garbage.

Mar 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020

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Human remains discovered last week in Pueblo, Colorado, have been identified as those of 58-year-old Maria ‘Mary’ Cuevas-Garcia, whose torso was found inside a suitcase in October 2019. Cuevas’ 36-year-old son, Anthony Cuevas, has been charged with her murder.Law enforcement in Florida announced the discovery of the remains of 9-year-old Diana Alvarez, who has been missing since May 2016. The suspect in her disappearance, Jose Torres, was indicted for her kidnapping, molestation and first degree murder in 2018, and his trial is still pending.Finally, In California, a jury found former Navy sailor, Matthew Sullivan, guilty of the 2014 murder of his wife, Elizabeth Sullivan, whose body was discovered in San Diego Bay in 2016. The prosecution argued that Sullivan kept his wife’s body in a freezer for two years, and disposed of it in the bay when he moved to the east coast.

Mar 13, 2020 Mar 13, 2020

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Police in Michigan are investigating the homicide of 25-year-old Alison Sargent, whose burned body was discovered on Saturday in Emmett Township.The NYPD have arrested a 63-year-old self-styled ‘bishop’ for the cold case murder of 19-year-old legal secretary, Lorraine Snell. Snell’s body was discovered behind a Brooklyn supermarket on September 25th, 1980.Finally, in Bristol, England, a jury convicted grime artist Andy Anokye, aka Solo 45, of raping and falsely imprisoning four women.

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