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The owner of a luxury $1.8 million Hamptons vacation rental where two Maryland sisters died in a fire sparked by a shoddy electrical job has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. Peter Miller, 56, admitted to building an illegal outdoor kitchen that overloaded the electricity system of his $ 8,000-per-week pad in Sag Harbor — killing Jillian Wiener, 21, and her 19-year-old sister Lindsay as they vacationed with their terminally ill father in August 2022, Suffolk County prosecutors said Monday. His wife, Pamela, who managed the popular summer rental, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment.

On January 9, 1980, 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe enrolled at the University of Texas Austin School of Nursing. On the same day, at about 10 p.m., she was kidnapped about one block from her home while walking to a friend’s house after having her house sprayed for bugs. A witness to the kidnapping watched as a car stopped and the driver exited grabbing Susan in a ''bear hug,'' placed a coat over her head, and forced her into the car. The witness also said that the passenger door opened, but he did not see what the passenger did during the...

When the DNC delegates come to Chicago, they’ll be visiting the city that for more than a decade has experienced the most murders in the country. Chicago suffered 617 total homicides in 2023, marking the 12th year in a row it has led the country.And it will be 13 years in a row if Chicago’s 2024’s homicide numbers continue at their current pace. The below chart shows how the top five cities nationally for total homicides may change from year to year, but what always remains true is Chicago’s position at the very top – often the extreme outlier.That’s just...

A watchdog group is escalating its battle with the Justice Department over the FBI’s refusal to turn over files on Ashli Babbitt, the United States Air Force veteran shot and killed during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot over the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump. Judicial Watch, claiming a “cover-up,” on Friday filed a suit in federal court claiming that the FBI has twice refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act demands for any files it has on Babbitt and her husband Aaron. The FOIA lawsuit was filed with the U.S. District Court...

The Google engineer charged with murder last week admitted to beating his wife to death with his fist in their $2million Santa Clara home, court documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal. Police noticed that suspect Liren Chen’s right hand was ‘extremely swollen and purple’ and that he had blood on his clothing, legs, arms and hands, records reveal. When fire department personnel asked the 27-year-old how he hurt his hand, he replied, ‘I punched my wife,’ and told them it happened the prior day, records state. A friend of Chen told police he’d seen Chen with his wife Xuanyi Yu...

A man has been charged with murdering his Google Engineer wife after he was found 'staring blankly' into space with her dead body nearby. Police arrested Liren Chen, 27, who also works for Google, on January 16 at a home on Valley Way, Santa Clara. He has been charged with murder but his arraignment was postponed after he was hospitalized. Chen was found 'spattered with blood' with an 'extremely swollen and purple arm' kneeling outside a bedroom where his wife was 'deceased on the floor'. His wife, thought to be Xuanyi Yu, had 'severe blunt force injuries to her head',...

Two Rhode Island men have been charged in the death of 53-year-old Dale Mooney, a lifelong New England Patriots fan who died after an altercation at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in September. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey released a statement Thursday announcing John Vieira, 59, and Justin Mitchell, 39, were charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct following Mooney’s death Sept. 17. At the time, several videos circulating online appeared to show Mooney involved in an altercation with Miami Dolphins fans. Police said Mooney was transported to Sturdy Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Days after Mooney’s...

A federal narcotics agent accused of blowing through a stop sign and hitting and killing a bicyclist while on a surveillance mission in Salem has successfully moved the criminal case from state to federal court. In federal court, he can assert immunity from prosecution on the criminal charge of negligent homicide, a defense not available to him in state court. Lawyers for the state objected to removing the case from Marion County Circuit Court. They argued that the agent’s alleged “grossly negligent actions” were not a necessary part of his federal law enforcement work. U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane...

(Table of serial killing crime statistics by Race by Decade between 1900-2020. The second Race column, Black, increases from 23% of serial killings in 1900 to 54% in 2020.) The Radford/FGCU Annual Report on Serial Killer Statistics: 2023 was finally published!“The purpose of this annual report is to provide the most accurate statistics possible about serial killers and their victims.”Key findings: Since 1990, the majority of serial killers were Black (50.9%) followed by White (36.3%), Hispanic (10.6%), Asian (1.9%), and Native American (.4%). In all decades, the percentage of Black serial killers exceeds the percentage of Black citizens in the...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The victim whose remains were discovered inside a suitcase floating in Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified. The body found last month was 23-year-old Gabriel Gomez Raymundo, the Oakland Police Department announced Wednesday. Raymundo's body was found inside a dark-colored suitcase located on the edge of Lake Merritt near Lakeshore and Hanover Avenues on Oct. 31. Authorities have not revealed how long the suitcase had been in the water, but they have classified the case as a homicide. Oakland police investigators have limited details about the victim and are appealing to the community to share information such...

A 5-year-old boy died after being stabbed by his twin brother during a fight Wednesday near Santa Cruz, officials said. Deputies from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office arrived on a report of a stabbing at the 200 block of Tucker Road, in an unincorporated area in Scotts Valley near Highway 17. Officers on the scene discovered that a 5-year-old had stabbed his brother with a “small kitchen knife,” the sheriff’s office said in a Thursday statement. When law enforcement arrived, they said they learned the twins had been fighting, “as siblings sometimes do,” the sheriff’s department said in the...

This is the shocking moment a 17-year-old shot a 14-year-old dead on the streets of DC while his mother stood by and did nothing - before he was caught bragging about the shooting online. Surveillance footage shows the teen, believed to be Lorenzo Thompson, 17, in a black hoodie and balaclava raising a gun outside the Crown gas station at 14th and Euclid streets NW in Columbia Heights at about 11:30pm on November 3. The woman with red braids and wearing a white coat, believed to be Thompson's mother, watches on but does nothing to diffuse the situation.

A man who was convicted in California's first fentanyl-related homicide case was sentenced to 15 years to life behind bars. This comes as Vicente David Romero, 34, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the fentanyl-poisoning death of Kelsey King. King's death may have happened back in June 2020, but the pain appeared to have not subsided one bit for the victim's father, who spoke in court Friday. "How do I tell her children that, ‘Your mother is dead because a worthless piece of (Profanity) wanted to have sex with her and slipped her poison that killed her within three...

The FBI has finally released homicide data for 2022. In 2021, there was a huge decline in the number of police departments participating. The FBI made good on their promise to boost the number again in 2022. The 2022 includes data from 83.2% of law enforcement agencies. This is up from only 69.7% in 2021. However, it is still less than the 88.9% that participated in 2020. Homicide Victims: Black: 55.9% White/Latino/Other: 41.1% Asians: 1.5% American Indians: 1.4% Hawaiian Natives: 0.2% Note that “White” includes Latinos, North Africans, Middle Easterners, Central Asians, and others. Basically the term “Whites” means anyone...

A well-respected Republican legal activist was fatally stabbed in the neck inside his New Hampshire home this weekend, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. Lawyer Alexander Talcott, 41, was found dead inside his Durham house early Saturday, the state attorney general said, according to NBC 10 Boston. The death has been ruled a homicide.

Our culture keeps trying to convince us that it's perfectly normal for minors to receive puberty blockers at a young age if they know deep down that they're transgender and don't identify with the gender they were "assigned at birth." Anyone who dares to speak out against the idea that minors should be given hormone therapy or even surgery to affirm they gender identity is called a bigot, transphobe, or worse. Author J.K. Rowling has been on the receiving end of threats and attacks after she declared that children's transgender procedures are "one of the worst medical scandals" in the...

The homicide rate for older teenagers in the United States and the suicide rate for those in their early 20s rose during the pandemic to the highest it has been in at least 20 years, according to new research. A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed homicide and suicide rates among those ages 10-24 from 2001-21. The largest annual increase in homicide rates for those aged 15-19 was a 38 percent increase from 2019-20. In 2020, the rate of homicide deaths among older teenagers was 12.3 per 100,000, a significant jump from the...

A white Florida woman has been arrested for shooting dead her black neighbor 'through her front door' while confronting her after a bitter two-year dispute over her children playing outside. Susan Lorincz, 58, is accused of killing Ajike 'AJ' Owens in front of her 10-year-old son after the mother-of-four went to confront her over attacking her kids on Friday. Lorincz was charged Tuesday with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault, Marion County Sheriff's OfficeA white Florida woman has been arrested for shooting dead her black neighbor 'through her front door' while confronting her after...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo — Three 18-year-old suspects, who are high school seniors, were arrested in connection to a string of rock-throwing incidents at vehicles including the senseless attack that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests Wednesday morning. Bartell was killed on April 19 around 10:45 p.m. after a rock was thrown into her windshield while she was driving northbound on Indiana Street in Jefferson County.

Despite findings of increased suicide risks and homicidal ideation linked to antidepressants, the widely used drugs have been spared from the discussions around mass shootings. Is it time we reevaluate the national conversation along with the real history surrounding this class of drugs?