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Dad Decapitates Disabled Son, 7

Wanted to make mom 'feel stupid,' Jeremiah Lee Wright tells cops

(Newser) - A Louisiana man decapitated his 7-year-old disabled son with a meat cleaver because he was sick of taking care of him and wanted to make his wife "feel stupid," he told police. Jori Lirette was bludgeoned, decapitated, and dismembered. His father, 30-year-old Jeremiah Lee Wright, said he left...

Family, Friends Say Goodbye to Celina Cass

Fourth-grader remembered at 'celebration of life'

(Newser) - As family and friends wait for answers in the death of 11-year-old Celina Cass , they celebrated the fourth-grader's life last night in a school gymnasium where she used to play basketball. "Evil took a child away, but a message returned," said a reverend, reading from a poem...

Court Papers Tell Chilling Tale of Brooklyn Boy's Death

'I'm famous,' Levi Aron told cops

(Newser) - The Brooklyn man accused of murdering and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky has been declared fit to stand trial. Court papers made public yesterday include Levi Aron's own chilling description of how he kidnapped, killed, and butchered the little boy who got lost on the way home from summer camp...

Psychiatrist Kills Too Fat for 15 Son, Self

13-year-old had just finished year at weight-loss boarding school

(Newser) - A prominent Maryland psychiatrist specializing in women's health shot her 13-year-old son dead before killing herself, police say. The son, Ben Barnhard, had recently completed a year at the boarding school for overweight kids featured in the Style Network show Too Fat for 15, which tracked his loss of...

Stepdad's Truck Seized From Dead Girl's Home

Police cordon off Celina Cass house

(Newser) - Investigators probing the death of 11-year-old Celina Cass have seized a pickup truck belonging to the girl's stepfather. Authorities, who have cordoned off the family's New Hampshire home, have labeled the girl's death suspicious, AP reports. Celina's body was pulled from a river earlier this week,...

Levi Aron Fed Brooklyn Boy Drugs Before Killing

Killer gave Leiby Kletzky muscle relaxers, anti-psychotic drug, Tylenol

(Newser) - Leiby Kletzky was heavily drugged before his killer smothered, then dismembered him, according to a medical examiner. Hardware store clerk Levi Aron allegedly gave the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy a muscle relaxant, painkillers, and quetiapine—an anti-psychotic used to treat schizophrenia, reports NBC . Autopsy results also indicate that Leiby was killed...

Cops Focus on Levi Aron's Living Room

Investigators search for DNA evidence in grisly murder of 8-year-old boy

(Newser) - Police are focusing on the living room in the Brooklyn home of Levi Aron, who is accused of murdering and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Investigators in Hazmat suits pulled a couch, two chairs, and a rug from Aron's home today, reports the New York Post . Cops also removed two...

Brookyn Suspect Tells of Boy's Last Hours

Levi Aron claims he took Leiby Kletzky to wedding before killing him

(Newser) - The man accused of murdering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky has told police that he took the boy to a wedding, let him stay overnight in his home, and left him alone watching TV for a day before he smothered him in a panic. Levi Aron claims he left the boy outside...

Cops: Brooklyn Boy Fought His Killer

Alleged killer Levi Aron has scratches on arm, wrist

(Newser) - Investigators believe an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who was abducted and dismembered may have been tied up and tried to fight off his alleged captor before he was killed, police said today. Levi Aron, the man held in Leiby Kletzky's killing , had scratches on his arms, wrists, and elsewhere on...

Brooklyn Boy's Alleged Killer Had 'Manson Look'

Plus excerpts from Levi Aron's brutal smothering confession

(Newser) - The alleged murderer of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy had a creepy reputation around his neighborhood, locals tell the New York Post . “The parents on the block wouldn't want their kids to go near” Levi Aron, notes one. What’s more, “sometimes he would just get angry out...

Accused 1957 Killer: Train Ticket Proves Nothing

Jack Daniel McCullough says he still has 'iron-clad alibi'

(Newser) - Despite the fact that a recently unearthed, unused train ticket led to the arrest of Jack Daniel McCullough for an unsolved 1957 murder, the 71-year-old is sticking with his original story. "I have an iron-clad alibi," McCullough tells the AP from a Seattle jail. "I did not...

Casey Anthony Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations After Prosecution's Rebuttal
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Jul 4, 2011 12:20 PM CDT

Jury Begins Deliberations on Anthony

Prosecution: Casey's a documented 'liar'

(Newser) - Arguments are over and the jury is out in the Casey Anthony case. But before jurors exited the court, the prosecution offered its final rebuttal to the defense’s arguments . In an hour-long presentation, prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick replayed clips of Casey lying to officials and her parents, calling her...

State: Anthony Chose Life She Wanted Over Caylee

Defense says state never proved the crime beyond a reasonable doubt

(Newser) - Casey Anthony sobbed and glared this morning as the prosecutor painted a picture of her as a devious liar who opted to kill her only child so that she'd be free to go clubbing. "Something needed to be sacrificed, that something was either the life she wanted or...

George Anthony Attempted Suicide 'To Be With Caylee'
George Anthony Attempted Suicide 'To Be With Caylee'
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Jun 29, 2011 2:11 PM CDT

George Anthony Attempted Suicide 'To Be With Caylee'

Casey Anthony's father says he 'failed' his granddaughter

(Newser) - Casey Anthony's father George Anthony says he attempted suicide so he could be with his dead granddaughter Caylee. Struggling to answer through sobbing, Anthony revealed that he still battles suicidal thoughts and mixed beer and pills in an attempt to end his life six weeks after Caylee's remains...

Casey Anthony Trial: Roy Kronk Testifies He Never Touched Caylee's Skull
Meter Reader: I Saw, But Didn't Touch, Caylee's Skull
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Jun 28, 2011 1:50 PM CDT

Meter Reader: I Saw, But Didn't Touch, Caylee's Skull

Roy Kronk's testimony contradict's defense's implications

(Newser) - Casey Anthony's defense team did indeed ask for a mistrial yesterday , citing a court ruling finding Florida's death penalty statute unconstitutional. If granted, Anthony would get an entirely new jury, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Meanwhile, her trial continues, with lots of witnesses called yesterday and today:
  • Roy Kronk:
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Cannibal Killer Gets Life
 Cannibal Killer Gets Life 
Jun 28, 2011 12:03 AM CDT

Cannibal Killer Gets Life

He confesses to eating flesh of one of two teen victims

(Newser) - A German identified only as "Jan O.," who admitted eating the flesh of one of his two teenage victims, has been sentenced to life in prison. The killer, 26, confessed to licking blood from the wound of a 14-year-old girl he murdered and eating her flesh. He had...

Casey Anthony Deemed Competent to Resume Trial

Her lawyers asked for an evaluation over the weekend

(Newser) - Casey Anthony's murder trial resumed today after being abruptly halted Saturday, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Anthony's attorneys filed a motion over the weekend stating that their client "is not competent to aid and assist in her own defense and is incompetent to proceed." But after an...

Afghanistan: Girl, 8, Used as Unwitting Suicide Bomber

Attackers have 'no respect for anything,' says politician

(Newser) - An 8-year-old girl became an unwitting suicide bomber in an attack on police today, according to Afghanistan's interior ministry. Insurgents gave the child a package and told her to bring it to police, detonating the explosives as she neared them. No one else was killed in the attack, reports...

Mom Arraigned in Microwave Death of Baby

Ka Yang claims split personality disorder

(Newser) - A Northern California woman accused of killing her baby in a microwave oven was arraigned yesterday on murder charges that could lead to the death penalty if she is convicted. Prosecutors charged Ka Yang, 29, with one count of murder with the special circumstance that the killing was intentional and...

Judge Fed Up With Both Sides in Casey Anthony Trial

Judge Belvin Perry not happy about delays, threatens exclusion

(Newser) - Judge Belvin Perry is not happy with the prosecution or the defense in the Casey Anthony murder trial, and he cut court short today while threatening both sides with exclusion, which would mean bumping witnesses from the trial. What seemed to set him off: Prosecutor Jeff Ashton asked Perry to...

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