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Horrific murders of pregnant woman, baby: Jury deadlocks on life or death for...
A jury deadlocked Thursday on whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole for a man convicted of the 2001 killings of a pregnant woman and her unborn son...
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El Monte baptism killing 24 years later, justice finally served
Photo via Pixabay A 55-year-old man who shot a guest at an El Monte baptism party nearly 24 years ago was convicted Monday of voluntary manslaughter. Angel Barraza had been charged with murder in the...
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Death by bow and arrow: Murder conviction for Lancaster killer
Garrett Taylor Adams A 26-year-old Lancaster resident, who used a hunting bow and arrow to kill a man who tried to break up an argument between the killer and his girlfriend, was convicted Monday of...
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Gory stabbing eye socket to brain, bloody beating: Jury seated in Lake...
Booking photo of Andy Dean Abegg/Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. A jury was seated Friday in the trial of a probationer accused of fatally beating and stabbing a Lake Elsinore man during a...
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Kiddie killing suspect mentally incompetent: Random shotgun slaying of mom,...
Brandon Ivan Colbert Jr. Photo via Long Beach Police Department An Oklahoma man charged in the shotgun killings of a Long Beach woman and her 4-year-old daughter, who were randomly targeted while...
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Karaoke bar mom guilty in her baby boy’s beating death
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. A Palmdale woman was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder and child abuse stemming from her 23-month-old son’s beating death at the hands of her live-in boyfriend, who...
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Deadly shooting: Sheriff’s in search of leads in Willowbrook murder
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Photo by John Schreiber. Authorities Wednesday identified a man who was killed in a shooting that left another man wounded in unincorporated Willowbrook near Compton....
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Palmdale baby murder: Convicted babysitter sentenced in 5-month-old’s death
Photo via Pixabay A Palmdale woman convicted of second-degree murder for the death of a nearly 5-month-old boy who was left in her care was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison....
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Grisly rape, murder of mom of 3: Will defendant go free in deadly gas station...
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Jurors failed to reach a consensus Monday in the trial of a man accused of the 1978 kidnapping, rape and murder of a mother of three who worked the night shift at a...
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Brutal murder in Van Nuys: Maintenance worker in’wrong place at the wrong time’
Photo by John Schreiber. A man convicted of fatally shooting and stabbing a maintenance worker near a Target store parking lot in Van Nuys was sentenced Thursday to 50 years to life in state prison....
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Baby killer mom gets new trial: Jury instructions error in Santa Ana bathtub...
Photo via Pixabay A 32-year-old woman convicted of drowning her 2-month-old daughter in a bathtub in Santa Ana won the right to a new trial Thursday. The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled there was...
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Baseball bat killer guilty of murdering USC grad student from China: Horrific...
via LinkedIn A 21-year-old man was convicted Thursday of first- degree murder for the beating of a USC graduate student from China who was attacked during an attempted robbery near the campus after...
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Killer gunned down 17-year-old Texas girl in Marina Del Rey, convicted of murder
A sheriff’s cruiser at the scene of the Marina Del Rey shooting. Courtesy of OnScene.TV A San Diego County man was convicted Thursday of gunning down a 17-year-old girl in the parking lot of a Marina...
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Cold-case murder mystery solved? Arizona man charged in 1984 Santa Ana...
John William Zelinski. Photo: Orange County DA’s Office A 61-year-old man has been extradited from Arizona and charged in Orange County with the 1984 stabbing death of a homeless man in Santa Ana,...
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Crippled by crutches: Lawsuit against 2 LAPD officers nets acquitted murder...
Photo via Pixabay The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a nearly $400,000 settlement for a man who spent 13 months behind bars before being acquitted of murder. Roy Galvan was...
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Bungled investigation? Acquitted murder suspect sues, settles with city for...
Photo via Pixabay A man who was arrested for a homicide 10 years after the crime, and ultimately acquitted, will receive a $550,000 payment approved Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council. Bernard...
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‘Evil,’‘depraved’ killer dumped his boyfriend’s chopped-off head in Griffith...
Griffith Park trail, but not location of any body parts from the story. MyNewsLA.com photo by John Schreiber. The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case of an “evil” and...
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Brutal stabbing murder in Garden Grove: Homeless teen charged
Garden Grove Police Department cruiser. Photo via soupehe.com A 19-year-old transient is scheduled to be arraigned June 30 on a murder charge stemming from the brutal stabbing death of a Santa Ana man...
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Sex triangle, missing body, Fox exec murder: Ex-con drug dealer on trial
Studio executive Gavin Smith. Photo via Wikimedia Commons A spurned husband tracked down his wife and a 20th Century Fox distribution executive during a late-night romantic rendezvous and beat the man...
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Death penalty possible for homeless man charged in deadly Hollywood stabbing
Photo via Pixabay A homeless man was charged Thursday with capital murder for the stabbing death of a man in Hollywood. Alex Conn Vasquez, 23, was ordered to be held without bail while awaiting...
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