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Dec 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019

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A shooting at a Grand Rapids casino left three dead, and the suspect was later killed in a shootout with police.In Connecticut, the search for missing one year old, Vanessa Morales, continues. Vanessa’s mother, Christine Holloway, was found deceased in her home on December 2nd, and the child was nowhere to be found. On Tuesday, police officially named Vanessa’s father, Jose Morales, a suspect in her murder.Finally, former Austin police officer, VonTrey Clark, has pleaded guilty to the 2015 murder of his girlfriend, Samantha Dean. Dean was seven months pregnant with Clark’s child when she was shot to death.

Dec 18, 2019 Dec 18, 2019

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A California groom was allegedly beaten to death by wedding crashers during his wedding reception.In NYC, a 16-year-old girl, who was abducted off the street by four men, is safe and back with her family.Finally, in Colorado, police charge a Florida truck driver with the 1980 murder of a college student.

Dec 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019

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Baltimore police have identified the dismembered body that was discovered at a recycling plant last Tuesday.A San Bernardino County Probation Officer and her two children were found shot in their home after a five hour standoff with police, in a possible murder-suicide.In West Virginia, a woman is found guilty of murdering and decapitating the 29 year old son of her former lover.Finally, in Mississippi, a judge grants Curtis Flowers bail. Flowers has been in prison for 23 years, having gone through six trials for the same alleged offense. All ended in hung juries or verdicts reversed on appeal.

Dec 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019

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Police in Austin, TX continue searching for missing mother, Heidi Broussard, and her two weeks old daughter, Margot, who were last seen on Thursday morning.In Birmingham, Alabama, police rescued a kidnapped woman from an apartment complex, and she leads them to the location of a female homicide victim.An Arizona father is sentenced to eight years for killing a man who allegedly tried to break into his daughter’s locked bathroom stall.Finally, we have updates on the fatal stabbing of Barnard student, Tessa Majors, on the investigation into last week’s Jersey City shooting, and on the court hearing for Derick Irisha Brown, the woman charged with the kidnapping and capital murder of three year old Kamille McKinney.

Dec 13, 2019 Dec 13, 2019

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A Texas man is charged with murdering his grandmother and great-grandmother because, “he was tired of them.”A Barnard college freshman was stabbed to death in Manhattan, in what police believe was a robbery gone wrong.In Texas, police capture a fugitive wanted for hitting an officer with his car, as he was being arrested, killing her.In Florida, Mark Sievers is sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of his wife, Teresa Sievers.Finally, updates in the Jersey City shootout, the murder of Abril Perez-Sagaon, and the mysterious body found in a freezer in Utah.

Dec 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

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A Las Vegas woman is charged with murdering her ex-girlfriend’s new partner, during an alleged home invasion.A 16-year-old girl from New Carlisle, Ohio, who is charged with aggravated murder, has her case transferred to adult court. In May, Natasha Ellis and a 13-year-old friend allegedly murdered the friend’s mother.Finally, new details about the kidnapping and murder of 3-year-old Kamille Cupcake McKinney were revealed in a preliminary hearing this Tuesday. Kamille McKinney disappeared from an apartment complex in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 12th, and her body was found in a landfill ten days later.

Dec 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019

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Breaking news from Jersey City, where police officers were involved in a shootout that had multiple casualties, including one police officer, the suspects and civilians.A 5-year-old boy was shot and killed in Birmingham, Alabama, after two of his relatives fired at one another during an argument.An Iowan social media entrepreneur was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison, after his plan to force a Cedar Rapids man to hand over a domain name backfired.Finally, a Chicago-area optometrist has been charged with the November 22nd stabbing death of his girlfriend, reigniting interest in the 2011 death of his wife, who died after a car collision, of “undetermined” causes.

Dec 10, 2019 Dec 10, 2019

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A San Antonio man has been charged with aggravated assault after breaking his girlfriend’s jaw in three places, and carving his name into her forehead.Law enforcement have recaptured three out of the four teens who escaped a Tennessee juvenile detention facility on November 30th. Two of the escapees, 15 year old Calvin Howse and 16 year old Decorrius Wright, were apprehended last Tuesday. Two of the escapees are accused murderers.Finally, Alexandra Richardson, a 28-year-old Kentucky mother, has been charged with murder and driving under the influence of drugs. Last Monday, Richardson drove her vehicle, with her two sons in the back seat, around a closed road sign and onto a flooded bridge. The car was swept into the creek bed and fully submerged. Richardson’s younger son, twenty-month-old Carson McCullough, was swept away in the current, and unresponsive when rescued by emergency personnel. On Tuesday night, Carson was taken off life support, and Richardson was subsequently charged with murder.

Dec 9, 2019 Dec 09, 2019

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JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of 5-year-old, AJ Freund, has pleaded guilty to his murder. AJ Freund was reported missing from his home in Crystal Lake, Illinois, on April 18th, 2019, and his body was found in a shallow grave 6 days later.Suspected robbers, fleeing a jewelry store in Coral Gables, Florida, hijacked a UPS van and led police on a high speed highway chase, which ended in a shootout that left four dead.Finally, a banker stabbed his wife and two young children to death, before turning the knife on himself, in Pleasantville, New York.

Dec 6, 2019 Dec 06, 2019

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George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, is back in the news, this time for filing a $100 million dollar lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family.A shooting in the naval shipyard in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, left three dead, including the shooter, an active duty sailor on a submarine docked at the base.In Connecticut, two teenage siblings were shot and killed by their mother’s boyfriend, after an argument about indoor smoking.Finally, in Tennessee, a year-long neighbors’ feud about mowing the lawn ends in a fatal shooting.

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