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Cops Look at Hate Crime in NY Punching Death

Jeffrey Babbitt dies after random attack

(Newser) - The death of a man who suffered a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage in Manhattan after being punched has been ruled a homicide, NY1 reports. Jeffrey Babbitt (some outlets use the spelling "Jeffery Babbit"), 62, was walking in Union Square around 3pm last Wednesday when Lashawn Marten allegedly...

Cops: New Bride Shoved Husband Over Cliff

She confesses to killing 8 days after wedding

(Newser) - A Montana newlywed turned herself into a widow just eight days into her marriage by pushing her husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park, police say. Jordan Linn Graham, 22, has told investigators that she argued with Cody Johnson, 25, while they walking on a steep hiking trail on...

A Woman Killed Over Dowry Every Hour in India

And conviction rate is just 32%

(Newser) - One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes, indicating that the country's economic boom has made demands for dowries even more persistent, women's rights activists said yesterday. The National Crime Records Bureau says 8,233 women were killed across India last year because of disputes...

Woman Claims She's Hunting Bus-Driving Rapists

Ciudad Juarez authorities looking for woman who killed 2 drivers

(Newser) - Mexican prosecutors are investigating claims that a woman who killed two bus drivers last week in this northern border city was seeking revenge for alleged sexual abuse of female passengers. A woman wearing a blond wig—or dyed hair—boarded a Ciudad Juarez bus on Wednesday morning, approached the driver,...

Teen Guilty of Murdering Baby in Stroller

Georgia's De'Marquise Elkins faces life in prison

(Newser) - A Georgia teenager has been convicted of murder in a particularly jarring case: Jurors say De'Marquise Elkins, now 18, shot a baby in a stroller during an attempted robbery, reports AP . His accused accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, will be tried next, also as an adult. Police say the teens...

Murder Suspect Says Wife Asked Him to Shoot Her

She was suffering from breast cancer, allegedly wanted him to 'end her pain'

(Newser) - "Hello … I just shot my wife." That's how Ernest Chris Chumbley introduced himself to a 911 operator yesterday morning. "Give me police. I'm under arrest," he said, according to a tape obtained by WKYT . Sure enough, police arrived to find his wife Virginia...

Mom Killed Boyfriend, Left Him in Freezer: Cops

Police search for kids

(Newser) - Police say a Minnesota mom beat her boyfriend to death with a closet rod and stuck his body in a freezer—"a big trunk freezer, the kind your grandmother had," says a prosecutor. Jetaun Helen Wheeler of Shorewood, a 29-year-old with three kids, has been charged with second-degree...

Army Vet Shot at Californians— While Atop Tractor

Ryan Carnan shot dead by police Saturday

(Newser) - A 29-year-old Army veteran allegedly murdered his mother, set her house on fire, and then fired at residents in Simi Valley, Calif., while driving a tractor before being shot dead by police Saturday, NBC Los Angeles reports. Police were alerted to the situation by Ryan Carnan's brother, who reported...

Woman's Scribbled Note Was Key Clue in Her Murder

It led police to Elizabeth Begaren's killer ... and then her husband: prosecutors

(Newser) - A note scrawled by a prison guard minutes before her death was the clue that led to her killer, Orange County prosecutors said at the trial of her husband, who is charged with arranging the killing. Elizabeth Begaren scribbled down the license plate number of a car that followed her...

Copycat Killing? Photo of Dead Girlfriend Sent via App

Costa Rica case mirrors one in Florida

(Newser) - Less than two weeks after a man posted a photo of his dead wife to Facebook and confessed online to killing her, a similar case emerges in Costa Rica. Police there say a 29-year-old man strangled his girlfriend and sent a photo of her body via What'sApp to her...

Guy Charged With Killing Friend Over Beer Money

Gumaro Torres allegedly shot multiple people in argument

(Newser) - A summer evening spent drinking in the yard turned fatal Friday night—and all over beer money. Gumaro Torres is accused of murdering one friend and wounding another in the dispute. As the Tribune reports, the 31-year-old was drinking beer with co-workers in the yard of a Chicago home. The...

Cops: Okla. Teens Killed Baseball Player 'for Fun'

Young Australian gunned down at random

(Newser) - A young Australian man who was in the US on a baseball scholarship is dead because three bored teenagers decided to kill somebody for fun, say police in Duncan, Oklahoma. Christopher Lane, 22, was out for a jog in the small town when he was gunned down, apparently at random,...

Teen Killed in Argument —Over a Kite

He cut alleged murderer's kite string

(Newser) - A group of teenagers kicked and beat a 17-year-old to death after a kite-flying dispute on the rooftops of the Indian capital, police said today. Rajan Chand had been flying a kite in a northeast Delhi neighborhood Friday when he apparently angered another boy by snapping the line on his...

Pistorius Indicted on Murder Charge

Olympian's trial to begin in March

(Newser) - Oscar Pistorius was indicted today on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend. A Pretoria court set March 3 as the trial date for the double-amputee Olympian, who has said he shot Reeva Steenkamp by mistake, believing she was...

What Craigslist Killings Say About White Men

Both killers and victims were clinging to love outside of family

(Newser) - The Ohio "Craigslist murders" may be old news, but what they teach us about America is still heartbreaking. Two years ago, Richard Beasley and his teenage accomplice Brogan Rafferty were arrested for luring Craigslist job-hunters into rural areas and killing them. In an extensive Atlantic article, Hanna Rosin looks...

Hannah Anderson on Dead Kidnapper: 'He's a Psycho'

Talks about James Lee DiMaggio, ordeal online

(Newser) - No need to wait for Hannah Anderson's first big TV interview: The teen has already discussed her kidnapping ordeal in surprising detail online. Hannah answered anonymous questions on ask.fm starting Monday night, and the mother of one of her close friends confirmed to the AP that the postings...

Hostage Killed in Louisiana Bank Standoff

Gunman killed after shooting 2 hostages

(Newser) - A man who took hostages at a bank in rural Louisiana shot the two remaining hostages, killing one of them, before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. During negotiations with law enforcement yesterday, the suspect—identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Abdo Ahmed—said he was going to kill the...

DNA Test Fails With In Cold Blood Killers

Perry Smith, Richard Hickock can't be linked to Fla. killing

(Newser) - The killers chronicled in the book In Cold Blood may have gotten away with one—at least for now. DNA testing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock has failed to tie them conclusively to the murder of the Walker family in Sarasota, Fla., the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. A detective had...

Slain Brit's Mom to China: Show Us 'Compassion'

Neil Heywood at center of Bo Xilai scandal

(Newser) - The mother of the British businessman murdered in China's biggest political scandal in decades has kept quiet about the matter—but now, she says, it's time to speak up. Ann Heywood is calling on China to show "decisiveness and compassion" to "mitigate the consequences of a...

Calif. Murder Suspect's Car: Found in Idaho?

Vehicle linked to James DiMaggio discovered in remote area

(Newser) - California murder suspect James DiMaggio may have dumped his car in a remote area of Idaho, CNN reports. Sheriff's deputies say they found a vehicle in Cascade, Idaho, matching a car linked to DiMaggio—presumably the blue Nissan Versa authorities warned about yesterday . No word on what's inside...

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