In May, 17-year-old Sincere Williams allegedly stole 14 handguns from a Chicago gun store before he was quickly caught by police.
The owner of Suburban Sporting Goods Guns &amp; Ammo <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/11/melrose-park-gun-shop-owner-says-sincere-williams-burglarized-his-store-months-ago-should-not-have-been-on-street-when-walgreens-murder-happened/">told</a> CBS 2 that Williams attempted to steal 14 handguns from his store and should not have been on the streets when the teen allegedly killed Walgreens clerk Olga Marie Calderon.
Williams allegedly took a bus to Melrose Park in Chicago, where the gun store is located, in May armed with a hammer. The gun store owner said Williams smashed the front glass at least 20 times before breaking in and taking 14 handguns. He was quickly arrested and charged as a juvenile even though he was two months away from his 18th birthday.
“That’s a pretty heinous crime,” the gun store owner told CBS 2. “These weren’t hunting guns. He wasn’t stealing to feed his family. These were likely going somewhere very bad.”
“I was kind of enraged. It’s like, here’s this kid that broke into a gun store and stole several firearms,” the owner said of Williams being charged as a juvenile. “Just because he was caught, it doesn’t lessen the severity of the crime.”
Williams was released from police custody, but ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. In August, the gun shop owner told CBS 2, Williams allegedly violated the conditions of his electronic monitoring agreement. Yet for some reason, the court ordered the bracelet be removed and the Cook County State’s Attorney didn’t object, CBS 2 reported.
After the monitoring bracelet was removed, Williams allegedly robbed two Walgreens stores in Chicago. Four days after one of those robberies, he returned to the store and allegedly stabbed 32-year-old clerk Calderon 10 times. Calderon died from her injuries.
CBS 2 <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/09/09/suspect-prepared-to-kill-walgreens-clerk-in-wicker-park-prosecutors/">reported</a> Wednesday on court documents related to the stabbing. Surveillance footage purportedly shows Williams stab the victim and then “calmly” walk out of the store with the knife, through the parking lot, and out of view. Prosecutors in the case alleged Williams had a change of clothes stashed nearby that he changed into before walking home. Police and home cameras allegedly show him walking home in this different outfit and throwing his bloody clothes in some bushes near a house.
“You can clearly see the Defendant’s face and the blood stain on his pants,” court documents read, according to CBS 2.
Police found the knife they believe killed Calderon, and a second knife.
“Prosecutors say recovered gloves with cuts in them also helped identify Williams. Officers said when they arrested him he had a cut on his hand. His mother told police she took him to the hospital to get stitches after the murder. She claims her son told her he cut his hand on a fence,” CBS 2 reported. “Officers also executed a search warrant of Williams’ residence where they say they found a pair of shoes matching those worn in the videos and a shoe box containing packaging for a knife of the same brand and model number as the knife found when officers canvassed the area of the Walgreens.”
Williams’ public defender said in court that his client suffers from schizophrenia. Williams’ bail has been denied.
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A University of Rhode Island history professor, writing about the alleged killing of a Trump supporter by Antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, wrote, “Reinoehl killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.”
Reinoehl <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-da-antifa-supporting-gunman-appeared-to-be-targeting-counterprotesters-allegedly-stalked-victim">allegedly gunned down</a> Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a member of a group called &#8220;Patriot Prayer&#8221; that showed up to counter-protest at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Reinoehl was later killed in a confrontation with U.S. Marshals who were trying to arrest him for second-degree murder.
Portland&#8217;s District Attorney released a charging affidavit, which, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portlands-antifa-gunman-appeared-to-target-victim-police-say">according to Fox News</a>, noted that Reinoehl &#8220;appeared to be targeting the victim prior to the shooting,&#8221; that he had deliberately armed himself for the protest in case of an interaction that turned violent, and that he &#8220;allegedly hid in a parking garage, waiting for Aaron &#8216;Jay&#8217; Danielson, 39, and another Patriot Prayer member.&#8221;
The Rhode Island University professor, Erik Loomis, initiated the conversation wherein he made the incendiary comment with a <a href="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/09/why-was-michael-reinoehl-killed">blog post</a> in which he wrote:
<blockquote>Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him Well, now the cops have killed him. I am extremely anti-conspiracy theory. But it’s not a conspiracy theory at this point in time to wonder if the cops simply murdered him. The police is shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors.</blockquote>
Loomis continued by referencing a tweet by historian Manisha Sinha, whom he described as “hardly a conspiracy theorist herself.” Sinha had tweeted that Reinoehl “deserved to be arrested and tried in court, not killed by a motley of federal law enforcement. This seems like a hit job, an extra judicial killing ordered by Trumpsters.”
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Whether you disagree with Michael Reinoehl&#39;s tactics, he deserved to be arrested and tried in court, not killed by a motley of federal law enforcement. This seems like a hit job, an extra judicial killing ordered by Trumpsters. When you get rid of the rule of law, you get fascism <a href="https://t.co/hAqstbGCxx">https://t.co/hAqstbGCxx</a>
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In the comments below Loomis’ blog, one commenter protested to Loomis, “&#8217;Erik, he shot and killed a guy.” Loomis replied, “Reinoehl killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.”
Another reader asked, “What&#8217;s so great about assassinating a rando fascist? And in the absence of a sound affirmative justification, it should be easy to envision the drawbacks.”
Loomis answered, “What&#8217;s so great about assassinating random slaveholders, said liberals to John Brown.”
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721235/University-professor-says-wrong-moral-perspective-Antifa-killing-fascist.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported that Loomis had made prior comments indicating his hostility to Republicans, including: “Once Republicans figured out COVID was going to affect people of color and the poor disproportionately, they stopped caring about doing anything about it.” In May 2018, he titled a blog post, “Republicans: The party of ethnic cleansing in multiple nations,” ranting, “Republicans aren&#8217;t just happy with ethnic cleansing in the United States. The Israeli apartheid state is right up their alley too.”
The Daily Mail added that in 2016, Loomis &#8220;argued that people should not think of Fidel Castro &#8216;in terms of simplistic moral judgments.&#8217; Loomis claimed the Cuban strongman &#8216;an inspiration for billions of people around the world seeking freedom from colonial overlords&#8217; and was &#8216;a tremendously complex person who attempted to rebuild a society around ideas of justice.&#8217; In August 2015, Loomis called Israel &#8216;the 21st century version of the white colonialist settler state,&#8217; and said Israel &#8216;continues committing horrifying violence against the indigenous people in its way.&#8217;”
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Two parents in Russia asked a truck driver to take their two young daughters to a babysitter. The girls later claimed the truck driver touched them inappropriately, leading the parents to track down the driver, rape him with a metal pipe, and then beat him with it.
Valeria Dunaeva, 25, is the mother of the three-year-old who picked up the two girls. The two told her Chikvarkin “had touched them below the waist,” police said, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8673621/Innocent-trucker-raped-metal-pipe-vigilante-parents.html">according to the Daily Mail</a>. Dunaeva became enraged after the accusation and told 33-year-old Sergey Chabin, the father of the 10-year-old girl. The parents called three male friends to find Chikvarkin and attack him.
“They found the man who previously gave a lift to the children,” a police source told Znak, a Russian newspaper. “First, he was raped in the anus with a metal pipe. Then they smashed his head with the same pipe, breaking his skull.”
Chikvarkin’s friend – an aunt of Dunaeva’s ex-husband who had babysat the children – was injured in the attack as well while she tried to defend her friend. Chikvarkin was still alive after the attackers left but later died from his injuries. One of Chikvarkin’s friends told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the truck driver “just wanted to help by giving the kids a lift, but he was killed,” according to the Mail. The friend added that Chikvarkin “would never harm children.”
The driver, 48-year-old Dmitry Chikvarkin, is believed to be innocent, the Daily Mail reported. Police said they believe the two girls, aged 10 and three, lied about Chikvarkin touching them as a “joke.” Police made the determination after interviewing both children, suggesting it was the older girl who made up the claim.
The parents, Dunaeva and Chabin, along with an alleged accomplice, have been arrested and charged with “murder with special cruelty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy,” according to reports. Police are still looking for the other men who participated in the murder.
The four men involved face potential life sentences, the Mail reported, while the woman only faces up to 20 years in prison, yet another example of how the criminal justice system treats women differently than men.
The case is also another example of the consequences faced by those falsely accused of sexual assault. Chikvarkin was murdered, but many falsely accused men end up committing suicide. One of the most prominent cases in the past few years involved Jay Cheshire, who hanged himself after he was falsely accused of rape. A year after Cheshire died, his mother committed suicide in the same way.
Then there are the men that spend decades in jail for rapes they never committed. The most recent example comes from New York, where Rafael Ruiz finally had the charges against him drop. Ruiz was released from prison earlier this year after spending 25 years in prison for a 1985 sexual assault conviction for which he was innocent. Ruiz is one of the hundreds of men who have been helped by the Innocent Project.
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On Monday, the California Supreme Court threw out the death penalty sentence for Scott Peterson, who was convicted of murdering his 8 ½ months pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son in 2002 and was sentenced to death in 2005.
Justice Leondra Kruger wrote, “Peterson contends his trial was flawed for multiple reasons, beginning with the unusual amount of pretrial publicity that surrounded the case. We reject Peterson&#8217;s claim that he received an unfair trial as to guilt and thus affirm his convictions for murder,” but added, “Before the trial began, the trial court made a series of clear and significant errors in jury selection that, under long-standing United States Supreme Court precedent, undermined Peterson&#8217;s right to an impartial jury at the penalty phase.&#8221;
“Jurors may not be excused merely for opposition to the death penalty, but only for views rendering them unable to fairly consider that penalty in accordance with their oath,” Kruger continued, as the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-24/scott-peterson-death-penalty-overturned">Los Angeles Times</a> noted. “As the present case demonstrates, an inadequate or incomplete examination of potential jurors can have disastrous consequences as to the validity of a judgment.”
“Peterson, now 47, also claimed on appeal that he couldn&#8217;t get a fair trial because of the massive publicity that surrounded his case, even though his trial was held nearly 90 miles away from his Central Valley home of Modesto to San Mateo County, south of San Francisco,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/scott-petersons-death-sentence-in-murder-of-pregnant-wife-overturned-by-california-supreme-court?fbclid=IwAR11QbAUq3GbYC39MW_zRzUfF4kwb0ALu7dDgrOJcK4aNLvN33OLq5DIHDo">Fox News</a> reported.
On Christmas Eve, 2002, Peterson called Laci’s mother Sharon Rocha, asking if his wife was with her, claiming he had spent the day fishing but that when he returned home his wife’s car was in the driveway.
What followed was a massive hunt for Laci; law enforcement pursued nearly 10,000 tips. At first, Peterson was not under great suspicion from Laci’s family, but that changed after a massage therapist named Amber Frey informed police she had dated Peterson. She then made numerous phone calls <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/19/peterson.frey.transcript/index.html">talking with Peterson</a> while police recorded their conversations. Frey, a single mother, told police that Peterson told her on December 9, two weeks before Peterson&#8217;s disappearance, that he was a widower.
In 2017, Frey <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/amber-frey-remembers-recorded-calls-scott-peterson-shaking/story?id=49763587">recalled the conversations</a> she had had with Peterson, saying, &#8220;Seeing this woman, knowing she&#8217;s missing [and] she&#8217;s pregnant … Being a mother &#8230; at that point, it wasn&#8217;t about me. It was about finding this woman.&#8221;
On April 13, 2003, a couple walking their dog found the decomposing body of an unborn male child in Richmond Point’s Isabel Shoreline park; the next day someone found the body of a pregnant woman, wearing beige pants and a maternity bra, on the eastern shoreline of the San Francisco Bay. On April 18, 2003, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA">DNA</a> tests showed the bodies belonged to Laci and her unborn son, whom she and her husband had said would be named Conner.
“Laci Peterson&#8217;s head and parts of her limbs were missing and plastic tape was wrapped around the neck of her child, according to the full autopsy and coroner&#8217;s photographs exclusively seen by ABCNEWS,” ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90600">reported</a> in 2006. Forensic pathologist Dr. Brian Peterson said during Scott Peterson’s double murder trial that though the two bodies washed ashore within days of each other, Conner’s was more intact because he was protected by Laci’s uterus, as the <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-PETERSON-TRIAL-Pathologist-Baby-was-2693350.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported.
Peterson has always said he is innocent.
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On Friday, August 14, 3-year-old Trinity Randolph and her father, 21-year-old Brandon Waddles, became the latest victims of Louisville, Kentucky’s violent crime wave.
Over the weekend, Rapper Master P (real name Percy Miller) said he would pay for Randolph’s funeral. Miller has provided philanthropic efforts in Louisville for the past 14 years, the Louisville Courier Journal <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/08/16/louisville-family-mourns-trinity-randolph-killed-double-homicide/5594515002/">reported</a>.
“This a 3-year-old innocent girl that’s gone from her family, from her future, somebody who could have come out of the community and be the next president, doctor, lawyer, teacher,” Miller told the outlet on Sunday. “This is sad.”
Randolph, at just three years old, was described by one of her aunts as a “technology genius” who already knew how to make videos on TikTok and YouTube. She could also FaceTime other family members.
&#8220;She was just 3 years old,&#8221; said Valerie Randolph, Trinity’s great-grandmother. &#8220;It takes a mean, cold, selfish-hearted person to take a little 3-year-old&#8217;s life.&#8221;
Trinity’s grandfather, Tyronn Howlett, told media outlets on Friday that the little girl was outside playing in her “Frozen” dollhouse when she and her father were shot. Louisville Police haven’t released any additional details or said whether they have any leads or suspects yet.
Trinity and her father were the 96th and 97th homicides in Louisville this year. At this rate, the city will more than double the number of homicides it faced in 2019, which saw 56 homicides total. While the crime rate is rising, the media is quick to discount the role violent protests have played in recent months following the police-involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd. Floyd died after officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.
Since then, protests and riots have erupted across the country in major cities including Louisville, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland, and Seattle. Violent crime has risen in cities where allegedly peaceful protests have taken place, such as Chicago and New York City. Louisville, too, has seen an increase in violent crime.
In early July, WAVE <a href="https://www.wave3.com/2020/07/07/days-shooting-victims-louisvilles-violent-crime-continues-spike/">reported</a> the city had seen a 40% increase in murders and a 107% increase in non-fatal shootings over the same period in 2019. The increase started back in March when much of the country shut down over fears of the coronavirus pandemic. Another notable increase occurred after the George Floyd protests began. A full 40% of 2020’s shootings in Louisville occurred after the riots started through the beginning of July.
“The same notable increase can be seen since civil unrest began on May 28. Since that date, 40% of the year’s shootings have occurred, meaning out of the 257 shooting victims, 102 of them were shot within the last six weeks,” WAVE reported on July 7. “Out of the 67 homicide victims, 21 of them, or 30%, were also killed in those 40 days.”
While many across the country have wanted to defund police departments even as violence spikes, Louisville&#8217;s latest budget commits resources to law enforcement.
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Tragedy in Princeton, Texas, as authorities discovered the body of an infant in a five-gallon bucket of tar.
Police responded to a tip of a possible unreported death of a child at the home of 42-year-old Roland Grabowski and his 41-year-old wife Donna, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/texas-couple-charged-after-infant-found-dead-in-bucket-of-tar/">reported</a>. Police went to the home but the couple wasn’t there, apparently having traveled to Dallas.
When police were able to question the Grabowskis, the couple apparently refused to cooperate and told “numerous lies” about the newborn’s whereabouts, according to the <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/three-week-old-infant-found-dead-bucket-of-tar-collin-county-couple-arrested/287-5d046a6f-77f1-4622-a3d5-d9db037cca69">arrest warrants</a> obtained by WFAA. They were arrested on child endangerment charges at that time.
Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner told the outlet that the couple claimed they found their baby boy, Micah, dead in their bed on the morning of July 29. They alternatively claimed their baby was staying with a family friend. Donna also told police that she gave birth to Micah at Medical Center of McKinney, but detectives found no records of her being there or a live birth.
“There was an attempt to deceive us as to what had happened and the whereabouts of their child Micah,” Skinner told WFAA.
The arrest warrants show the couple even tried to get a friend to tell police that “your baby is ours.”
“Quick in and out,” the text allegedly read. “They just need to see.”
The arrest warrants also explained that the couple claimed to friends that Micah died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Police obtained a warrant to search the Grabowskis’ home and discovered Micah in a five-gallon bucket of tar in a shed behind their home. By the time he was found by police, Micah would have been three weeks old.
&#8220;They took the child and wrapped him in a blanket and submerged him into a five gallon bucket of tar and put him in a shed behind the residence,&#8221; Skinner told WFAA.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in this business over 30 years and I&#8217;ve seen a lot of crazy things but this is the first time I&#8217;ve found a dead infant in a bucket of tar&#8230;and hopefully the last,&#8221; Skinner added.
The couple was arrested on multiple felony charges, “including tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair human corpse, abusing a corpse without legal authority, and abandoning or endangering a child,” WFAA reported.
The outlet added that Roland has a criminal record with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
“He was sentenced previously for aggravated sexual assault of a child, burglary of a habitation, and possession of controlled substances. Grawbowski [sic], according to TDCJ records, is registered as a sex offender,” the outlet reported.
An autopsy conducted on Micah is still pending, The Dallas Morning News <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/08/12/collin-county-parents-facing-felony-charges-after-baby-found-dead-in-bucket-of-tar-authorities-say/">reported</a>. The couple could face more charges.
An attorney for Donna couldn’t be reached by the News, though the lawyer was contacted after business hours.
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California authorities set a convicted murderer loose to create more space in state prisons because of the coronavirus.
Terebea Williams, 44, served about 20 years of a 84-year sentence for murder before state authorities let her out of prison as part of an effort by the California government to free up space inside prisons and reduce the risk of coronavirus spread among inmates, according to <a href="https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/07/30/murderer-terebea-williams-coronavirus/">CBS Sacramento</a>.
In 2001, Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the kidnapping and death of 23-year-old Kevin Ruska Jr. Williams held Ruska at gunpoint and forced him into the trunk of her car where she shot him in the abdomen. She then drove him 750 miles to Washington state, tied him to a chair in a motel room, and left him with one leg free so he could stomp for help. He was dead by the time someone found him.
“It’s appalling to me everything that’s been allowed to happen. I don’t think for one second she’s going to walk out there a changed person, she’s not,” said Karri Phillips, Ruska’s cousin.
“And for this to come down, for her to walk, I don’t even know why, to this day, why my son is dead,” said Kevin Ruska, Sr., the victim’s father.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is in the process of releasing thousands of inmates to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among prison <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-demanding-california-free-all-prisoners-arrested-for-trespass">populations</a>. The CDCR has outlined criteria that allow an inmate to be eligible for early release.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-plans-to-release-roughly-8000-inmates-back-into-california-over-coronavirus">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>The CDCR will release prisoners in three stages. The state will begin releasing prisoners with 180 days or fewer left on their sentences who have not been convicted of a violent crime or are registered or required to register as a sex offender.
In the second stage, inmates age 30 and older with less than a year left on their sentences will be eligible for release if they are being held in one of eight prisons with “large populations of high-risk patients.” For the third stage, prisoners deemed at high risk of the coronavirus will be released as long as they are not convicted of a violent crime, required to register as a sex offender, or serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.</blockquote>
“This is serious stuff and requires a seriousness of purpose. People are just saying just release thousands and thousands of people,” California Gov. <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/newsom-orders-another-california-lockdown-bars-restaurants-churches-gyms">Gavin Newsom</a> (D) said at the time the initiative was announced. “Each and every one of these cases are sobering, challenging, and there’s a deep responsibility that comes with this job, but a sense of deep urgency as well to decompress the system in a judicious and thoughtful way.”
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The CDCR told The Daily Wire in a statement that Williams qualified for release under a code “which allows the release of an incarcerated person in the case of an emergency that endangers their life.”
“In an effort to address the COVID-19 pandemic, CDCR has implemented emergency measures to protect all those who live and work in our state prisons, and the community at-large, in a way that aligns public health and public safety,” a CDCR spokesperson told The Daily Wire. “Terebea Williams was released from CDCR custody on July 29 under Government Code section 8658 regulations, which allows the release of an incarcerated person in the case of an emergency that endangers their life. Prior to the release of an offender, CDCR’s Office of Victim and Survivor Rights and Services makes notification to registered victims and provides referrals to community-based mental health and wellness resources.”
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Between July 2017 and June 2018, seven veterans at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center died from severe hypoglycemia or extremely low blood sugar. It wasn’t until June 2018 that a medical doctor reported concerns, noting that several of the patients who had died were not diabetic.
A nursing assistant, Reta Mays, was removed from the facility’s Ward 3A after the concerns were raised, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/former-nursing-assistant-va-hospital-west-virginia-pleads-guilty/index.html">reported</a>. On Tuesday, Mays pleaded guilty to eight felonies in federal court, including seven counts of second-degree murder and “one count of assault with intent to commit murder.”
The <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/07/14/us_v_mays.pdf">plea</a>, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and obtained by CNN, stated that Mays began working at the Clarksburg, West Virginia, hospital in June 2015 and “was responsible for measuring patients’ vital signs, documenting patients’ intake and output, testing patients’ blood glucose levels with a glucometer, and sitting one on one with patients who required close observation.” Mays, however, was “not qualified [nor] authorized to administer medication, including insulin.”
The patients who died under Mays’ care were not close to death and were not in the intensive care unit, CNN reported. An internal investigation was launched, leading to a referral for a criminal investigation.
&#8220;Immediately upon discovering these serious allegations, Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center leadership brought them to the attention of the VA&#8217;s inspector general while putting safeguards in place to ensure the safety of each and every one of our patients,&#8221; a spokesperson for the medical center said at the time.
In a statement released Tuesday, the VA Office of the Inspector General called the murders “tragic and heartbreaking,” according to CNN.
&#8220;This case is particularly shocking because these deaths were at the hands of a nursing assistant who was entrusted with providing compassionate and supportive care to veterans. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims,&#8221; the IG statement said. “Within a matter of days of learning of the suspicious deaths at the facility, VA OIG agents identified the defendant as a person of interest. Working with medical facility leaders, the defendant was immediately removed from patient care. Without critical investigative actions being taken so expeditiously, additional lives could have been lost.&#8221;
The plea states that Mays “willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and with malice aforethought,” killed the seven veterans. A total of 11 deaths at the facility were investigated, with Mays admitting to committing seven of them.
The suspicious deaths weren’t reported until August 2019, when the death of Felix Kirk McDermott, 82, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/27/va-deaths-authorities-investigating-string-10-patient-deaths/2132186001/">came to light</a>. McDermott’s body was exhumed in October 2018 and a medical examiner determined he died due to an injection of insulin even though he was not diabetic. Felix’s death is one of those Mays pleaded guilty to committing.
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Former VA Hospital Nursing Assistant Pleads Guilty To Murdering Seven Veterans With Insulin Injections

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At Monday’s White House Press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, disgusted with the flurry of questions from reporters that ignored violence around the country and instead focused on the Confederate flag, finally had had enough. Concluding the briefing, she said levelly:
<blockquote>Finally, I’d end with this: I was asked probably twelve questions about the Confederate flag. This president’s focused on action. I’m a little dismayed that I didn’t receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend. I didn’t receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week and over the last seven days, shootings skyrocket by 142%. Not one question.
I didn’t receive one question about five children who were killed. And I’ll leave you with this remark by a dad; it broke my heart. A dad of an eight-year-old lost in Atlanta this weekend: “They say Black Lives Matter? You killed a child; she didn’t do nothing to nobody,” was his quote. We need to be focused on securing our streets; making sure no lives were lost, because all black lives matter. That of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old girl.</blockquote>
McEnany wasn’t making anything up about the number of relentless questions regarding the Confederate flag. Here are some of the questions that were fired at her:
1. Why is the president so supportive of flying the Confederate flag?
2. Does he believe NASCAR should fly the Confederate flag and why don’t they fly it here?
3. What is the president’s position? Does he think NASCAR made a mistake by banning the Confederate flag?
4. Let’s drill down on the Confederate flag. Does he think it was a mistake for NASCAR to ban it?
5. Does he think NASCAR’s ratings are down because they banned the Confederate flag?
6. Does he think his supporters should not take the flag to Trump rallies?
7. Has he considered banning the Confederate flag from Trump rallies?
8. You were saying we were taking the tweet out of context, but this is what he (Trump) tweeted: “Has Bubba Wallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers &amp; officials who came to his aid, stood by his die, &amp; were wiling to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another hoax? That &amp; flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever.” How are we misinterpreting that?
9. On the Confederate part, why would the president not praise NASCAR for removing the Confederate flag, particularly given the history of that flag, the symbol that it has for African-Americans, and also what it represents in terms of just the treasonous acts and the insurrection against the republic?
10. What exactly does the president see as positive or uniting about the Confederate flag?
11. You’ve said there’s no opinion on the Confederate flag. Why can’t this White House unambiguously state whether or not it supports displays of he Confederate flag?
12. And what about making a statement on the Confederate flag? Are we capable of doing that?
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At least one has been killed in a shooting inside the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle, dubbed “CHAZ” or “CHOP,&#8221; on Saturday, police confirmed.
Officers collected shell casings and other evidence on scene inside the &#8220;no-cop&#8221; zone and are currently investigating the incident.
&#8220;Videos recorded Saturday morning show volunteer medics scrambling to help the purported victims after Seattle Police Department radio dispatchers received multiple reports of three to six gunshots around 2:20 a.m.,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/police-investigating-shooting-inside-seattles-no-cop-chaz-zone-1512330?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1592661180">Newsweek</a> reported Saturday afternoon. &#8220;People involved in the incident were seen fleeing the scene north from 10th Avenue and East Pine street in the city&#8217;s Capitol Hill autonomous protest zone, also called CHAZ.
Last week, Seattle Police abandoned the East Precinct that fell within the six blocks commandeered by the protesters, which include far-left Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters.
&#8220;Police arrived on the scene on foot and prepared with anti-protest gear at the border of the citizen reclaimed protest zone,&#8221; Newsweek reported. &#8220;East Precinct police radio chatter said officers who arrived on the scene were collecting shell casings and evidence, and the second victim had a gunshot wound to the arm and chest.&#8221;
&#8220;Local videographers from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WWConverge/videos/297548387941384/?v=297548387941384" rel="nofollow">Converge Media first reported</a> that one of the victims was transported by non-ambulance locals to the Harborview protest camp staffed by medical volunteers,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reported the man was dead when he arrived at the volunteer medical camp. Video showed several people on the street announcing that one of the victims was dead in front of the Rancho Bravo restaurant at 10th and Pine Street.&#8221;
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Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-chief-challenges-democrat-mayor-says-rapes-robberies-occurring-in-chaz-with-force-unable-to-respond">Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best</a> said abandoning the city’s Third Precinct to the radical protesters was “not my decision,” stating that “rapes, robberies,” and other violent crimes are occurring in the left-wing utopia.
“You should know, leaving the precinct was not my decision. You fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stand on that line,” Best addressed officers last Thursday, according to <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/seattle-police-chief-not-able-124718101.html">Yahoo! News</a>. “Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community.”
As previously noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-documentarian-goes-behind-scenes-at-chaz-speaks-to-leader?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">The Daily Wire</a>, one of the protest leaders at CHAZ, Jaiden Grayson, told documentary filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-protesters-interviewed-were-stealing-because-its-slavery-money-we-should-kill-them-police-bes-if-anybody">Ami Horowitz</a> that police and the prison system should be “abolished,” not defunded. She also emphasized that “by any means necessary” is not just a slogan but a promise.
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“Every single day that I show up here, I’m not here to peacefully protest,&#8221; Grayson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-documentarian-goes-behind-scenes-at-chaz-speaks-to-leader?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">said</a>. &#8220;I’m here to disrupt until my demands are met. You cannot rebuild until you break it all the way down. Respond to the demands of the people, or prepare to be met with any means necessary. It’s not a slogans, it’s not even a warning. I’m letting people know what comes next.”
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UPDATE: On Saturday afternoon, the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/06/20/homicide-investigation-inside-protest-area/">Seattle Police Department blotter</a> posted the following updated information:
<blockquote>Homicide detectives are investigating following a fatal shooting that occurred early Saturday morning at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street. One man was declared deceased at the hospital and another male is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
On June 20th, at approximately 2:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired in Cal Anderson Park. This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims. Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.
Officers responded to Harborview and were informed that one of the victims, a 19-year-old male, had died from injuries. The other victim, also a male, unknown age, remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect or suspect(s) fled and are still at large. There is no description at this time.
Homicide detectives responded and are conducting a thorough investigation, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances.</blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-chief-challenges-democrat-mayor-says-rapes-robberies-occurring-in-chaz-with-force-unable-to-respond">WATCH: Police Chief Challenges Democrat Mayor, Says Rapes, Robberies Occurring In ‘CHAZ’ With Force Unable To Respond</a>
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CHAZ: Shooting Leaves One Dead Inside Leftists’ No-Cop Utopia; Police Investigating

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Between 1974 and 1986, a series of murders, rapes, and burglaries terrorized California. In 12 years, the man known in different parts of the state as the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the Visalia Ransacker committed at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes and 100 burglaries.
Like so many famous serial killers, the Golden State Killer taunted victims and police by making creepy phone calls and writing letters.
The serial killer and rapist would break into suburban couples’ homes at night, tie up the man and stack plates on his back, and then say he would kill both of them if he heard the dishes fall while he raped the wife.
On April 24, 2018, U.S. Navy veteran and former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was charged with crimes associated with the Golden State Killer – more than 30 years after the crime sprees ended. DNA linked DeAngelo with the murders and rapes. He was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder and charges relating to kidnapping and abduction attempts. He couldn’t be charged for the numerous rapes due to the statute of limitations at the time.
The Associated Press has now <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/golden-state-killer-suspect-expected-to-plead-guilty/">reported</a> that DeAngelo is expected to plead guilty in exchange for a plea deal that allows him to avoid the death penalty. He is expected to plead guilty on June 29 and be sentenced once the surviving victims and relatives of his murder victims have a chance to confront him in court.
Ron Harrington, whose younger brother and sister-in-law were murdered by DeAngelo in August 1980, said they would accept either punishment.
“We are so totally supportive of the death penalty and yet we are totally supportive of this decision to let the Golden State Killer plead to life without possibility of parole,” Harrington said.
“Almost 40 years have passed and literally some of the victims have passed away, there are foundational issues from an evidentiary standpoint,” he added. “You’ve got victims who have now passed away, how are they going to testify?”
The AP reported that “District attorneys in six counties that had been seeking the death penalty issued a joint statement that did not address that issue, but noted the scope of crimes that started more than four decades ago and involved dozens of victims across 11 counties over more than a decade.”
“Victims of a crime are entitled to finality in their criminal cases, as well as the expectation that the person convicted of committing the crime will be punished,” the DAs wrote in their statement, adding that they “are working closely with the victims in this case to ensure their statements are considered by the Court prior to sentencing.”
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The ‘Golden State Killer’ Terrorized California in The 1970s And 80s. The Man Accused Of The Crimes Is Expected To Plead Guilty.

Between 1974 and 1986, a series of murders, rapes, and burglaries terrorized California. In 12 years, the man known in different parts of the state as the

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Walter Ogrod was one of those death row inmates who wasn’t just convicted of murder but convicted of the murder of a 4-year-old girl.
On Friday, however, Ogrod walked out of prison an innocent man, his conviction overturned. Judge Shelley Robins New vacated Ogrod’s conviction and his sentence after hearing “clear and convincing” evidence that the Pennsylvania man did not kill the little girl back in 1988.
A hearing was held over Zoom to determine Ogrod’s fate, Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/walter-ogrod-freed-prison-conviction-vacated-1509217">reported</a>. A new trial had been ordered for his case, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to decline retrying him. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told media outlets he expects the case to be dismissed within weeks. Osgrod was released Friday on bail.
His family was waiting for him outside the prison, NBC 10 Philadelphia <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/after-2-decades-on-death-row-wrongfully-convicted-man-will-be-set-free/2421261/">reported</a>. Ogrod told the outlet he “was glad to get out.”
James Rollins, one of Ogrod’s attorneys, told Newsweek that Ogrod’s case is not that unique.
&#8220;This innocent man and his family lost almost thirty years that they should have spent together. Instead, that irreplaceable time together is gone, lost to a system that keeps making the same mistakes,&#8221; Rollins said in a statement.
Rollins went on to say:
This is a case where no forensic evidence tied Mr. Ogrod to the crime, where eyewitness descriptions didn&#8217;t match Mr. Ogrod, and where police coerced a false confession from Mr. Ogrod which got many of the facts incorrect about the crime he allegedly committed.
The state presented false testimony, unconstitutionally withheld exculpatory evidence, and relied on unreliable jailhouse informant testimony to convict an innocent man of a brutal murder.
NBC 10 reported that 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn was found dead in a cardboard box in 1988 after she went missing. Ogrod, Horn’s neighbor, was charged with her murder four years after she was found dead. Ogrod confessed, but claimed he was coerced, a claim with which followers of the case agree. Ogrod later recanted his confession. Five witnesses also said the man they saw with the cardboard box didn’t look like Ogrod.
Ogrod was nearly found not guilty during his first trial, but one juror announced he disagreed with the finding before the foreman could announce the verdict. A mistrial was declared. Ogrod was found guilty during a second trial based on testimony from an unreliable jailhouse informant.
The Philadelphia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit re-investigated the case and discovered errors.
“Prosecutors claimed Ogrod beat Horn with a weight bar. But her injuries showed she died of asphyxiation, not from blows to her head. And a sample of male <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philly-da-reviewing-new-dna-evidence-in-infamous-1988-child-murder/2278932/">DNA found at the crime scene did not match Ogrod&#8217;s</a>, his attorneys said in January,” NBC 10 reported.
Last month, Horn’s mother, Sharon Fahy, filed a motion urging Ogrod to be released.
&#8220;My daughter is never coming home but I wanted justice for her, not simply a closed case with an innocent person in jail. Two families have already been destroyed,&#8221; she wrote in the brief.
Ogrod, 55, contracted the coronavirus while in prison, but appears to have recovered.
It is still unknown who actually killed Horn.
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He Spent 23 Years On Death Row For A Murder He Didn’t Commit. His Conviction Was Just Overturned.

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A woman previously convicted of murdering her husband but successfully appealed down to a lesser charge of manslaughter will now be able to fully inherit his estate instead of the couple’s children.
In 2010, Sally Challen went to visit her estranged husband with a hammer in her purse. As her husband, Richard, ate lunch, Sally beat him to death with the Hammer, leaving a note on his body that said, “I love you.” She then fled the home and was later arrested and convicted for his murder.
Sally and Richard were married for three decades, the Mirror <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sally-challens-abusive-husbands-final-21056853">reported</a>. At her murder trial, Sally repeatedly admitted to murdering her husband but wouldn’t say why except that she had suspected he was seeing another woman and after stalking him discovered a voicemail from another woman asking Richard to dinner. Her niece, Dalla, said that Sally “hacked into his email and asked neighbours who he had been at the house with. I suspect she was stalking him.&#8221;
The couple had already separated at the time of the murder. Richard moved out and began dating again, while Sally struggled to move on and eventually begged Richard to take her back. Sally told police after the murder, “I wasn&#8217;t thinking &#8216;I&#8217;m going to go and kill Richard&#8217;. I was thinking I&#8217;m going to go there and there&#8217;s a possibility, depending on how it panned out.&#8221;
Dalla, the Mirror reported, was convinced there was more to Sally’s reasoning behind killing her husband, so she reached out to Justice For Women, a feminist organization that defends women who killed their partners and claim to have been abused.
After Sally met with the organization, she started claiming she had been emotionally abused throughout her marriage to Richard. From the outside, friends described the marriage as “old fashioned” and said Sally was “all about servicing Richard.” The couple lived in luxury as Richard owned a second-hand car garage. The couple lived in a wealthy area of Surrey with their two sons, James and David, who each attended private school.
Most of the accusations are from Sally herself, with little corroborating evidence. She claimed that when she got a part-time job at the police federation, Richard ordered her to start paying the couple’s bills and purchasing all their food. Her brothers said they noticed that over the years she started voicing her opinion less and less, though no suggestion is made that this was because of Richard. Sally also claimed that after a male friend in Los Angeles hugged and kissed her while she was vacationing with Richard in 1998, her husband pushed her “into the bedroom and forced sex on me. He was brutal and said nothing.&#8221;
David, one of the couple’s sons, said that whatever happened in America “was never talked about but it was always clear you never crossed my father.&#8221;
Sally claimed she could never refuse Richard when he wanted sex and would be told to “get ready” when he wanted it, an indication that she should clean herself. At some point, Richard started refusing to have sex with Sally, and she began trying to tempt him with raunchy outfits. She started stalking her husband and checking his phone and pockets to discover he was frequenting a brothel, which upset her. She even called the cops after the brothel was raided to report her husband as a visitor. She told police on that call that her husband was dead, but Richard took the phone and told police things were fine.
In 2009, Sally left Richard, but soon regretted the move as she was unable to cope with single life. Richard went on dates and seemed to have no issue moving on. Their son David lived with Sally while James lived with Richard.
Sally eventually begged Richard to take her back. He agreed, but wrote up a post-nuptual agreement that allegedly demanded Sally quit smoking, only visit him once a week, never interrupt him, and go through with the divorce. She was also told that she would only receive £200,000 in the event they separate again, which amounted to a fraction of Richard’s assets. These odd and conflicting alleged demands hurt Sally, she said, and on that day in 2010 she went to his home with a hammer in her purse. Richard allegedly demanded she travel in the rain to get ingredients for his lunch, and Sally suspected he wanted her out of the house to talk to one of his lady friends.
&#8220;There was so much going on in my head. I knew he was seeing another woman,” Sally said in a statement during her appeal process. &#8220;I looked at his computer and could see he was sending emails to various women.”
She would later admit, “I don&#8217;t know why I did it, I don&#8217;t know why I had the hammer in my bag.”
Their son David cleaned their father’s blood from the kitchen and said he only learned of the alleged abuse after Richard died. Even though the adult children <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50673081">admitted</a> in a BBC documentary that it was “obviously a struggle to let her be our mum again,” they were happy when she was released from jail in 2019. She had been convicted to 22 years back in 2011. Sally began her appeal by claiming “coercive control,” after it became a crime in England and Wales in 2015. The BBC described coercive control as “a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim.”
The media covering Sally’s story have positioned her as an abused wife who fought back without acknowledging the lack of evidence for her claims.
Sally was able to appeal her murder conviction and take a lesser charge of manslaughter. She was released after a judge determined she had served enough time for Richard’s death.
This week, Sally was also granted her request to inherit Richard’s estate, after a judge waived the rule that barred people who killed their spouse’s from inheriting their estate.
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She Murdered Her Husband With A Hammer. Now She Gets To Inherit His Estate After Claiming Emotional Abuse.

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Florida law enforcement officials say that a man who had been arrested in March on drug charges, and subsequently released from prison due to fears over the coronavirus, committed a murder the day after he was released from prison.
&#8220;According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested 26-year-old Joseph Edward Williams for a homicide that happened in Tampa, Florida on March 20,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbc12.com/2020/04/15/fla-man-accused-murder-day-after-he-was-released-jail-due-covid-concerns/">WBTV</a> reported. &#8220;He is facing a second-degree murder charge along with resisting an officer with violence, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.&#8221;
Williams, who was arrested on March 13 on drug charges, was one of more than 100 inmates that were released from the Hillsborough County detention facilities on March 19 due to fear that the coronavirus could be spreading throughout the prison population.
&#8220;But now, deputies say, he has been arrested for a murder that took place March 20 along Ash Avenue in Tampa’s Progress Village neighborhood,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/sheriff-drug-suspect-committed-murder-1-day-after-being-released-from-jail-in-coronavirus-purge">Fox 29</a> reported. &#8220;Deputies said the victim was found injured on the street, and he later died in the hospital.&#8221;
In announcing Williams&#8217; arrest, which happened on Monday, Sheriff Chad Chronister said, &#8220;There is no question Joseph Williams took advantage of this health emergency to commit crimes while he was out of jail awaiting resolution of a low-level, non-violent offense. Every murder, every violent crime, especially those involving a gun, is a sickening example of the worst in our community, especially at a time when our community is working relentlessly to fight against the spread of this deadly COVID-19.”
Last month, Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and subcommittee chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA) demanded that Attorney General William Barr release as many prisoners from custody due to the spread of the coronavirus.
&#8220;We call on you, in the most urgent of terms, to do the right thing and exercise [authority to modify sentences of prisoners who present ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’] and immediately move to release medically-compromised, elderly, and pregnant prisoners in the custody of the [Bureau of Prisons],&#8221; the Democrats wrote. &#8220;In addition, we urge that you use every tool at your disposal to release as many prisoners as possible, to protect them from COVID-19.&#8221;
The two Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-demand-doj-release-as-many-prisoners-as-possible-over-coronavirus">said</a> they had a problem with a memo from Barr that stated that low and minimum security facilities should be prioritized and those who were convicted of serious offenses should not be released. The two Democrats stated [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>Your memorandum specifies that priority should be given to inmates in low- and minimum-security facilities and that “serious” offenses should weigh more heavily against consideration for home detention. These limitations, unfortunately, beg the question of what you do with individuals who are at a high risk for contracting COVID-19 who are not in low- or minimum-security facilities, who have been convicted of serious offenses, or who have high PATTERN risk scores. We urge you to consider that even individuals in these categories should be assessed for release because they may be elderly or particularly vulnerable. Pregnant prisoners, in all circumstances, should be released to home confinement forthwith. We further urge you to assess the risk of contracting COVID-19 of every individual in BOP custody, regardless of the type of institution in which they are housed, the seriousness of their offense, or the potential recidivism risk they may present. If BOP decides to keep these individuals detained, what specific provisions are being made for those among them who are at high risk for contracting COVID-19? What plans are being made to communicate information to these individuals, their attorneys, and their loved ones, about the plan for their care behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic?</blockquote>

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Inmate Released Over Coronavirus Fears Murdered Someone After Release, Police Say

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In the middle of March, just weeks after filing for divorce from her husband, 51-year-old Gretchen Anthony disappeared. Soon, Gretchen’s friends and acquaintances began receiving odd text messages from her claiming she had the coronavirus.
CBS 12 <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/mystery-of-missing-jupiter-woman-began-with-suspicious-text-messages">reported</a> that on March 25, a witness called the Jupiter Police Department in Florida to say she received a  “suspicious text message” from Gretchen claiming to have COVID-19 and being held by the “CDC” after she was released from Jupiter Medical Center. The witness said she had received the text two days earlier and that she hadn’t made contact since.
An officer went to Gretchen’s home, but nobody answered the door. The officer also contacted Jupiter Medical Center and was told no one named Gretchen Anthony had been a patient. Officers would later Gretchen’s car with a purse inside in the hospital parking lot.
Another witness also reported receiving a strange text from Gretchen on March 24. This witness said the text claimed Gretchen had an “acute” case of COVID-19 and was “sedated” at a CDC-approved task force in Belle Glade. Notably, there is no CDC office in Belle Glade, Florida.
Jupiter Medical Center also told police that it wasn’t protocol to send someone elsewhere and sedate them.
This second witness was a friend of Gretchen’s husband David and had access to the couple’s home. He entered the home with police but didn’t find Gretchen. The friend also told police that Gretchen stopped sharing her location on March 21, which was unlike her. He also said the texts he received from “Gretchen” didn’t sound like things she would write – they sounded more like things David would write. He showed police officers some of David’s text to prove his point.
Two other witnesses told police they also received strange text messages from Gretchen and were concerned about her. One said David had “issues” and worried he had done something to Gretchen. Police couldn’t reach David by phone and he wasn’t home. A neighbor told them she hadn’t seen David since March 24 when he picked up his dog and said he was moving to Costa Rica.
Police then listed Gretchen as an “endangered missing adult.” Using cellphone tracking data, they found that Gretchen’s phone had pinged near Pensacola, Florida. A clerk told police David tried to sell a bag of jewelry there on March 25, but they wouldn’t buy it. The clerk believed one of the rings must have belonged to Gretchen. The clerk also gave police video footage of a man matching David’s description as well as his truck from that day.
On March 26, one of the previous witnesses called police to say her mother received a text from “Gretchen” saying she was on a ventilator at Palms West Hospital. Police were told by that hospital that Gretchen was not a patient.
More from CBS12:
<blockquote>When police went to Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s home March 26 to investigate further, a neighbor asked them if they were here investigating &#8220;the attack that occurred Saturday morning,&#8221; according to the arrest report. The neighbor told them between 6 and 6:20 a.m., she heard a woman&#8217;s voice let out &#8220;a blood-curdling scream.&#8221; She said she hears a woman yelling, &#8220;No! No it hurts,&#8221; from either the patio or garage area of Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s home.
Police say another neighbor said he also heard the screams and saw David Anthony&#8217;s truck parked on the road, with the bed loaded up and covered with a tarp. He also noticed that on Monday morning (March 23), someone was cleaning something inside Gretchen Anthony&#8217;s closed garage, as there was water &#8220;mixed with an unknown chemical&#8221; coming out of the garage door and into the alley. A third neighbor gave police surveillance video, showing what appears to be David Anthony&#8217;s truck driving to and from the home around that time.</blockquote>
Police later found cleaners and a rag in the kitchen as well as towels with a “reddish substance” on them in the washing machine. “There was a broken glass frame upstairs on the landing and what looked like small droplets of blood on the wall in the master bedroom,” the outlet reported.
The garage had been locked with a key broken off inside the lock, so police knocked in the door and found the garage floor was wet with large bleach stains leading out to the driveway.
One of the previous witnesses said David had answered her question about if he had heard from Gretchen by saying he “&#8221;ran into her randomly Sat am. She mentioned something about going to the beach to ground herself bc she wasn&#8217;t feeling well. Then she proceeded to tell me I should &#8216;plead insanity&#8217; on some bogus police charges I&#8217;ve been dealing with.&#8221;
David was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico and charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping. Gretchen still has not been found.

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Wife Disappears. Sketchy Coronavirus Texts Led Police To Arrest Her Husband.

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It was January 27 when 11-year-old Gannon Stauch disappeared from his Colorado Springs home. He missed school that day, and his stepmother, Letecia Stauch, reported him missing shortly before 7 p.m. that night
Letecia’s story about what happened the day Gannon disappeared kept changing, and despite her interviews with the media where she denied she had anything to do with the little boy’s disappearance, she was arrested a month after she reported him missing and charged with his murder.
Letecia initially said that Gannon left their home around 3:15 p.m. on the day he disappeared to walk to his friend’s house, but when he didn’t come home for two hours, she reported him missing, The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/colorado-cops-say-they-dont-think-missing-11-year-old-gannon-stauch-was-abducted">reported</a>. A neighbor would later tell police his home-security video showed Letecia and Gannon leaving their family home that morning and Letecia returning home alone hours later.
Two days after she reported Gannon missing, Letecia told investigators that a man named Eguardo held her at gunpoint, raped her, and apparently hit her on the head so she blacked out the day Gannon disappeared, according to an arrest affidavit first <a href="https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/04/03/letecia-stauch-gannon-murder-arrest-affidavit-leaked/">reported</a> by CBS Denver. She suggested this same man abducted Gannon. On the day Leticia made this new claim, she was two hours late to meet with investigators and brought written notes. Investigators asked Leticia to take a sexual assault forensic exam, but she refused. Surveillance video from a neighbor also showed no one entering the Stauch home at the time she claimed to have been attacked. More from CBS Denver:
Between Jan. 25-28, investigators determined Letecia viewed websites associated with searching for a job in Florida and California. Letecia’s Google search history on Jan. 25 includes, “I’m over doing all the work for my step kids and their mom doesn’t help,” and “one day people will wish they treated you differently.”
On her cell phone, investigators said Letecia searched, “are there any free money to move away from bad situation.” On the morning of Jan. 27, investigators said Letecia searched on Google, “my son burned the carpet how do I fix it?”
In her discussion with Al [Gannon’s father], Letecia, without prompt, provided explanations for why blood would be found on Gannon’s bedroom wall along with an alibi for why she was in the area where the particleboard was recovered. Investigators said information about blood evidence in the home and on the particleboard had not been released publicly at that time.
A search of court records in North Carolina reveals Letecia has a criminal past. Investigators said she was convicted after a trial for communicating threats, a misdemeanor. She was also sentenced to 45 days confinement and 18 months of probation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Al Stauch is a member of the National Guard and was deployed between January 25 and 28.
Leticia also gave investigators reasons why Gannon’s blood would be found in the home and garage, saying he cut his foot in the garage on Al’s woodworking tools.
In reality, police wrote in their affidavit, it is believed that hours before she reported him missing, Leticia killed Gannon in his bedroom, stuffed his body into her car, and then waited until the next morning to dump his body off the side of a highway. His remains were found on March 18 – after Leticia was arrested and charged with his murder – under an overpass in Florida, though police are unsure how he ended up there.
At a press conference announcing the charges against Leticia, Al and Gannon’s biological mother, Landen Hiott, expressed a desire for justice to be served.
“Justice will be served because my boy does not deserve this,” Hiott said, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/letecia-stauch-stepmom-of-missing-boy-gannon-stauch-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-reports-say">according to</a> The Daily Beast. “She will pay 100 percent for this thing that she did,” Hiott added, “because I want to live on this Earth knowing that justice will be served for my little boy.”
Al read a statement during the press conference that said:  “The person who committed this heinous, horrible crime is one that I gave more to anyone else on this planet, and that is a burden that I will carry with me for a very long time.”

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She Reported She Was Raped By Her Step-Son’s Kidnapper. It Turns Out She Actually Killed The Boy.

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The man who helped kill 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002, known as the D.C. sniper, has married.
Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, was married during a ceremony at Red Onion State Prison in southwest Virginia, the Associated Press <a href="https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/10/lee-boyd-malvo-dc-sniper-gets-married-prison/">reported</a>. “Carmeta Albarus, who has served as an adviser and mentor for Malvo since testifying at his 2003 trial, confirmed the wedding took place earlier this month,” the outlet reported.
“Over the past 17 years, he has grown despite his conditions of confinement,” she told the AP. “He has grown into an adult, and has found love with a wonderful young lady. … It was a beautiful ceremony.”
The bride has not been identified
Back in October 2002, Malvo and John Allen Muhammad terrorized the nation’s capital and neighboring states of Virginia and Maryland during a terrifying killing spree that lasted three weeks and killed 10 people while critically wounding three more. Even before the sniper spree, the pair killed others during a crime spree that began in February 2002 as the two crossed the country. They murdered and burglarized people from Washington state to Louisiana before heading up the Washington, D.C. metro area for the sniper spree.
Muhammad, who was 41 at the time of the killings, was executed in 2009 for his role. Malvo was sentenced to life in prison. Earlier this year, Virginia passed a law that allowed criminals who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crime to seek parole after serving 20 years in prison, the AP reported. This new law would have made Malvo eligible for parole in 2024.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-snipers-case-dismissed-by-supreme-court">reported</a>, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2017 vacated three of Malvo’s life sentences in Virginia. The decision came years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders violated the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment. More from The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>The Supreme Court heard Malvo’s case last fall. Attorneys for Malvo, now 35, argued that he should be resentenced in light of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on juvenile offenders. The Supreme Case on Wednesday dismissed Malvo’s case.
“The one-sentence order, which was expected, comes two days after Virginia’s governor signed a bill making juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life imprisonment eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Both sides told the Supreme Court there was no reason to continue the case,” CNN reported.</blockquote>
Though Malvo received some relief in Virginia, he won’t be released from prison anytime soon. He still has three life sentences in Maryland for the people he killed there during his 2002 crime spree. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) released a statement saying the case was about more than just Malvo.
“He has counts in the state of Maryland so it would be a long time. But it’s not so much about him. It’s about the hundreds of people who are incarcerated right now and were tried as juveniles and we want them to have an opportunity for a second chance,” Northam said in the statement.

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The Sniper Who Killed 10 People In Washington, DC Gets Married. In Prison.

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Seventeen years ago, the Washington, D.C. metro area was terrorized for three weeks by sniper fire, which claimed the lives of 10 people and critically injured three others.
The culprits were John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the attacks. Muhammad was executed on November 10, 2009, while Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders violated the Eight Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/26/politics/supreme-court-lee-boyd-malvo-case-dc-sniper/index.html">reported</a>. In 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the three life sentences Malvo received in Virginia based on the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling.
The Supreme Court heard Malvo’s case last fall. Attorneys for Malvo, now 35, argued that he should be resentenced in light of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on juvenile offenders. The Supreme Case on Wednesday dismissed Malvo’s case.
“The one-sentence order, which was expected, comes two days after Virginia&#8217;s governor signed a bill making juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life imprisonment eligible for parole after serving 20 years. Both sides told the Supreme Court there was no reason to continue the case,” CNN reported.
Just because Malvo’s sentence in Virginia was reduced does not mean he will be getting out of prison anytime soon. He still has life sentences from Maryland for the people who were killed there during the 2002 attacks. More from CNN:
<blockquote>At oral arguments, Virginia argued that the sentence of life without parole could stand because Malvo&#8217;s sentence was discretionary, not mandatory.
Justice Elena Kagan had questioned, however, whether Virginia properly considered Malvo&#8217;s age. She pointed out that the 2012 decision, which she wrote, could be summarized in two words: &#8220;youth matters,&#8221; and that a sentencer must treat children differently from adult offenders.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, repeatedly questioned a lawyer for Malvo on the meaning of the court&#8217;s precedents and how they would impact cases where the judge or jury did not just consider a sentence of life without parole.</blockquote>
In response to the Supreme Court dismissing the case, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) released a statement saying the case is about more than just Malvo.
“He has counts in the state of Maryland so it would be a long time. But it’s not so much about him. It’s about the hundreds of people who are incarcerated right now and were tried as juveniles and we want them to have an opportunity for a second chance,” Northam said in the statement.
Fox 5 DC <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-sniper-case-dismissal-prompts-statement-from-virginia-gov-northam">reported</a> that former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, who prosecuted Malvo for his crimes in Maryland, made sure people knew Malvo was not getting released thanks to the latest ruling.
“Six people were murdered in Montgomery County and should have their day in court, was that we were worried and concerned about what might happen in Virginia down the road. And this has happened, so even in the event that Malvo were to be paroled, he would then have to serve six life sentences in Maryland,” Gansler said in his own statement, adding that Malvo is unlikely to be paroled and the Maryland sentences mean he’ll probably never leave prison.

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D.C. Sniper’s Case Dismissed By Supreme Court

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In 1984, a woman was murdered at Torrey Pines State Beach in California. Claire Hough was just 14 years old when she was found dead on the beach after being strangled to death and having one of her breasts severed.
Her murder went unsolved for decades.
In 2012, police detective Michael Lambert joined the cold-case homicide unit and ordered DNA tests on Hough’s body, which couldn’t be conducted 28 years earlier. DNA from a man named Ronald Tatro was found in multiple places on Hough’s body. Tatro, however, drowned in 2011 and therefore could not be charged.
Another man’s DNA was also found in a small quantity of the vaginal swab taken during the girl’s autopsy, the San Diego Community News Group (SD News) <a href="http://www.sdnews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Jury%2Bawards%2B%25246M%2Bto%2Bwidow%2Bof%2Bman%2Bfalsely%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bmurder%2B-%2520&amp;id=27703145">reported</a>. The DNA belonged to Kevin Brown, who worked as a crime lab employee at the time the sample was handled. SD News reported that crime lab employees testified at a trial for Brown’s widow’s wrongful death lawsuit against city police that in 1984, male lab employees “used their own dried semen samples as a control method” and did not always wear gloves when handling samples or thoroughly cleanse scissors.
Lambert, the detective working Hough’s cold case, wrote an affidavit asking a judge to authorize a search of Brown’s possessions. That affidavit did not mention that contamination could have resulted in Brown’s DNA being found on the victim. Deputy City Attorney Catherine Richardson said Lambert had been told contamination was ruled out as a possible reason for why Brown’s DNA was discovered on the victim, and he was never told contamination was possible.
&#8220;He had a distinguished career as a detective. He was an officer for almost 30 years,&#8221; Richardson argued at the trial.
She also said Brown never mentioned the fact that crime lab employees used their own semen as a control factor in tests when he was questioned about his DNA being found on Hough. When questioned Brown did say he had sex with a young girl in the early 1980’s who may have been named Claire. He said the sex occurred in a hotel, but police considered him a suspect. Brown allegedly called his old roommates from that time period to see if they remembered anything but then called back asking them not to tell police about anything that happened back then.
Police seized 14 boxes from Brown’s home, including family photos and recipes, a 1937 yearbook, and other mementos that had nothing to do with the case. Brown’s wife, Rebecca, who filed the wrongful death lawsuit, didn’t get the boxes back until after Kevin committed suicide in 2014. Just two days after his suicide, San Diego Police sent out a press release saying Brown had been linked to Hough’s murder. Rebecca filed the wrongful death lawsuit in 2015 and was awarded $6 million in damages for the way her husband had been treated. The individual officers included in the lawsuit – Lambert and detective Maura Mekenas-Parga, were only ordered to each pay $1 in damages.

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On Wednesday, former National Rugby League (NRL) player Rowan Baxter, 42, reportedly doused his estranged wife Hannah Baxter, 31, in gasoline and set her and their three children on fire to be burned alive in a car.
Hannah reportedly made it out of the car while engulfed in flames screaming that Rowan had poured gasoline on her as she fought to save her babies. Rowan, it has been reported, left the accident and died of self-inflected knife wounds in an apparent suicide.
Rowan, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8019461/Ex-footballer-shared-footage-play-fighting-kids-Brisbane-car-inferno-left-four-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR2yPLk9lJr0aislqsM6AzI7ExkCYSxb_TrpQOJsbaQqH-iUCvT7Y6diSh8">The Daily Mail</a>, set the family&#8217;s white SUV aflame on Wednesday morning at Camp Hill, in Brisbane, Australia. &#8220;Baxter survived the blast but stabbed himself in the chest on the sidewalk next to the car as locals desperately tried to free the children trapped inside,&#8221; the report outlined.
All three children, 6-year-old Aaliyah, 4-year-old Laianah, and 3-year-old Trey, perished on Wednesday. Hannah was brought to a hospital, but later succumbed to her injuries.
One witness, reported The Daily Mail, claimed Hannah screamed, &#8220;he&#8217;s poured petrol on me.&#8221;
&#8220;The former New Zealand Warriors player stabbed himself after the blast and begged first responders not to put out the flames on the car,&#8221; the report said.
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Det. Insp. Mark Thompson called the scene &#8220;horrific,&#8221; while speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/19/three-dead-including-children-after-car-allegedly-set-alight-in-brisbane">The Guardian</a> reported.
“It will be a horrific thing for police and emergency services to deal with in the coming days,” said Thompson.
“We’ve all got different experiences in life. I’ve seen some horrific scenes, this is up there with the [worst] of them,&#8221; he added.
“Preliminary investigations indicate the woman was driving the car and the man was in the front passenger seat prior to the incident,&#8221; a police report said, noting, &#8220;A man who assisted in rescuing the woman from the vehicle sustained burns and was transported to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital for treatment.”
According to The Daily Mail, Rowan posted a video to Facebook of himself playing with his children about a month ago:
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Baxter uploaded to his Facebook account about a month ago, the three children giggled as he took turns grabbing them by the neck and pushing them away from him.
Trey, who was still in diapers at the time, eventually grew tired of the game after having his head slammed into a bed and ran off camera in tears.
Baxter laughed and continued playing with his two older girls.
The video was met with messages of support from his friends, who said he was teaching his children to have a thick skin.
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Hannah and Rowan ran a gym together called <a href="http://integr8fit.com.au">Integr8</a> and even created a video, as seen below, to advertise their services. According to reporting from The Guardian, the gym stopped operating within the last few months.
&#8220;By far the best trainers I have ever experienced,&#8221; reads a review posted to the gym&#8217;s website from a woman named Erika. &#8220;They are so passionate about what they do and care so much about their members, and for their member to reach their goals.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve been at Integr8 for 4 months now and love it more every week. From the moment I joined the welcome was warm and the vibe was like nothing I’d experienced,&#8221; praised another reviewer.
&#8220;Rowan and Hannah are top notch athletes with a wealth of knowledge in various areas of fitness,&#8221; a review from Sima said.
WATCH:
<iframe title="Introduction video" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzQRczkRvp8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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