&#8220;Family Feud&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-charged-in-wifes-murder-had-eerie-answer-on-family-feud-marriage-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contestant</a> Timothy Bliefnick, who gave an eerie answer to a marriage, has been found guilty of breaking into his estranged wife&#8217;s home and murdering her.
A jury in Illinois convicted Bliefnick of two counts of first-degree murder and another of home invasion after he refused to testify in his defense, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12148229/Family-Feud-contestant-guilty-breaking-estranged-wifes-home-shooting-dead.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.
Rebecca &#8220;Becky&#8221; Bliefnick was found dead inside her home in February. The couple, who had three children, had been living apart and were in the process of getting divorced. Court records show that they had filed restraining orders against each other, the outlet noted.
During the trial, jurors were read a text Becky sent to her sister, Sarah Reilly, warning that if anything should happen to her, Tim would be the number one &#8220;person of interest.&#8221;
&#8220;I am putting this in writing that I&#8217;m fearful he will somehow harm me, come after me, or will try to [do] something to me that takes me away from the kids or the kids away from me,&#8221; the message read.
Becky&#8217;s family released a statement calling the verdict justice and said their loved one &#8220;was robbed of her life in the most hateful, cowardly and cruel way.&#8221;
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A &quot;Family Feud&quot; contestant gave prosecutors a big clue in their case against him for allegedly murdering his wife &#8230; his response to the &quot;biggest mistake you made at your wedding.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FB8aNpZFHy">https://t.co/FB8aNpZFHy</a>
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&#8220;Her boys were robbed of a loving, devoted mother,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;I was robbed of my sister and best friend. My parents were robbed of their daughter, and as a parent myself, I cannot imagine a greater torture.&#8221;
&#8220;Becky was a niece, an aunt and a cousin; a friend, a colleague and a caregiver,&#8221; it added. &#8220;All those who love her carry heavy heartache in the wake of this tragedy.&#8221;
The family&#8217;s statement concluded by saying they were prioritizing raising Becky&#8217;s three children.
&#8220;While life cannot be normal in the ways it once was, such love and support does help restore the belief that the world does, in fact, have more good than evil,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;As they go forward with the certain truth that their father murdered their mother, we ask that you keep Becky&#8217;s three, incredible boys in your prayers.&#8221;
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In 2020, Bliefnick appeared on the popular game show and said that the biggest mistake at his wedding was getting married.
During the show, host Steve Harvey read the question, &#8220;Whats&#8217; the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Honey, I love you,&#8221; as he directed his response toward his wife, then said, &#8220;But &#8216;I do.'&#8221;
Bliefnick then wanted to make sure he clarified his answer when it drew a reaction from the audience, claiming that he wasn&#8217;t talking about his own marriage.
&#8220;Not my mistake,&#8221; Timothy replied. &#8220;Not my mistake. I love my wife. I&#8217;m gonna get in trouble for that, aren&#8217;t I?&#8221;
It was then revealed that &#8220;I Do&#8221; was the second most popular answer. The show was taped in 2019 and appeared on air in 2020.

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A mother and father were arrested after their 3-month-old daughter was found dead Sunday night among trash in a wooded area near Yankee Stadium.
During Damion Comager’s arraignment on Wednesday, prosecutors alleged that the pair dressed their daughter and placed her in a stroller so they could wheel her out of their Bronx shelter without anyone noticing she was dead, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/parents-of-infant-dumped-in-nyc-snuck-her-out-after-she-was-dead-prosecutors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Comager, 23, was arraigned on charges of murder, manslaughter, and concealment of a human corpse.
Comager was at the 44th precinct on Monday, Fox 5 <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/bronx-baby-found-in-woods-near-homeless-shelter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, and told reporters as he left: “I love my daughter. I’m sorry. It was a mistake.”
Prosecutors allege that Comager shook the infant, causing her death, and then worked with his girlfriend, 20-year-old Ivana Paolozzi, to dump her remains in a wooded area. Comager’s father, Donald, reportedly told police that his son had shaken the infant. He then panicked, resulting in the gruesome stroller walk.
“Both defendants changed her diaper, placed her in a onesie and a hat, wrapped her in a blanket, and placed her in the stroller,” Assistant District Attorney Serena Newell said in court on Wednesday, according to the Post.
Newell reportedly told Judge Matthew Bondy that surveillance video showed the pair with the stroller containing their dead daughter, Genevieve Rozzlyn Comager.
“The defendant pushed that stroller containing Genevieve’s corpse out of the shelter where they were living,” Newell added, “successfully prompting no inspection or questions from the shelter staff.”
The couple then “placed their daughter Genevieve’s body into a garbage bag and disposed of said garbage bag and the baby stroller into a wooded area amongst massive trash,” Newell said.
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It was Comager’s father who called the police, he told Fox 5.
&#8220;It’s difficult you know. That was my first son my first son my first born and that’s my first grand baby, and I don’t have none of them right now,” the elder Comager said, according to Fox 5.
Comager appeared in court wearing a black T-shirt and his dreadlocks in a ponytail, the Post reported. He said nothing except to whisper to his attorney. Comager was held without bail and must return to court on Friday.
In contrast, Paolozzi was charged only with concealment of a human corpse, tampering with evidence, and obstructing a governmental administration. She was arraigned after Comager and released with monitoring, as her charges make her ineligible for bail due to New York’s controversial 2019 bail reform law.
In court, ADA Newell argued that Paolozzi “poses a significant flight risk” since she holds a Swiss passport and is in the U.S. on an expired visa.
Paolozzi is alleged to have lied to city Administration for Children’s Services investigators on Sunday about her daughter’s whereabouts.
“Ivana Paolozzi stated that the defendants and their daughter, Genevieve Comager, were all alive, safe and had relocated to Louisiana,” said the criminal complaint against her, according to the Post.
Baby Genevieve, however, had already been dead for two weeks, according to prosecutors.

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On October 31, 1969, two police officers in St. Petersburg, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a>, found a black steamer trunk in a wooded area behind a restaurant.
When they opened the trunk, they found a woman’s body wrapped in a large plastic bag. The woman had visible injuries to her head and appeared to have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">strangled</a> with a man’s Western-style bolo tie. She was wearing only a pajama top, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StPetePD/posts/pfbid02ECwX3MQgW9RoDUGTDmtBCxv4BcWx46zHrdoYUcPmmZUeRddrA1MRuXwCNFNu3Amnl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the St. Petersburg Police Department</a>.
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The woman was buried under the name “Jane Doe,” and for nearly 54 years, no one knew her real name. Her body was exhumed on February 10, 2010. Police regularly tried to learn her identity using teeth and bone samples, but the samples were too degraded. She remained unidentified even after she was featured on television programs, in articles, and at cold case conferences.
It wasn’t until earlier this year when investigators had a break. St. Petersburg Cold Case Detective Wally Pavelski found a sample of the woman’s hair and skin that had been taken at her original autopsy back in 1969. Pavelski sent the samples to Ortham Labs in Texas, which has aided law enforcement by identifying cold case victims through familial DNA. In April, Ortham developed a DNA profile of the woman, which was used to find family members who provided DNA profiles to confirm Jane Doe’s identity.
Her name is Sylvia June Atherton, and she was 41 years old when she died. Pavelski tracked down one of her children, a daughter named Syllen Gates who lived in California, who was just nine years old when her mother disappeared.
Syllen told investigators that her mother left their home in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, Stuart Brown, 5-year-old daughter Kimberly Anne Brown, adult son Gary Sullivan, adult daughter Donna, and her husband David Lindhurst. The group said they were moving to Chicago. Syllen and her 11-year-old brother were left with their father, Atherton&#8217;s ex-husband. At some point, Gary Sullivan returned to Tucson to live with the family that remained.
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Det. Pavelski soon learned that Stuart Brown, Sylvia’s husband, died in 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Court records didn’t mention Sylvia.
While all this is known, it is still unknown who killed Sylvia Atherton or how she ended up in Florida. The whereabouts of Donna and Kimberly, who left with their mother for Chicago, are also unknown.

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She Was Found Dead In A Trunk Nearly 54 Years Ago. Now, Florida’s Longest Cold Case Victim Has A Name.

Florida's 'Trunk Lady' Gets Identified Nearly 54 Years After She Was Found

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Police have arrested a suspect nearly four months after a New Jersey Republican councilwoman was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunned down</a> in her car as she was nearing her home.
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, was arrested and charged in the murder of 30-year-old Eunice Dwumfour, who was shot and killed on the evening of February 1. Dwumfour and Bynum knew each other from working together at Champions Royal Assembly, a Nigeria-based prosperity gospel church in Newark, police said, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nj-councilwoman-shot-dead-eunice-dwumfour-sayrevile-murdered/13320349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC 7.
“This was a very complex, extensive case with painstaking police work every single moment until today and it will continue after today,” Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nj-councilwoman-shot-dead-eunice-dwumfour-sayrevile-murdered/13320349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference attended by Dwumfour’s family members. “The murder has shaken the community and no arrest will bring back the late councilwoman.”
Bynum was taken into custody in Chesapeake City, Virginia, where he lived, and he will be extradited to New Jersey, where the suspect will be held at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional facility until his pre-trial hearing. The suspect was caught on surveillance footage fleeing the scene after the shooting, according to Ciccone. The prosecutor also said that Bynum’s phone indicated that he had traveled from Virginia to New Jersey at the time of Dwumfour’s murder.
The suspect allegedly searched online for information about Dwumfour’s church and the town where she lived, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/arrest-made-in-murder-of-nj-councilwoman-eunice-dwumfour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Bynum is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose.
Eyewitnesses said they saw the gunman run toward Garden State Parkway after firing multiple times into Dwumfour’s vehicle. The councilwoman’s vehicle traveled around 100 feet before hitting two parked cars. Ciccone did not provide any motive for why Bynum allegedly targeted the Republican councilwoman.
The case went silent for months as authorities held no press conferences, and the prosecutor’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-office-seeks-to-block-records-on-gop-councilwomans-murder-from-going-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> an injunction to block news outlets from obtaining important information about the investigation. In March, the councilwoman’s parents expressed frustration at the lack of developments from the investigation into their daughter&#8217;s murder. The family’s attorney also said the lack of info from authorities on the case was “mystifying and troubling.”
Dwumfour was elected to the Borough of Sayreville City Council in an upset victory over her Democratic opponent in 2021. She was also a business analyst and part-time EMT and was heavily involved in her church.
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The Republican councilwoman was the oldest of five children born to a Ghanaian family. In December, Dwumfour celebrated getting married to a Nigerian pastor. She was also the mother of an 11-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

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Arrest Made After Months Of Silence In NJ GOP Councilwoman’s Murder

Arrest Made After Months Of Silence In NJ GOP Councilwoman's Murder

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The families of two of the four victims slain in the University of Idaho killings last year reportedly signaled they support the death penalty for the 28-year-old man accused of the quadruple murder.
The suspect, who The Daily Wire will not name per company policy, was indicted on charges including first-degree murder six weeks after four friends and college students — Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21 — were stabbed to death on November 13, 2022.
Shanon Gray, the attorney representing Goncalves&#8217; family, told <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/idaho-college-killings/idaho-victims-families-seeking-death-penalty-for-accused-killer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a> that the prosecutor on the case would &#8220;meet with all the families individually and then make a decision based on that.&#8221;
“So, the Goncalves family obviously supports the death penalty in this case,” said Gray.
Gray said the families plan to pursue legal action against the city of Moscow over the next two years “seeking clarity on the state’s intention to pursue the death penalty,” the outlet reported.
“They want justice for the deaths of their daughter and Maddie (Madison Mogen), and Xana (Kernodle) and Ethan (Chapin),” Gray said on “NewsNation Prime.” “It’s part of the process. You know, the tort claims notice that I filed is just standard procedure. That’s something that has to be filed to protect the interests not only of the families but the victims and the community.”
The suspect was indicted two weeks ago on charges including first-degree murder and appeared in court on Monday for his arraignment.
He reportedly stood silently when the judge asked him to enter his plea, so the judge entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. With pleas set, prosecutors now have 60 days to decide whether to pursue the death penalty.
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His public defender also asked the judge to set a trial date in October.
Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a law earlier this year that would make the state the fifth in the nation to authorize a firing squad as a method of execution if no lethal injection drugs are available, according to the nonprofit <a href="https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/idaho-steps-closer-to-using-the-firing-squad-for-executions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Death Penalty Information Center</a>.
“The law gives the director of the Idaho Department of Correction up to five days after a death warrant is issued to determine if lethal injection is available. If it is declared unavailable, the execution will be performed by firing squad,” the center’s website reads.
The law goes into effect on July 1.
Ashe Schow contributed to this report.

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Attorney Says University Of Idaho Victims’ Families Want Death Penalty For Accused Killer: Report

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A Florida deputy was killed in the line of duty allegedly by an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reps-gooden-jordan-demand-answers-on-federal-funding-of-illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrant</a>, Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ron-desantis-officially-enters-2024-presidential-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL) said Friday. 
Sergeant Michael Kunovich, a 25-year veteran of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, died following an altercation with Vergilio Aguilar Mendez on the evening of May 19, <a href="https://twitter.com/SJSOPIO/status/1659944447113584642">according</a> to the sheriff’s office. Kunovich reportedly attempted to pat down the suspect for weapons when Mendez attempted to flee and a six-minute struggle ensued. After the suspect was finally disarmed and detained, Kunovich collapsed and was later pronounced dead at the hospital, authorities said. 
“Sergeant Michael Kunovich was killed in the line of duty by an illegal immigrant who took advantage of our open border. Our prayers go out to the Kunovich family and the entire [St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office] community during this time,” DeSantis said. “Joe Biden’s reckless immigration policies are deadly – it is no way to run a country.”
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Sergeant Michael Kunovich was killed in the line of duty by an illegal immigrant who took advantage of our open border. Our prayers go out to the Kunovich family and the entire <a href="https://twitter.com/SJSOPIO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SJSOPIO</a> community during this time.
Joe Biden’s reckless immigration policies are deadly – it is no…
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While resisting arrest and fighting on the ground for six minutes and 19 seconds, the suspect allegedly attempted to grab the sergeant’s taser. After being handcuffed, authorities said that Mendez “armed himself with a pocket knife,” but deputies forcefully removed the weapon. 
Kunovich collapsed after the struggle, and St. Johns County Fire and Rescue and Flagler Health+ personnel performed life-saving measures on the deputy, but he died at the hospital. It remains unclear how exactly Kunovich died. 
Mendez has been charged with resisting with violence and felony murder. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said that Homeland Security Investigations was assisting in verifying the suspect’s identity and immigration status. 
As the border crisis worsens under President Joe Biden&#8217;s leadership, Americans are becoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mommy-theres-bad-guys-at-my-window-border-patrol-wife-describes-dangers-chaos-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more concerned</a> about the threat Biden&#8217;s border policy poses to the country&#8217;s safety. Earlier this month, a man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-serial-killer-caught-in-california-is-illegal-alien-who-came-into-u-s-under-obama-report">allegedly murdered</a> two people and attempted to kill a third was arrested in California and identified as an illegal immigrant. In late February, Republican leaders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-leaders-target-biden-admin-after-illegal-immigrant-allegedly-strangles-murders-young-autistic-woman">targeted</a> the Biden administration for the ongoing border crisis and the threats it poses to public safety, opening an investigation into the murder of a young autistic woman by an illegal immigrant in the MS-13 gang.
“Criminal aliens and gang members exploit the U.S. immigration system to harm Americans,” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) wrote in letters to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. “The Biden Administration’s border and immigration policies only increase the likelihood that those criminal aliens will successfully enter and remain in the U.S.”

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On July 13, 1966, a man broke into a Chicago, Illinois townhouse where nursing students lived. Inside, he found three nurses, and, using a gun and a knife, forced them into a bedroom where three other nurses already were.
The man used torn strips from bedsheets to tie up the six women’s hands and feet, using nautical knots. By midnight, three more nurses returned home and were tied up as well, <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-mass-murderer-leaves-eight-women-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the History Channel</a>. 
In the early hours of the morning on July 14, the man robbed the women and began taking them one by one into different rooms of the house, where he stabbed and strangled them to death. One woman was raped before she was killed. The other women, still scared and tied up in one of the bedrooms, could hear the muffled screams of their roommates as they were murdered.
One student, Corazon Amurao, hid under a bed, and was lucky to survive when the murderer lost track of how many women remained in the house. She waited until 6 a.m. before coming out from under the bed, and then crawled onto a second-story ledge and called for help. When police arrived, Amurao provided a detailed description of the attacker, and by the next morning, the sketch of the man believed responsible was on the front page of every local newspaper.
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On the night of July 15, Richard Speck was drinking with a drifter named Claude Lunsford and another man near the Starr Hotel, where Speck and Lunsford were staying at the time. The next day, Lunsford saw the sketch in the newspaper and recognized Speck. So, he called the police, but the police didn’t respond.
Speck, apparently seeing his own face in the newspapers, slashed his right wrist and left elbow on July 16 in an attempt to kill himself. The hotel desk clerk called in an emergency around midnight that night, and Spec was taken to Cook County Hospital in the wee hours of July 17. There, Dr. LeRoy Smith recognized Speck from his “Born To Raise Hell” tattoo described in the newspapers about the killings. The police arrived and arrested Speck.
At the time Speck was arrested, the landmark <a href="https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-miranda-v-arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miranda</a> decision had just been made, with law enforcement offices across the country unsure how to proceed. Because of this, Speck wasn’t questioned until three weeks after his arrest.
Speck had a lengthy criminal record prior to the murders of eight nurses in Chicago, beginning in Dallas, Texas. He started drinking at the age of 12, and was first arrested in 1955 at the age of 13 for trespassing. Over the next eight years, he racked up dozens more arrests for misdemeanors. He was in jail for disturbing the peace when his daughter, Robbie Lyn Speck, was born in 1962.
In 1963, when Speck was 21, he was sentenced to three years in prison for forgery and burglary, but he was paroled 16 months later in 1965. He immediately returned to committing crimes, getting arrested a week after his release for attacking a woman with a carving knife, but ran away when the woman screamed. He was convicted this time of aggravated assault and sentenced to 16 months to run concurrently with his parole violation.
Six months later, an error led to Speck being released early, and he managed to work three months as a truck driver for a meat company before getting fired. In January 1966, Speck’s estranged wife, whom he married when she was 16 after knowing her for three weeks, filed for divorce. Also in January, Speck stabbed a man during a fight at a bar. His aggravated assault charge was reduced to disturbing the peace, allowing him to pay a $10 fine and spend three days in jail for failing to pay it.
In March 1966, Speck bought an old car and robbed a grocery store for 70 cartons of cigarettes. He sold the cigarettes out of the trunk of the car in the grocery store’s parking lot before abandoning the vehicle. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but Speck’s sister took him to the bus station to board a train for Chicago, Illinois.
He bounced around between family members in the early days of his life in Chicago, before moving across the state into a hotel in Monmouth, IL. While bar hopping in nearby Gulfport, Speck and some acquaintances were detained after Speck allegedly threatened a man in a bar with a knife.
In early April 1966, a 65-year-old woman was raped and robbed and a 32-year-old woman was found dead in an empty hog house behind Frank’s Place, a tavern owned by Speck’s brother-in-law. Speck was briefly questioned by police and he was asked to stay in Monmouth for further questioning, but when police showed up to question him again, he was gone. They found items stolen from the 65-year-old woman’s house and two other burglaries.
<div id="attachment_558729" style="width: 395px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-558729" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-558729 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-385x576.jpg" alt="" width="385" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-385x576.jpg 385w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-768x1150.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-515501958-1-scaled.jpg 1709w" sizes="(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px" />(Original Caption) Richard Speck, accused of the murder of eight Chicago Nurses. Bettmann / Contributor. Getty Images.</div>
Speck then moved in with his sister in Northwest Chicago and began working as a Merchant Marine, but his first voyage was cut short after he developed appendicitis. When he was released from the hospital, he returned to working on a ship until he was dismissed after fighting with one of the boat’s officers.
After failing to find work on another ship, Speck left his sister’s house and moved into a hotel on July 13, 1966, where he began drinking. After drinking at several bars, he attacked a 53-year-old woman at knifepoint before taking her to his room, raping her, and robbing her. Among the items he stole was a handgun. He left her house and ate dinner, returning to drink at the hotel bar until 10:20 p.m. before walking to the nurses’ townhouse and murdering Gloria Davy, Suzanne Farris, Merlita Gargullo, Mary Ann Jordan, Patricia Matusek, Valentina Pasion, Nina Jo Schmale, and Pamela Wilkening.
Speck claimed he didn’t remember killing the nursing students, but he had previously confessed to the crime while he was in the Cook County Hospital following his suicide attempt. The doctor to whom he confessed, however, couldn’t testify because Speck had been sedated when he made the statements.
Speck’s trial began on April 3, 1967. Corazon Amurao, the surviving nursing student, identified Speck as the killer, and fingerprints found at the scene were matched to Speck. After just 49 minutes of deliberation, a jury found Speck guilty and recommended the death penalty.
<div id="attachment_558719" style="width: 425px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-558719" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-558719 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-415x576.jpg" alt="" width="415" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-415x576.jpg 415w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-216x300.jpg 216w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-768x1067.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-1105x1536.jpg 1105w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/05/GettyImages-517318924-scaled.jpg 1842w" sizes="(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px" />(Original Caption) Corazon Amarao, 23, Philippine exchange student and lone survivor of mass murder in which 8 other student nurses were slain. Bettmann / Contributor. Getty Images.</div>
On June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Speck’s death penalty due to jurors being excluded who did not support capital punishment. Speck was resentenced to eight consecutive sentenced of 50 to 150 years for a total of 400 to 1,200 years in prison.
In 1978, Speck publicly confessed to the murders while speaking to a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
In 1991, he died of a heart attack at the age of 49.

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Brian Laundrie’s mom’s notorious “burn after reading” letter she sent to her son before he committed suicide has finally been made public.
Roberta Laundrie <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petito-case-brian-laundries-mother-promised-son-shovel-garbage-bag-jailhouse-cake-love-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that she wrote the letter to Brian before he and Gabby Petito left for their cross-country trip that began in June 2021, which ended several months later when Petito was murdered and Brian returned home. In a previous affidavit, Roberta said she had written the letter “to reach out to Brian while he and I were experiencing a difficult period in our relationship.”
In the letter, which was made public on Wednesday, Roberta tells Brian: “If you’re in jail I will bake a cake and put a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body. I will show up with a shovel and garbage bags.”
She added: “If you fly to the moon, I will be watching the skies for your re-entry. If you say you hate my guts, I’ll get new guts. Remember that love is a verb, not a noun. It’s not a thing it’s not words. It is actions. Watch people’s actions to know if they love you – not their words.”
Roberta also said she wrote the letter, in which she included the phrase “burn after reading” after reading a book that Petito had given Brian called “Burn After Writing” and encouraged readers to write letters to themselves before burning them.
Even though the letter was allegedly written before Petito was murdered and Brian confessed to murdering her, it has been ruled as admissible evidence in the Petito family’s lawsuit against the Laundrie family in which they claim the Laundries knew their son had killed the Petito’s daughter and tried to help him evade capture.
Laundrie’s family has said they have “no regrets” for the way they acted following Petito’s disappearance.
Laundrie, 23, is believed to have committed suicide after he went missing following the murder of his fiancée <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gabby-petito" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabby Petito</a>, whom Laundrie admitted to killing, according to the FBI. His remains were found in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in October 2021, and his family’s attorney released the notebook found with his body in June 2022.
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“I ended her life,” Laundrie wrote, according to <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/Gabby-note-better.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a copy</a> of the notebook <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petito-murder-brian-laundries-notebook-confession-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusively</a> provided to Fox News. “I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked. I was in shock.”
Laundrie went on to claim that Petito, who was 22 when Laundrie allegedly strangled her to death, had injured herself in a fall while they were visiting Wyoming and that he killed her to take “away her pain.”
Pat Reilly, the attorney for Petito’s family, <a href="https://people.com/crime/brian-laundrie-notebook-confession-killing-gabby-petito/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> People that Laundrie’s claims about killing Petito out of mercy due to an accident were “nonsense.”
“He is writing a letter as though he wants people to feel sorry for him,” Reilly told the outlet.

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The parents of the man accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing</a> four University of Idaho <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">students</a> last November have been called to testify before a grand jury in Pennsylvania.
A source close to the case <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/idaho-college-killings/kohbergers-parents-testify-grand-jury/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation’s Brian Entin that the parents have been called to speak to a grand jury in the Dana Smithers case. Smithers was 45 years old when she went missing in May 2022 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, where the Idaho suspect lived with his parents at the time.
The source also told the outlet that the suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, has a solid alibi and likely had nothing to do with Smithers’ disappearance. The grand jury, however, is continuing its proceedings and the investigation into Smithers’ case is ongoing.
The suspect was indicted last week on charges including first-degree murder and appeared in court on Monday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/murder-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-of-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for his arraignment</a>. The suspect wore a bullet-proof vest under his orange jumpsuit, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12111149/Bryan-Kohberger-court-appearance-LIVE-Idaho-murder-suspect-enter-plea-four-counts-murder.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
He reportedly stood silently when the judge asked him to enter his plea, so the judge entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. With pleas set, prosecutors now have 60 days to decide whether to pursue the death penalty. His public defender also asked the judge to set a trial date in October.
The suspect was arrested six weeks after four friends, Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, were stabbed to death on November 13, 2022.
Calling the suspect’s parents before a grand jury appears to be part of an attempt by police to see whether the suspect is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-investigating-whether-accused-idaho-killer-is-responsible-for-other-murders-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responsible for other unsolved crimes</a>.
Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer previously <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/idaho-college-killings/bryan-kohberger-other-deaths-pennsylvania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that police could look at the suspect for similar murders in Pennsylvania.
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“If they are looking at something very specific that’s unsolved with these parameters, they’re probably looking in the right direction,” she told the outlet. “I think it is a signature-type crime.”
Defense attorney Mark Geragos told the outlet that it’s common for police to link suspects like this to other unsolved crimes.
“In virtually every high profile case that is a circumstantial evidence murder case, you almost inevitably hear of some other unsolved murder and law enforcement looks to see if they can link whoever the suspect is,” Geragos told NewsNation. “For one thing I suppose it fills a vacuum — ‘Why did somebody do this when you don’t have a motive?’ That is the most obvious explanation.”
More than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-60-warrants-have-been-served-in-connection-with-the-university-of-idaho-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60 warrants</a> have also been served to major companies and banks in connection to the murders, including Amazon, DoorDash, Reddit, and the owner of dating sites such as Tinder and OkCupid. The contents of the warrants are “sealed and redacted” as part of the murder case against the 28-year-old suspect.
Monroe County First Assistant Michael Mancuso <a href="https://www.brctv13.com/news/local-news/29279-monroe-county-officials-share-new-details-about-idaho-murder-suspect-s-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> BRC 13 that when the suspect was arrested, he “was found awake in the kitchen area dressed in shorts and a shirt [and] wearing latex medical type gloves and apparently was taking his personal trash and putting it into … separate zip lock baggies.”
Mancuso implied that the suspect was removing the trash to conceal his DNA. Investigators had been surveilling the home for weeks prior to the suspect’s arrest, and during that time, they searched the trash cans outside.
“A trash pull that was done days before recovered DNA profiles but not from him, only from his family members,” Mancuso told the outlet.

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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh blasted the dishonest media&#8217;s obsession with stoking racial division by reporting on a false story about a pregnant hospital worker accused of stealing a black man&#8217;s bike instead of covering the murder of white handyman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-suspects-killed-handyman-because-they-wanted-to-kill-a-white-person-police-detective" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence Herr</a> by two black suspects in Louisiana.
&#8220;The Matt Walsh Show&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1660732545946865667?s=20">podcast host</a> on Monday gave details about what happened last month to the 66-year-old handyman who he said was working on installing a mailbox when he was shot in the back and killed. That story, Walsh noted, was not one that was widely reported in the mainstream media.
Walsh said police arrested two black men – Taj Matthews, 23, and Maurice Holmes, 25 in the murder. A lead detective with the Kenner Police Department testified recently that one of the suspects told police &#8220;they wanted to go out and kill a white guy,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/kenner-murder-crime-handyman-killed-while-on-rounds/289-4365dbfd-4ad1-4978-b7b2-03979c86faae">4WWL</a>.
&#8220;Maurice Holmes and Taj Matthews were black and Lawrence Herr was white, so they executed him,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;Now, these men, they didn&#8217;t know Lawrence Herr or they didn&#8217;t get into some kind of altercation with him that day.&#8221;
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&#8220;He didn&#8217;t shout the N-word at them while they drove past,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Not that that would justify it. They just decided to take a day off work to go hunting for white people. And so they did.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, no mainstream media outlet in the country has covered this story,&#8221; Walsh continued, noting he&#8217;s not seen it on Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, or any other major outlets. However, he said the one you are hearing about in the media is the false story involving a pregnant hospital worker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawyer-for-woman-accused-of-racism-over-bike-incident-threatens-lawsuits-as-media-others-scramble" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Comrie</a> — who was accused of stealing a black man&#8217;s bike.
&#8220;Instead they spent the past week going wall to wall with an obviously fake story about a pregnant white physician&#8217;s assistant in New York City who supposedly decided to, out of nowhere one day, terrorize some black people,&#8221; the host added. &#8220;And yet no media outlets did any research or investigation into this version of events. We were supposed to simply accept it at face value, and many people did. And they did so based entirely on this out-of-context video.&#8221;
Walsh noted that the headline in the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/nyc-hospital-karen-on-leave-after-viral-video/">New York Post</a> read, &#8220;NYC Hospital &#8216;Karen&#8217; On Leave After Being Accused Of Trying To Take Black Man&#8217;s Bike In Viral Video.&#8221;
&#8220;The article goes on to mock Sarah Comrie, saying that she, quote, appears to start crying theatrically in the video,&#8221; the DW host said. &#8220;Now, this is the New York Post. We&#8217;re talking about, which broke the Hunter Biden laptop story. They&#8217;re capable of doing real investigative journalism on occasion, and sometimes they do.&#8221;
&#8220;But what they did here is use a racial slur in a headline to spread an obvious lie about a pregnant hospital worker,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And yes, Karen is a racial slur&#8230;Even an article in the BBC from 2020 acknowledges that the Karen meme reference is, quote, a specific type of middle-class white woman.&#8221;
&#8220;And it became popular, quote, as a way for people of color, particularly black Americans, to satirize this type of white person,&#8221; Walsh continued. &#8220;In other words, it&#8217;s a derogatory label that one race of people uses to describe members of another race, otherwise known as a racial slur.&#8221;
The host said Comrie&#8217;s attorney has provided the receipt to prove that in fact, she was the owner of the bike and not the other way around. &#8220;Sara Comrie rented the bike. That&#8217;s not in dispute. The teenagers apparently swapped the QR codes so that she would unlock the bike that they were sitting on, which they could then steal,&#8221; Walsh said.
&#8220;What&#8217;s interesting is why anyone, journalists or otherwise pretended to believe this story for so long,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Why would anyone pretend to believe again that a white, middle-aged woman who just got off a 12-hour shift at a hospital tried to steal a bike from black teenagers?&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason the media has to lie about the stories of Sarah Comrie and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-charged-for-allegedly-filing-false-police-report-on-man-he-doesnt-support-charges-wont-cooperate-in-case-against-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Cooper</a>, not to mention the most egregious recent example, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-breaks-his-silence-following-the-death-of-jordan-neely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny,</a>&#8221; he added. &#8220;And the reason is simple: it&#8217;s because they can&#8217;t find videos and news stories of white people going out and hunting black people. It just doesn&#8217;t happen. They lie and pretend it happens all the time. But it&#8217;s not true. And the people spreading this narrative, they know that it isn&#8217;t true.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-went-viral-for-calling-police-on-black-man-in-park-sues-former-employer">Woman Who Went Viral For Calling Police On Black Man In Park Sues Former Employer</a>

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The 28-year-old man accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing</a> four University of Idaho <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">students</a> has pleaded not guilty to the crime.
The suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, was indicted last week on charges including first-degree murder and appeared in court on Monday for his arraignment. The suspect wore a bullet-proof vest under his orange jumpsuit, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12111149/Bryan-Kohberger-court-appearance-LIVE-Idaho-murder-suspect-enter-plea-four-counts-murder.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
He reportedly stood silently when the judge asked him to enter his plea, so the judge entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. With pleas set, prosecutors now have 60 days to decide whether to pursue the death penalty. His public defender also asked the judge to set a trial date in October.
The suspect was arrested six weeks after four friends, Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, were stabbed to death on November 13, 2022.
Goncalves’ family is now challenging a court order saying they cannot speak publicly about the case, KXLY <a href="https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/crime/goncalves-family-to-challenge-gag-order-surrounding-u-of-i-murders-case-against-bryan-kohberger/article_bd3b3814-6f8e-5149-8f88-4e311280f5b2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. This outlet, along with others, has also challenged the gag order with no success.
In April, an ID <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/id-connected-to-university-of-idaho-murders-found-in-accused-killers-car-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">belonging to someone</a> at the house where four students were killed was found in the suspect’s car, according to <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/idaho-college-killings/bryan-kohberger-license-found-idaho-killings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a>. Police haven’t confirmed who the ID belongs to due to the gag order Goncalves’ family is now challenging.
Some information has been released, including a search warrant that was unsealed earlier this year. The search warrant stated that police had seized IDs from the 28-year-old man suspected of the murders but have not provided additional details.
“It’s a big deal. That is a smoking license,” retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo (&#8220;CUOMO&#8221;) in early April. “Just like the sheath was a smoking sheath found next to Maddie with his DNA on that clasp, it’s the same thing in this situation. Why would he have an ID related to one of those people from that house?”
More than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-60-warrants-have-been-served-in-connection-with-the-university-of-idaho-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60 warrants</a> have also been served to major companies and banks in connection to the murders, including Amazon, DoorDash, Reddit, and the owner of dating sites such as Tinder and OkCupid. The contents of the warrants are “sealed and redacted” as part of the murder case against the suspect.
Monroe County First Assistant Michael Mancuso <a href="https://www.brctv13.com/news/local-news/29279-monroe-county-officials-share-new-details-about-idaho-murder-suspect-s-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> BRC 13 that when the suspect was arrested, he “was found awake in the kitchen area dressed in shorts and a shirt [and] wearing latex medical type gloves and apparently was taking his personal trash and putting it into … separate zip lock baggies.”
Mancuso implied that the suspect was removing the trash to conceal his DNA. Investigators had been surveilling the home for weeks prior to the suspect’s arrest, and during that time, they searched the trash cans outside.
“A trash pull that was done days before recovered DNA profiles but not from him, only from his family members,” Mancuso told the outlet.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-police-collected-when-they-arrested-the-accused-idaho-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An unsealed search warrant</a> also listed items taken from the suspect’s parents&#8217; home at the time of his arrest, including a flashlight, four medical-style gloves, a T-shirt, a Washington State Cougars sweatshirt, a pair of size 13 Nike shoes, as well as Under Armour black socks, shorts, and boxers. Police also collected a cheek swab from the suspect for DNA, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/crime/newly-unsealed-search-warrant-items-bryan-kohberger-had-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Of the items taken, Mancuso said two could be important during the suspect’s trial.
“I would be keen on the shoes, the size of the shoes, comparison to any show impressions that might have been recovered at the scene that sort of thing,” he told BRC 13.
He added that the cheek swab could also play a significant role in court.
“Something that they could compare to the DNA of I believe the snap button for the sheath of the knife,” he said, referring to a knife sheath found at the off-campus residence where the victims were found stabbed to death.

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