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El Salvador Has First Murder-Free Day Since 2009

Drug violence usually kills more than a dozen per day

(Newser) - Saturday was a banner day in El Salvador, because as far as anyone can tell, not a single person was violently killed. That may not sound like much of an accomplishment, but for El Salvador it is; the last time the country had a homicide-free day was 2009, Reuters reports....

3 Brazilians Held in Suspected Cannibalism

Trio sold meat pies, too: police

(Newser) - A Brazilian man, his wife and his mistress have been arrested for suspected cannibalism. Police say the trio killed at least two women, ate part of their bodies, and made the rest into meat pies which they sold in their small town in northeast Brazil. Jorge Beltrao Negroponte, 51, admitted...

Judge Frees Man Who Slashed Wife 120 Times

Karrukh Malik, who pleaded insanity, is free to go

(Newser) - An accountant in Britain is free only a year after he fatally slashed his wife more than 120 times with a kitchen knife, the Daily Mail reports. A judge said that Karrukh Malik, a Pakistani-born resident of Berkshire, would have to continue medical treatments for two years: "If there...

Can You Get Over Killing a Person?
Can You Get Over
Killing a Person?
slate
Apr 14, 2012 1:37 PM CDT

Can You Get Over Killing a Person?

Zimmerman could suffer nasty symptoms for years

(Newser) - A murder victim suffers the worst possible fate. But what about psychological damage to the killer? Therapists who work with them—be they police officers or possible self-defense gunmen like George Zimmerman—have one piece of advice: Relive the incident slowly in your mind, reports Slate . And when you question...

China Detains Official's Wife as Murder Suspect

Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai, arrested in death of Neil Heywood

(Newser) - The plot thickens in the downfall of a former top official in China: Bo Xilai's wife has been detained as a suspect in the death of a British executive. China has now suspended Bo from its leadership, dropping him from the Central Committee and Politburo; last month, he was...

Jealous Hubby Kills Guy for Facebook Flirting: Cops

Taiwanese man accused of baseball bat attack

(Newser) - A little bit of Facebook flirting ended very, very badly for Chuang Shih-chang: Police say the 40-year-old Taiwanese man was beaten to death by another man, 34-year-old Chou You-huang, after Chou discovered Chuang had been flirting with his wife. Chou told police that he asked to meet with Chuang, the...

Angry Afghan Prober Barred From Questioning Bales

'I just wanted to ask him why he did it,' says official

(Newser) - An Afghan investigative chief is frustrated he was not allowed to question the US serviceman charged in the shooting rampage that left 17 Afghan men, women, and children dead. General Sher Mohammed Karimi said he was never allowed to speak to Staff Sergeant Robert Bales before he was whisked off...

I Can Prove OJ Innocent: Private Eye

Simpson's son killed Nicole Brown, Ron Goldman: PI

(Newser) - OJ Simpson wasn't the killer: It was his son who murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, says a private investigator. Texas PI William Dear has spent 18 years probing the murders, and he explains his case in a new book—and an interview with the Village Voice . Jason Simpson...

Man Killed Wife After Dog Pooped in House: Cops

Michael Stephen Stolz shot their two dogs, too

(Newser) - Yikes: A Texas man is charged with shooting and killing his wife after one of their dogs pooped in the house. Michael Stephen Stolz, 76, told police that he first shot the defecating dog—a German Shepherd mix—after the incident Saturday. Then he shot the couple's other dog,...

Pair Charged in Strangling of Vt. Prep School Teacher

Melissa Jenkins went missing Sunday night

(Newser) - A Vermont couple was arrested today and charged with murdering a boarding school teacher who went missing Sunday night, ABC News reports. The body of Melissa Jenkins, 33, was found on a dark road Monday, a day after her SUV was found near signs of a struggle, still running and...

Girls, 16, Face Life for Fatal $39 Cabbie Robbery

North Carolina pair to be tried as adults

(Newser) - Five young people in North Carolina may be spending the rest of their lives in prison for a robbery that made them less than $8 each. Police have charged two 16-year-old girls with the murder of a taxi driver who was stabbed to death and robbed of $39 last summer....

SF Mass Murder Suspect Dodged Deportation

Vietnam refused to take Binh Thai Luc back in 2006

(Newser) - The man accused of the brutal murder of five people in San Francisco was only in America because his native Vietnam refused to take him back, the San Francisco Chronicle finds. After Binh Thai Luc served nearly a decade in prison for the 1996 robbery of a Chinese restaurant in...

Suspect Held in Gruesome San Francisco Murders

Binh Thai Luc arrested after grim scene discovered

(Newser) - San Francisco police have arrested a 35-year-old man in the murders of three women and two men. The bodies were found at a home in the city amid a crime scene police called particularly grisly—and so "complex" that police couldn't say at first whether it was a...

MSU Student Fatally Shot in Dorm
 MSU Student Killed in Dorm 
Mar 26, 2012 1:33 AM CDT

MSU Student Killed in Dorm

Jackson State student shot dead next day at off-campus party

(Newser) - A Mississippi State University student was fatally shot in a dorm on Saturday, and a second student attending a Mississippi college was killed at an off-campus party yesterday. John Sanderson, 21, died shortly after three suspects fled his Starkville residence hall. "The perpetrators fled our campus, but we're...

Fla. Judge: Chasing, Killing Suspect Was Self-Defense
Fla. Judge: Chasing, Killing Suspect Was Self-Defense
'STAND YOUR GROUND' REDUX
Mar 22, 2012 12:55 PM CDT

Fla. Judge: Chasing, Killing Suspect Was Self-Defense

Charges against Greyston Garcia over stabbing death of Pedro Roteta thrown out

(Newser) - As Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law finds itself in the spotlight after the shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin , another controversial case: A judge yesterday threw out the murder charge against Greyston Garcia, who chased down a would-be burglar and stabbed him to death, because she determined...

Mississippi Teen Pleads Guilty to Race-Hate Murder

Deryl Dedmon gets life for running over black man

(Newser) - A white Mississippi teenager who murdered a black man because of the color of his skin has received two life sentences after pleading guilty to killing the victim by driving over him with his pickup in a hate crime. Authorities say Deryl Dedmon, 19, was part of a group of...

Florida Teen's Killing Erupts Into National Story

Trayvon Martin's family wants shooter George Zimmerman prosecuted

(Newser) - An unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, and Zimmerman has yet to be charged; now Reuters reports that the FBI is monitoring the controversial Sanford, Florida, case, which has garnered nationwide attention. Trayvon Martin, 17, was walking through a gated...

3 Girls, Mom Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide

Bodies found at campground, handgun nearby

(Newser) - A mother and her three young daughters were found shot to death near a Missouri campground in what police believe was a triple murder-suicide. Each was killed by a single gunshot, and the weapon was found near the bodies, according to police. The four were not staying at the Bourbon...

Diaries Trigger Fresh Look at Lizzie Borden

May show a more sympathetic side of Borden

(Newser) - Lizzie Borden is back in the spotlight, more than a century after her murder trial, thanks to her attorney's diaries. The two 100-page handwritten journals, which Andrew Jackson Jennings kept in a Victorian bathtub, were left to the Fall River Historical Society after Jennings' grandson died, ABC News reports....

JonBenet Dad Regrets Child Beauty Shows

Pageants may have made girl target of murderer, says father

(Newser) - The father of 6-year-old murdered pageant princess JonBenet Ramsay said he now regrets allowing his daughter to compete in child beauty contests. John Ramsay said he remembers his little girl as a tom boy. "I see her in shorts and T-shirt, and hair kind of scruffy, and just kind...

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