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Post by CSA FD on Apr 12, 2008 5:06:17 GMT -5
 Murdered moms:(left to right) LaToyia Figueroa, murdered in 2005; Jessie Davis; Jimella Tunstall, a female acquaintance slashed her womb in 2006; Laci Peterson, murdered by her husband Scott Peterson in 2002; Evelyn Hernandez, found in San Francisco Bay at the same time as Laci Peterson in 2002; Jenna Nielsen, murdered in June, case unsolved; Lori Kay Hacking, murdered in 2004, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, stalked and murdered by Lisa Montgomery; Lisa Underwood, murdered by her husband in 2005.  LCpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach and Cpl. Cesar Laurean.  Jessie Davis and Bobby Lee Cutts. Murdered Pregnant Women: The Racial Divide April 12, 2008 When Laci Peterson became the symbol of maternal homicide in the mass media and in the law books (the Violence Against Unborn Children Act is also known as the Laci and Connor's Law), it put a white face on the horrendous crime of maternal homicide. In reality, that face is actually young, and often, black. Reality has been further complicated lately with two more high-profile cases of white pregnant women being killed by their boyfriends: Maria Lauterbach, a pregnant Marine whose body was found alongside her fetus' charred remains; and the guilty verdict against Bobby Cutts, a former Ohio police officer convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend and disposing of her body in the woods. Both stories dominated the airwaves earlier this year. Lauterbach's accused killer, also a Marine, was captured Thursday in Mexico after a three-month manhunt. Left behind in much of the media attention is a slew of similar cases involving black women. On June 13, 2007 Dawna Denise Wright was at her job, managing the office of a San Diego neurologist. At 2 p.m., a man came to her office bearing a bouquet of roses. "Are these for me?" she reportedly said, surprised. The man took out a gun and shot her. Her killer was her on-and-off boyfriend, Roger McDowell, who was also the father of her 8-year-old daughter. An hour later, he confessed to the police but plead not guilty to murder charges. Wright was three months pregnant with McDowell's child. On Sept. 8, 2007 in Louisa, Va., Irwin Fountain, 28, was found guilty of shooting his 18-year-old girlfriend, Shantay Latrice Wheeler, 18, to death and dumping her body. Fountain, who was married at the time of the murder, had given Wheeler money for an abortion and became infuriated when he discovered that she was 8 ½-months pregnant. Her body was found in a field five months later with multiple gunshot wounds. On February 7, 2007, Adrian Estrada, a 23-year-old San Antonio youth pastor received the death penalty for choking and stabbing 17-year-old Stephanie Sanchez to death and leaving her to bleed to death on her kitchen floor. Prosecutors said he was angry because the teenager, who told him she had been in love with him, had become pregnant with his child. Cases of maternal homicide involving minority women are underreported and underpublicized. According to the CDC, black women have a maternal homicide risk about seven times that of white women. Black women ages 25-29 are about 11 times more likely as white women in that age group to be murdered while pregnant or in the year after childbirth. Experts say that a fear and mistrust of the police may lead to black women keeping silent about their suffering. These women may be afraid that by calling the police, they may be endangering their partner. "An abused wife or girlfriend may be hesitant to call 911 for fear that he'll be treated violently or even killed by the police," says Theryn Kigvamasud'Vashti, co-director of Communities Against Rape and Abuse in Seattle. Mandatory arrest laws used in some states require police to make an arrest during any domestic dispute call. And if the batterer presents the situation to make it look like the wife is the initiator of the violence, she could be the one arrested. If she has children, she may fear losing them to social services. The Bush administration's welfare reform policies spent $300 million on programs to encourage marriage among low-income couples. These programs have indirectly impacted violence in the black community, says Kigvamasud'Vasht. "That money would have been better spent on education for these women so that they could support themselves without their abusive partner." Young Moms: A Means Of Control According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. Of these women, 30 percent say the first incident occurs during pregnancy. If a woman is in an abusive or controlling relationship, a pregnancy can make a relationship all the more volatile. "The woman is more vulnerable to abuse during a pregnancy," says Katherine Von Wormer, professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa. "She is less likely to be interested in sex. And it may be a time of high stress, economically and otherwise." The CDC estimates that 4-8 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. are abused by an intimate partner. For men who want to be "in control" of a relationship, an unwanted pregnancy can lead to anger and violence. Then there are abusers who use pregnancy as a means to control their girlfriends, to keep them in a vulnerable and dependent condition. A recent, disturbing study of 61 poor teenaged Boston-area girls of various ethnic backgrounds in abusive relationships published in the journal Ambulatory Pediatrics revealed that 26 percent had reported that their partners were actively trying to get them pregnant against their will. The girls reported that their partners manipulated their birth control or told them that they wanted them to become pregnant. "You think of forced sex as an aspect of abusive relationships, but this takes that abuse a step further to reproductive control of a young woman's body," said study co-author and pediatrician Elizabeth Miller, M.D. While a pregnant woman who is older might have the financial resources or support network to seek help, a younger woman may not. “A young woman who is poor, underage and may be receiving welfare may be less likely to leave an abusive relationship,” says Eboni Colbert, co-director of Communities Against Rape and Abuse. “She may be a ward of the state, she may have no legal guardian. A young woman like that has fewer resources than a woman in her twenties or thirties.” |
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Post by polkadotka on May 19, 2011 13:33:23 GMT -5
Murdered Pregnant Women: The Racial Divide April 12, 2008 When Laci Peterson became the symbol of maternal homicide in the mass media and in the law books (the Violence Against Unborn Children Act is also known as the Laci and Connor's Law), it put a white face on the horrendous crime of maternal homicide. In reality, that face is actually young, and often, black.  www.crimecrawlers.com/?p=5739April 29, 2011 (CALUMET CITY) (WLS) -- Bond has been set for two people charged with the murder of a pregnant 18-year-old from suburban Alsip. Rosemary Newman's body was found in a forest preserve in Calumet City on Sunday. Prosecutors say she was killed by an ex-boyfriend who did not want to be a father.....(more) abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8103493 |
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Post by polkadotka on Jun 3, 2011 3:50:57 GMT -5
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Post by polkadotka on Jun 5, 2011 11:48:21 GMT -5
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Post by polkadotka on Jun 14, 2011 15:57:06 GMT -5
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Post by CSA FD on Jun 14, 2011 16:26:29 GMT -5
you dont have to do "quotes" u can just add the news stories. i dont see your point with the quotes?
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Post by polkadotka on Aug 22, 2011 13:38:41 GMT -5
 August 21, 2011 A Southwest Side man has been charged with fatally shooting a pregnant 17-year-old girl Tuesday in the Marquette Park neighborhood, police said. Her baby was delivered by doctors and survived the attack. Timothy Jones, 18, of the 6300 block of South Rockwell Street, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, according to a police News Affairs release. He is scheduled to appear in bond court later Monday. Charinez Jefferson was pronounced dead at 11:11 p.m. Tuesday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after suffering multiple gunshot wounds at 64th and Whipple streets according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. An autopsy Wednesday determined Jefferson died of multiple gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office. Jefferson, who was six months pregnant, suffered gunshot wounds to the body and a critical gunshot wound to the head, according to Fire Media Affairs. Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said the baby is a boy. Fire Media Affairs spokesman Will Knight said the baby survived and was in “stable” condition a day after the attack. www.suntimes.com/news/crime/7206839-418/man-charged-with-killing-pregnant-teen.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Sept 9, 2011 5:12:32 GMT -5
  December 10, 2009 KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A second man has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a pregnant woman and her unborn child. An FBI fugitive task force arrested Calvin Boswell, 24, Thursday morning in Grandview. On Nov. 20, Ashley Thomas was fatally shot as she sat in a car with her boyfriend and another man at East Armour Boulevard and Tracy Avenue. The other two men survived the shooting. According to court documents, witnesses identified Boswell as the person who walked by and opened fire. Thomas was nine months pregnant. Her unborn daughter didn't survive. Ashley's relatives told KMBC's Martin Augustine that they're relieved that Boswell is in custody. "Today, for the first time … I don't know how to describe it. I felt a sense of relief," said Alison Thomas, Ashley's mother. "Today was just a little bit better than the rest of the days." Boswell faces eight criminal charges, including second-degree murder. "The hole is going to be there for a while. By catching this guy, it's not going to relieve the pain of the emptiness," father Charles Thomas said. Last month, Lionel Henderson, 25, was charged in the case. Prosecutors said Henderson is accused of serving as a lookout for Boswell. Ashley's funeral was held the day before Thanksgiving www.kmbc.com/news/21925516/detail.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Sept 18, 2011 3:11:04 GMT -5
 April 02, 2008 The Walker County Sheriff’s Department issued a warrant for the arrest of Neriah Louis Roberts in connection with the death of Tierra Lechall Adams, whose body was found in Walker County approximately eight days ago. According to Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae, the identity of the victim has been confirmed as Adams, a 25-year-old pregnant Houston woman. Adams had been missing since Jan. 28, 2008. “As of today, at approximately 1:20 p.m., investigators from the Walker County Sheriff’s Office transported the victim’s dental records to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office for comparison, which did in fact confirm the victim in this case to be Tierra Adams,” he said. McRae held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to request assistance from the public in apprehending Roberts, a 29-year-old Houston man. “I would like to begin by offering my condolences to the victim’s family in this case, it is truly a tragedy,” McRae said. “Although it may seem like a lifetime since Tierra’s disappearance, law enforcement agencies involved have worked very diligently in establishing probable cause to make an arrest in this case.” McRae said Roberts, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 220 pounds, has been charged with murder — a felony one offense. “Evidence obtained up to this point has assisted law enforcement in placing suspect Neriah Roberts at the burial site,” McRae said. “On March 29, a search warrant was also executed at an undisclosed location in Northwest Houston which assisted in establishing probable cause in obtaining an arrest warrant for Roberts. “Law enforcement is now asking for the public’s assistance in locating the suspect,” he said. “For information pertaining to the whereabouts of the suspect in this case, please contact the Walker County Sheriff’s Department or the Houston Police Department.” While the current location of Roberts is unknown, McRae said the department is following up on several leads. “We know that (Roberts) was at the dumpsite (located off Pinedale Road east of Interstate 45),” he said. “We also received a hit that he purchased vehicle insurance in the Florida area for an unknown car.” Roberts, McRae said, was the former live-in boyfriend of Adams prior to her disappearance in January. To McRae’s knowledge, Roberts has no background of criminal history or violence. “At this point, we can’t release any information about (possibilities for a motive),” he said. “As far as the murder and where it took place — that’s what we’re trying to determine and we’re investigating several leads.” Adams, found lying face down in a “shallow grave,” was discovered on the morning of March 26 by a local resident who became suspicious when observing buzzards and hogs feeding in a rural area. “The caller advised that he had located what he believed to be human remains ... located approximately 50 or 60 feet north of the roadway,” McRae said. Although the time of death has yet to be reported, Adams, who was due on Valentine’s Day, was killed before giving birth to the child, McRae said. “We have confirmed that the child was present in the mother’s womb,” he said. “She was right near the full term. “The medical examiner is in the process of performing an autopsy and I’m assuming that it began with the adult first (and then to the child). They are currently working on that.” McRae said the department is doing everything it can to apprehend the suspect. “The primary reason for this conference is to ask for assistance from the public in locating the suspect,” he said. “He has short black hair, brown eyes and was last seen with facial hair.” To report any information concerning this case, call the Sheriff’s Office at (936) 435-2400. www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=177144 |
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Post by polkadotka on Nov 28, 2011 10:32:26 GMT -5
  Nov 27, 2011 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Metro police detectives in Hermitage charged a man Sunday with criminal homicide for the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Jordans Benoit called police at 1:45 a.m. Sunday and reported that his girlfriend had been shot inside their home located at 421 Raintree Place. Benoit, 32, told officers the gun discharged as he and Almise Derilus argued. Derilus, 44, was shot in the neck. She was eight months pregnant. Derilus was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she later died. Doctors were unable to save the unborn baby. "I don't get it. Both of them were looking forward to that baby," friend Navalie Alvarez told Nashville's News 2. Alvarez said Derilus was a Haitian native and does not have any family in the area. "She was a wonderful person and mother," she continued. Derilus leaves behind a six-year-old son with Down syndrome. Benoit has been jailed on a $500,000 bond. Additional charges are expected, police said. www.wkrn.com/story/16129236/pregnant-woman-shot-in-hermitage |
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Post by polkadotka on Dec 18, 2011 13:41:36 GMT -5
UPDATED: 9:00 am EDT May 11, 2010 BALTIMORE -- Baltimore city police said they have arrested the boyfriend of a pregnant woman who was strangled to death and charged him in her slaying. Betsy Riggin, 29, was found inside an apartment in northeast Baltimore last week, according to police. Andrew Jackson, 29, of the 4100 block of Eierman Avenue, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and related charges. He was Riggin's boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, police told 11 News. A co-worker and friend of Riggan alerted police at about 1 p.m. Thursday when she did not show up for work. Police went to the apartment to check on her welfare, and fire crews forced their way in. Charging documents revealed that Riggin was found under her bed with bruises on her stomach, arms, neck and face. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and an autopsy determined she died by strangulation. "My little granddaughter's 5, and when they told her Betsy was in heaven, she said, 'Betsy can't be in heaven, she's having a baby,'" said Cathy Staver, Riggin's mother, who is mourning her daughter from Illinois. Staver told 11 News that Riggins was due in September with her first child, a boy. Jackson, who was arrested on Friday, is being held at Central Booking. Police said he confessed to the slaying. Staver said she never met Jackson when she came for a visit during the several years he dated her daughter, but Riggin's father had. "Her dad thought he was so nice and so respectful and so polite, and I had no idea," Staver said. The family said they were also unaware that Jackson had a long criminal history dating back 10 years to when he was 19. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to assault charges. In 2002 and 2005, he pleaded guilty to drug charges, and in 2008, he was convicted of theft. On April 28, an arrest warrant was issued for Jackson after a car accident due to a probation violation, but he wasn't picked up on that warrant, officials told 11 News. A week later, Riggin was dead. Staver said she wasn't sure if her daughter knew about Jackson's checkered past. "I can't believe that my daughter -- knowing she was the way she was -- would tolerate anyone like that," she said. Staver said she's glad Jackson is behind bars. "I've never felt so angry or hateful in my life. I didn't know I could feel this way," she said. Since Riggin was pregnant, the case could fall under the viable fetus law, meaning Jackson would also face charges in the death of the baby. "The medical examiner would determine, with the assistance of medical experts, that the fetus would be viable outside the womb when the murder occurred," said state's attorney Margaret Burns. Its unclear exactly how far along Riggin was in her pregnancy, so the state's attorney's office said it is waiting for those reports before making that determination. Meanwhile, Riggin's family is planning services for her this weekend in both Maryland and Illinois.   www.wbaltv.com/news/23500463/detail.htmlvoices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2010/05/baltimore_killing_leads_to_que.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Dec 20, 2011 14:16:05 GMT -5
  20th December 2011 A man believed to have killed his pregnant girlfriend apologised on Facebook, saying 'he was not asking for sympathy'. Willie Davis Hines Jr, 23, was being hunted by police after his girlfriend, 24-year-old Tatjana Cruz, was discovered unconscious with severe head injuries at the couple's home last Wednesday. Hines, from Adelanto, California, said he was not 'armed or dangerous' but added: 'I am not trying to say there was any excuse for what I did but be clear that Tatjana, was very sneaky she always had something going on outside of Us.' Miss Cruz's unborn child was dead on her arrival at hospital. She died two days later surrounded by family and friends after being taken off life support. She is believed to have two other sons and one boy may have witnessed her violent beating. The posting on Hines' Facebook page called Miss Cruz's death a 'disaster' and said his actions were not intentional. He allegedly wrote: 'I fled the scene, because I don't think there is any way to prove that this is not just a act of pure hate.' The brutal assault on Miss Hines happened last Wednesday evening. A neighbour who heard the attack called the police and identified Hines who was seen running from the home. Police spokeswoman Jodi Miller told ABC7: 'The female was taken for severe injuries believed to be caused by blunt force trauma. She was pregnant. Unfortunately www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076593/Suspect-Willie-Hines-apologises-Facebook-beating-pregnant-girlfriend-dead.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Jan 25, 2012 6:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by polkadotka on Jan 28, 2012 13:24:01 GMT -5
 Chelsea Brooks, 14 and nine months pregnant, was strangled to death and left in a wheat field in Butler County, Kansas near Wichita on June 9, 2006. Brooks had just completed the eight grade and had been warned by her parents to stop seeing her 19-year-old boyfriend, Elgin Ray Robinson, Jr  Elgin Ray Robinson Jr. met Brooks when he was 19 and she was 14 at Riverfest in Wichita, Kansas. Brooks parents and friends reportedly warned her not to see Robinson because of the age difference. When Brooks became pregnant, Robinson feared he would be prosecuted for statutory rape, so he allegedly planned her murder with Ted Burnett, then 49, and Everett Gentry, then 17. Robinson is currently on trial for the murder and could receive the death penalty of convicted.  Everett Gentry, 17 at the time of the murder, pleaded guilty July 14, 2006 to murder. He was not eligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time. He was the key witness in the trial of accomplice Ted Burnett and will also be the key witness in the tiral of Elgin Ray Robinson Jr.  Ted Burnett, 49 at the time of the murder, was convicted May 23, 2008 for his part in the murder of Chelsea Brooks. Burnett is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. www.zimbio.com/Elgin+Ray+Robinson+Jr. |
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Post by polkadotka on Feb 24, 2012 2:14:49 GMT -5
 Tiffany Gillespie, 24  Aaron Fitzpatrick, 19 of South Philadelphia, was arrested for allegedly shooting his girlfriend to death early Thursday morning because he was angry that she was pregnant with his child. Around 2:20 a.m., police responded to a home on Mildred Street near Wolf and found Tiffany Gillespie, 24, lying on the floor in the basement, police said. Gillespie was shot once in her head, and was pronounced dead on the scene by medics, police said. Fitzpatrick, of 8th Street near McKean, faces charges of murder, murdering an unborn child, and weapons violations, police said. www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Man-slays-pregnant-girlfriend-arrested-.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Feb 24, 2012 3:03:45 GMT -5
 Thu Nov 17, 2011. A Jamaica man was convicted last Thursday in the brutal stabbing murder of his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child. He faces 25 years to life when he is sentenced on Nov. 22. Derrick Redd, 38, of 166th Street, plunged a knife into the stomach and torso of his girlfriend Niasha Delain, 20 to 30 times including inflicting five stab wounds to the fetus, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Delain, 25, was nine-months pregnant and scheduled to give birth the day she was murdered, Oct. 25, 2008, at her South Ozone Park home on Lefferts Boulevard, the DA said. The baby did not survive. “It is incomprehensible that this defendant would unleash such a vicious attack on his girlfriend and his unborn child on the date the baby was expected to come into the world – which also happened to be the birthday of the victim’s father,” Queens DA Richard Brown said in a statement, adding, “He must be sentenced to the maximum time in prison in order to punish him and to protect society.” Redd has been convicted of intentional second-degree murder, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree abortion following a jury trial before Queens Supreme Court Justice Daniel Lewis. “According to trial testimony, Derrick Redd was not sure if the baby was his and did not want the baby,” Helen Petersen, a spokeswoman for the Queens DA, said Friday. Murder is the most common cause of injury-related death for pregnant women, second only to car accidents, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Between 1990 and 2004 more than 1,300 pregnant women were murdered. Most, about 56 percent, were shot to death while the rest were stabbed or strangled. Some 77 percent of these victims were killed during their first trimester. However, the number of pregnancy homicides could be higher than data reveals, according to the NCADV, because death certificates and medical examiners’ records do not always state whether the women were with child, allowing these types of murders to go undetected. Women under the age of 20 and those who receive late or no prenatal care are most vulnerable to intimate partner homicide, according to the group, and those with unintended pregnancies are two to four times more likely to experience physical violence than women with planned pregnancies. “A lot of men don’t want to be responsible for being a father, so they think this is the only way out,” said Shawn Williams, a crime victims advocate from LeFrak City and the mother of three daughters. “Sometimes you would hear about men punching or kicking women to abort the fetus, but now I guess they’ve gotten to the point where they want to get rid of both, because if the mother survives, she can press charges.” According to the New York State Penal Code committing an abortional act upon a female is only justifiable when she gives her consent and it is performed by a licensed physician acting under reasonable belief that it is necessary to preserve her life, or, within 24 weeks from the commencement of her pregnancy. Abortion in the second degree is a class E felony. www.qchron.com/news/eastern/man-brutally-killed-his-pregnant-girlfriend/article_71230698-a174-5e5e-9558-dd6803237cde.html |
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Post by polkadotka on Mar 13, 2012 2:09:22 GMT -5
 March 12, 2012 A Manhattan man serving 20 to life for murdering his common-law wife has confessed to also killing his first common-law wife, cutting off her head and burying it in Riverside Park, prosecutors said today. Philip Ward, 45, had long been a suspect in the 1989 murder of the pregnant Veronica Bowen, but was never charged with the crime until today, after he confessed while behind bars. “After 18 years of being in prison for killing his second wife, what motivated him to confess now I don’t know,” said Ward’s lawyer Frank Rothman, but he is hoping the move will help him to have “some sort of relationship with his children.” Ward and Bowen had met as teenagers in a group foster home, and they had two children together, prosecutors said. Domestic violence led her to leave the Riverside Drive apartment she shared with Ward and their kids, and her getting pregnant with another man’s child spurred Ward to plan her murder, court papers say. On Feb. 1, 1989, he lured her up the roof of his building at W. 148 Street and Riverside Drive, where he had a pipe, a dagger, a kitchen knife, plastic bags and a change of clothes waiting, prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer said. First he attacked Bowen with the pipe, and then used the dagger to stab her to death, Lederer said. Then he used the kitchen knife “to cut her head off,” Lederer said. He washed up using the water tower on the roof, and got rid of their clothes in the plastic bags, Lederer said. He put her head into another bag, and “buried it in Riverside Park,” Lederer said. Her body was discovered three weeks after the murder. The head was never found. Investigators scoured Ward’s apartment, but weren’t able to find any physical evidence, Lederer said. Five years later, Ward was living with another woman named Sheila Jackson, and he shot her seven times after an argument. He also raped an 11-year-old girl who tried to come to Jackson’s defense, and shot her, officials said. He pleaded guilty to second degree murder in that case. Court papers show he came clean about Bowen on Feb. 8, one day before the 23rd anniversary of her disappearance. Sources said she’d gone to Ward’s apartment to visit their kids. Rothman said his client has been “extraordinarily cooperative” with investigators, including helping them to try to find Bowen’s head. At the Ward family home on Riverside Drive, a young relative of the killer said, “We are not talking about this at all.” Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/man_serving_to_life_QBGoQ3k9Srg0wL6BJkne3O#ixzz1oyiJWZvL |
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Post by polkadotka on Mar 19, 2012 4:43:05 GMT -5
 Posted: Mar 17, 2012 4:56 PM EAST POINT, GA (CBS ATLANTA) - An East Point man was denied bond during his first appearance in court Friday. Roderick Watkins is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend Wednesday night. Officers said they responded to a third-story apartment at 2900 Laurel Ridge Drive at 7:55 p.m. Officers found Ashley Clark. She had been shot in the upper body. Watkins was taken into custody. Clark later died at Grady Hospital. Watkins was charged with one count of murder and one count of feticide. Watkins and Clark shared Apt. 5306 at the Laurel Ridge complex, according to East Point police. www.cbsatlanta.com/story/17181248/east-point-man-arrested-for-fatally-shoointg-of-pregnant-girlfriend |
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Post by polkadotka on Mar 19, 2012 7:11:42 GMT -5
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (WTW) — A New Jersey man who killed his girlfriend and dumped her body in a suitcase in New York City has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison. Shawn Southerland must serve the full term he received Friday, and will then be on supervised release for five years after he's freed from prison. Southerland was convicted of murder earlier this year during a non-jury trial where he represented himself. The 50-year-old Bayonne resident killed 36-year-old Christie Neely in 2007, who worked as a telemarketer in Manhattan. Her body was found in a suitcase off the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx. Authorities traced the suitcase to a store in Bayonne, where a store employee identified Southerland as the person who bought it. He was arrested in Philadelphia in 2008. www.htrnews.com/usatoday/article/38819519?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s |
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Post by polkadotka on May 1, 2012 16:21:55 GMT -5
 DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. (AP) - A pregnant woman has been found stabbed to death in Prince George's County, and police have arrested a man with whom she was having a relationship. Officers responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle in District Heights found the body of 23-year-old Jasmine Nichelle Moss inside a car. She was determined to be pregnant and police say 22 -year-old Nathan Cedric Rogers was the father of the unborn child. Detectives arrested Rogers, of District Heights, and police say he'll be charged with first-degree murder. Officials say the killing was domestic in nature. plattsenergyweektv.com/news/article/203896/158/Jasmine-Nichelle-Moss-Found-Killed-In-Prince-Georges-County-Nathan-Cedric-Rogers-Arrested |
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