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The Golden Years Murders is the name given to an unsolved series of murders in the West End of Richmond, Virginia, from 1990 to 1996. During this period, at least thirteen elderly women were murdered in a similar manner, leading local authorities to suspect that they were dealing with a serial killer. Since then, multiple suspects have emerged ...
In the state of Virginia, the common law felony murder rule is codified at Code of Virginia §§ 18.2-32, 18.2-33. [2] This rule provides that anyone who kills another human being during the perpetration or attempted perpetration of arson, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, robbery, burglary or abduction is guilty of first degree murder.
Virginia had historically convicted and executed numerous black men accused of raping white women; for most of its history, only blacks were sentenced to death for rape. [8] Since Virginia started using an electric chair in 1908, all 45 of the men sentenced to death for rape had been black men convicted of raping white women. [7]
A judge denied bond for Naresh Bhatt, who is accused of killing his 28-year-old wife Mamta Kafle Bhatt in Virginia, at a court hearing on Friday after prosecutors revealed disturbing new evidence ...
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A 28-year-old woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly doused another woman in gasoline while she sat on a couch and set her on fire. Savannah Renee Adams is accused of killing ...
When two kids found a woman dead in the Virginia woods under carpet in 1986, it set off a decades-long search for her killer. Now, DNA evidence from another woman’s death in the ‘80s has led ...
In November 2016 the Virginia Attorney General instructed the Norfolk Police to videotape all interrogations and confessions in cases relating to homicides. [1] On March 21, 2017, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe granted absolute pardons to the Norfolk Four. These cleared their names and removed them from the sex offender and felon registers.