Mom tortured, murdered 10-year-old son? Were Abuse Reports Ignored?
Jail cells. Photo via Pixabay Amid assertions of ignored abuses, a Lancaster woman and her boyfriend were charged Friday with the torture and murder of her 10-year-old son, who died last week a day...
View ArticleMother, Boyfriend Charged With Murder, Torture of 10-Year-Old Boy
A Lancaster woman and her boyfriend were charged Friday with the torture and murder of her 10-year-old son, who died a day after authorities were summoned to the home. Heather Maxine Barron, 28, and...
View ArticleMother, Boyfriend Charged With Murder, Torture of 10-Year-Old Boy
A Lancaster woman and her boyfriend were charged Friday with the torture and murder of her 10-year-old son, who died a day after authorities were summoned to the home. Heather Maxine Barron, 28, and...
View ArticleAppeals Court Upholds Death Sentence in 1997 Compton Double Murder
An appeals court Monday upheld death sentences for two gang members, who were both convicted of a double murder during an attempted robbery in the summer of 1997. Attorneys for Joseph Mora and Ruben...
View ArticleNewport Beach Police To Mark 45th Anniversary of Girl’s Murder
Newport Beach police will release a snapshot of the suspected killer of an 11-year-old girl Friday on the 45th anniversary of her unsolved abduction and murder. Linda Ann O’Keefe, who lived in Corona...
View ArticleLove Triangle Murder: Woman Gets 26 Years for Killing Married Boyfriend
An example of a handgun, not the one in the story. By lifesizepotato from San Antonio, TX (Delta AR Top Gun) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAn Antelope Valley woman convicted of her married...
View ArticleHemet Woman Charged With Murder for Husband’s Shooting Death
A woman who allegedly gunned down her husband at their Hemet home, then attempted to make a run for the border, was charged Friday with murder. Beatriz Navarrete, 42, was taken into custody in Imperial...
View ArticleWestminster Man Faces Vehicular Murder Charge
A man pleaded not guilty Monday on a murder charge stemming from a crash last fall in Fountain Valley that killed a 25-year-old woman. Jonathan Truong St. Thomas, 24, of Westminster was charged with a...
View ArticleSuspect ID’d in Santa Monica Attempted Murder, Faces Extradition
Santa Monica police Wednesday identified a suspect in a 2016 attempted murder and three Southland home-invasion robberies, and said the man is expected to face extradition from Philadelphia, where he...
View ArticleSuspect ID’d in Santa Monica Attempted Murder, Faces Extradition
Santa Monica police Wednesday identified a suspect in a 2016 attempted murder and three Southland home-invasion robberies, and said the man is expected to face extradition from Philadelphia, where he...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder in Palm Springs DriveBy Shooting
A man who fired on three people in a car-to-car shooting in Palm Springs that triggered a short police pursuit pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted murder, evading arrest and weapons counts and was...
View ArticleDeliberations in Shotgun Murder Trial to Continue Monday
Jurors did not reach a verdict Friday in the trial of a 22-year-old Canyon Lake man accused of fatally shooting his best friend in what the prosecution argued was a case of intimate feelings gone sour,...
View ArticleDeliberations in Shotgun Murder Trial to Continue Monday
Jurors completed their first full day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict in the trial of a 22-year-old Canyon Lake man charged in the shooting death of a close friend in what the...
View ArticleJury Gets Murder Case Against Former PV High School Student
A prosecutor urged jurors Friday to convict an 18-year-old former Palos Verdes High School student of first-degree murder for driving the getaway car in a gang-related shooting in South Los Angeles...
View ArticleMan Charged with Trying to Murder Wife With Chainsaw
An oft-deported man accused of nearly killing his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three young children in Whittier was charged Monday with seven felonies, including attempted murder and...
View ArticleMan Charged with Trying to Murder Wife With Chainsaw
An oft-deported man accused of nearly killing his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three young children in Whittier was charged Monday with seven felonies, including attempted murder and...
View ArticleMan Charged with Trying to Murder Wife With Chainsaw
An oft-deported man accused of nearly killing his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three young children in Whittier was charged Monday with seven felonies, including attempted murder and...
View ArticleMan Charged with Trying to Murder Wife with Chainsaw
An oft-deported man accused of nearly killing his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three young children in Whittier was charged Monday with seven felonies, including attempted murder and...
View ArticleAttempted Murder Conviction Upheld for Man Who Shot Guard at Palm Springs Club
An appeals court Friday upheld an attempted murder conviction for a Thermal man who shot a security guard after being thrown out of a Palm Springs nightclub. Sheldon Alfred Auclair Jr., 34, was...
View ArticlePalos Verdes High Student Not Guilty of Gang Murder in South LA
Cameron Terrell, a Palos Verdes High School student, was acquitted of first-degree murder. Photo from Facebook. A former student at upscale Palos Verdes High School was acquitted Monday of a...
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