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Cops: Teen Killed Dad for Eating Last Sno-Ball Monday, June 13, 2005 McCOMB, Miss. — Authorities say a disagreement over a frozen snack led a McComb teenager to fatally shoot his father and threaten his mother. Curtis McCray Jr., 16, was arrested and charged with murder last week after allegedly shooting Curtis McCray Sr. with a shotgun from about 20 feet away, the Pike County Sheriff's Department (search) said. Investigator David Haywood said the shooting occurred after the teen was punished for being involved in a minor wreck, and the boy became enraged when his parents returned home eating Sno-Balls...

Teen not indicted for killing his father By Deanna Boyd Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - Casey Morgan didn't plan on killing his father. He just wanted him to stop. But Arch Jack Morgan, 43, had been drinking and was angry. Morgan was mad that he had been arrested outside his brother's Fort Worth home the day before. He was enraged that his brother, fed up with his behavior, had told him that he was no longer welcome at his house. "The whole day we were gathering up all of his stuff in the house, and we put it all...

HUMBOLDT, Kansas, May 06, 2005 -- Last week, police say a 10-year-old boy shot and killed his adopted father. The grisly murder took place inside their rural home near Humboldt in Allen County. Now a grieving widow and mother shares her feelings for her son. "Family, friends, anyone -- if he was needed, he was there -- a very dedicated father, said Debbie Hamlin about her husband Bob. After 21 years of marriage, Debbie says she is glad for the memories with Bob. She just wishes she could have more. Bob and Debbie adopted Debbie’s grandson when he was just...

BOULDER, Colo. — A 14-year-old girl who claimed she shot her father to death to help him commit suicide has been charged with second-degree murder.

Profile The Reinvestigator Marty Tankleff has spent the past fifteen years in prison telling anyone who’d listen he was wrongfully convicted of killing his parents. Can P.I. Jay Salpeter, a tough-talking former cop, finally prove it? By Greg Sargent Jay Salpeter, near the wooded area where he found what he believes is the Tankleff murder weapon.(Photo credit: Kyoko Hamada) Private Investigator Jay Salpeter inched his blue Mercedes SUV along a narrow road in affluent Belle Terre, a private community on Long Island’s North Shore, and stopped at a luxurious mansion overlooking the Sound. Here was the setting of one...

A retired city police officer was found dead in his Long Island home on Sunday, apparently slashed to death by a samurai sword, authorities said. The former policeman, Scott Nager, 51, was found dead by his wife, Laura at about 1 p.m., said Officer Al Prim, a spokesman for the Suffolk County police. Nager served on the city police force for 15 years, working as a patrolman in the 34th precinct, which includes Washington Heights and Inwood. He retired in July, 1996 because of a service-related injury, The New York Times reported. Suffolk county police said Laura Nager's son, Zachary...

A 10-year-old child accused of fatally shooting his father this summer has become a national poster boy for a controversial and unofficial psychiatric disorder: Parental Alienation Syndrome. Parents and others seeking formal recognition of the so-called syndrome have latched onto the death of 41-year-old Rick Lohstroh, who was killed on Aug. 27 outside his ex-wife's Katy home. After a bitter divorce in 2003, Lohstroh was picking up his two sons for a visit under a joint-custody agreement when the 10-year-old shot him from the back seat of the car, police said. Since then, advocates have pointed to Lohstroh's death to...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "God told me to." Philip Badowski made the comment in a recorded interview with police following the Dec. 2 slayings of Chester "Chet" Badowski Jr., 47, and Christine Badowski, 46. Prosecutors played the recording at Badowski's preliminary hearing Friday. General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon referred two murder and abuse of corpse charges to a grand jury and ordered Badowski held without bail. Lawyers for both sides declined to comment after the...

Man who killed parents diagnosed as mentally ill BY ELIZABETH LANGTON AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Bradley Calverley, who shot and killed his parents Monday and later was killed by a sheriff's deputy, suffered from mental illness that required his hospitalization two years ago, according to testimony by his former psychiatrist. Dr. Mark Unterberg of Dallas diagnosed Calverley, 42, with schizoaffective disorder and major depression, according to an April 2002 deposition obtained by The Avalanche-Journal. Calverley killed his parents, Harry and Darlene Calverley, early Monday morning after crashing his SUV through their Ransom Canyon home. Authorities said they have not determined what prompted the...

Man guns down parents in home Lake Ransom Canyon couple's son killed by police after fleeing scene BY P. CHRISTINE SMITH AVALANCHE-JOURNAL LAKE RANSOM CANYON — A sense of disbelief gripped this quiet community Monday after Harry and Darlene Calverley were slain by their son Bradley, who shot them after crashing his SUV through their home in the early morning darkness. He was later shot and killed by Lubbock County sheriff's deputies. Sue Keveryn, a Realtor at Lake Ransom Canyon, said Harry Calverley, 73, and Darlene Calverley, 63, were well-known and respected members of the scenic little town east of...

Teen says father berated him BUT WHY HE KILLED MOTHER IS A MYSTERY By Tom Lasseter HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER COLUMBIA - At the age of 16, Blake Walker shot his parents to death in their home last year, emptying the clip of a 9mm rifle, because he said he could no longer stand his father's constant criticisms about his life, friends and housework. In Adair Circuit Court yesterday, Walker, crying and shaking a little, apologized for the Dec. 8 murders. He loved his father, Walker said, but they never got along. In a statement he wrote for the court, Walker...

<p>COLUMBIA, Ky. – The sentencing of 17-year-old Blake Walker for killing his parents, scheduled for tomorrow, may bring closure to some, but others in this small college town say they have to know why it happened before they can get any peace.</p>

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — There is not much to distinguish the painting of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce from the countless other official portraits that line the corridors of the United States Capitol. The senator, who represented Mississippi in the late 1800's, is dressed in a dark, three-piece suit, a watch chain of gold stretched across his ample belly. His face bears a look of calm seriousness, befitting a man of power. There is, however, one thing that sets this picture apart: Senator Bruce is black. In a gallery populated almost exclusively by images of white men, the portrait of Bruce,...

<p>PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) -- A judge Thursday threw out the convictions of two teenage boys found guilty of beating their father to death with a baseball bat.</p> <p>The ruling by Circuit Judge Frank Bell was just the latest twist in a case that has already tested legal precedent.</p>

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The note at the scene hinted that the brutal slayings of the Police Department's fingerprint specialist and his beloved wife were a criminal's act of revenge. DNA evidence suggested otherwise. Friday morning, police arrested the 48-year-old daughter of Loyd and Agnes Courtney on a capital murder warrant in the Nov. 2 deaths of her parents. Deborah Pieringer, a homemaker and mother, is in the Mansfield Jail with bail set at $500,000. Authorities say the 5-foot-4, 250-pound woman repeatedly stabbed her parents with a knife and bludgeoned them, possibly with a frying pan and table leg. A note found at the...