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BRATTLEBORO — The crime began and ended Monday. The court arraignment concluded Tuesday. But for residents shocked by this week’s violent death of a local social worker, questions linger. “There’s a wish we have when the unthinkable and tragic happens like this — to find a simple answer,” said Kurt White, vice president of outpatient programs at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital, the Brattleboro Retreat. “But this is not really that kind of thing. These are complicated and complex problems, and there are not simple answers.” And so, many southeastern Vermonters are struggling to process the death of Leah Rosin-Pritchard,...

Victim Angela Valle and "Grim Creepa."Facebook   The last words Angela Valle says she heard before her boyfriend drove an ax into her skull were a chilling omen she can’t forget.  “You all are not getting out of this,” Jerry Brown said, clutching the 3-foot hatchet as he stood over Valle and her childhood best friend Savannah Rivera, while they sat on the sofa in Valle’s Bushwick apartment. “It’s me, it’s me, what is wrong with you?” Valle tried to reason.  “Shut the f–k up. Just shut the f–k up. Sit on the floor,” Brown ordered, Valle recalled in her...

Loveless likely died around 1916 at age 46, the organization said. He appears to have been killed and dismembered. Before his death, Loveless had been arrested at least twice for bootlegging and escaped custody by sawing through jail bars, the organization said Around that time Clark County Sheriff Bart May said Loveless killed his wife with an ax and was incarcerated in what was then Freemont County. He escaped again, this time using a saw he hid in his shoe, the organization said. He was never seen again. About 12 years later, a mummified hand was found, along with an...

DNA and genetic genealogy have helped investigators solve a century-old Idaho mystery. Outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless was killed and dismembered in 1916 and buried in a shallow grave in Buffalo Cave outside Dubois. At the time, Loveless was wanted for escaping from a jail where he was being held for killing his wife with an ax. Loveless’ remains were found in the cave four decades ago—but not his head--and they remained unidentified until just recently. Lee Bingham Redgrave, a genealogist with the nonprofit DNA Doe Project, determined the remains belonged to Loveless after painstaking research that included constructing an elaborate...

Jury finds 24-year-old woman not guilty of first degree murder in death of her female lover's long-time boyfriend Amid a torrent of emotion, a Toronto woman accused of using an axe to bludgeon to death her lesbian lover's possessive boyfriend walked free from a downtown courtroom yesterday afternoon, acquitted of first-degree murder. The verdict from the seven-woman, five-man jury capped more than three days of tense deliberations. Ashleigh Pechaluk, 24, and her parents embraced tearfully before stepping out into the bright sunshine to face a bank of microphones and television cameras. Arrested the day of the murder, she spent more...

BREAKING NEWS Axe killer escapes jail By SUN ONLINE REPORTER A WOMAN who killed her husband with an axe walked free from court today.Wadanahalugeder Chandrasekera, 59, of Port Close, Bearsted, Kent, instead received a three-year community order at Woolwich Crown Court.The court heard she killed her husband Sarath Chandrasekera, 57, with 11 blows of an axe to his head on October 23 last year after discovering he had fathered a child with her niece. He had moved out of the family home six years earlier and returned that night to visit his son.The couple’s relationship deteriorated when Mr Chandrasekera moved into...