Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A shocking series of murders stunned the rural California mountain town of Placerville in the 1980s. Authorities were under intense pressure to solve the cases, and for a while it seemed they did.
Officials opened a homicide investigation at California State Prison, Sacramento, after a fight between two inmates in January led to the death of 42-year-old Joseph D. Horne.
On June 24, the jury recommended that Merritt be sentenced to death. [33] The court upheld the jury's recommendation, and Merritt was sentenced to death on January 21, 2020. [34] On May 22, 2022, the case was looked at again on the Investigation Discovery docuseries Two Shallow Graves. The show features new suspects, witnesses, evidence, and ...
The long-unsolved 1986 killing of a young Southern California woman has been linked to a convicted serial killer who admitted the crime, authorities said Tuesday. DNA from the killing of Cathy ...
On April 19, 2021, Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed 26-year-old Latino man, died while under police custody by the Alameda, California Police Department. [2] [3] [4] In their initial report of the incident, the department reported that Gonzalez died after a "scuffle" and "physical altercation" resulting in a "medical emergency."
A convicted murderer who has been on California’s death row for 33 years must either be released or retried after a federal judge on Thursday approved the state attorney general’s request to ...
Stockton and Oakland police are working alongside several other law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, California Highway Patrol, local sheriff's departments, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A reward of $125,000 was issued for information leading to an arrest. A tipline was also set up.
A suspect in the confrontation that led to the death of a Jewish man who was injured during dueling Israeli and Palestinian rallies in California called 911 to seek medical help for the victim and ...