Category: Domestic Violence
Md. man charged with stabbing three young female relatives to death as they slept
On August 19, the Prince Georges County Police Department announced that their homicide detectives arrested and charged 25-year-old Antonio Williams of Clinton, Maryland, after three of his young female relatives […]
Ex-Vanderbilt football player Brandon Banks gets 15 years for gang rape of unconscious student
Former Vanderbilt University football player Brandon Banks was sentenced to 15 years behind bars on August 18 for his part in the gang rape of a girlfriend of another Vanderbilt […]
NFL suspends Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott amid domestic violence allegations
Although not charged with any criminal activity, Dallas Cowboys’ running back Ezekiel Elliott has been suspended for six games without pay due to domestic violence allegations that he beat up […]
Driver that plowed into Charlottesville, Va. crowd charged with murder
(Updated) Skirmishes between white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protestors attending a “Unite the Right” rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and then deadly on August 12 […]
Woman who murdered her 10-year-old cousin sentenced to death
Sammantha Allen, 28, of Phoenix, was sentenced to death on August 7 after being found guilty of murdering her 10-year-old cousin, Ame Deal, back in 2011. As punishment for taking […]
Investigation continues into cruise ship murder of Kristy Manzanares
Because the bludgeoning murder of 39-year-old Kristy Manzanares took place in international waters, the FBI is actively investigating her homicide. Kristy was killed during a July 25 cruise aboard the Emerald […]
Wife bludgeoned to death by husband aboard cruise ship: ‘She would not stop laughing at me’
(Updated June 6, 2021) Kenneth Manzanares, the Utah businessman who admitted to beating his wife to death aboard a cruise ship in Alaska in 2017 was sentenced on June 3, […]
N.H. woman cleared in justified shooting death of estranged husband
In early February, Michael S. Carney, 44, of Sullivan, New Hampshire, was shot and killed in a residence in the town of Stoddard. His autopsy revealed that he died as […]
Amber Alert issued for abducted one-month-old boy in Yuma, Az.
On the morning of July 26, the Yuma Police Department shared an Amber Alert to the department’s Facebook page. According to their posted statement, the police are searching for Alfredo […]
Mass. woman charged after boyfriend found dismembered in her closet
Kathryn Podgurski, 33, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was taken into police custody on July 22 after the remains of her boyfriend, Joseph Shaw, 44, were found in a closet in her […]
